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The rumors have been bubbling under for the past few weeks about whether director Robert Rodriguez ( Sin City ) might be called upon to direct Deadpool , the planned spin-off from last year's X-Men Origins: Wolverine with Ryan Reynolds reprising the role of the "Merc with a Mouth" he played in that movie.

"Twilight" veteran Edi Gathegi has signed on to play the mutant known as Darwin in "X-Men: First Class."

During Comic-Con it was announced that Marvel would be teaming up with G4 to bring you 4 anime-style TV shows starring your favorite Marvel superheroes, the X-Men, Iron Man, Wolverine and Blade.

Nicole Sperling confirms deal is signed; role remains a mystery, but sources say he will play a villain.

James McAvoy has signed on to play a young Charles Xavier, aka Professor X, in "X-Men: First Class," which Matthew Vaughn is directing for Fox.

Fox is intent on prequelizing Marvel's mutants (thereby retaining the property rights) with X-MEN: FIRST CLASS. But with Bryan Singer returning only in a producer capacity, the studio is hot to get a qualified candidate in the director's chair. EW first floated the story that KICK-ASS director Matthew Vaughn was in talks to direct, but Heat Vision says he's already moved on (and after all the reported friction on the...

In an interview with Bryan Singer and producer Lauren Shuler Donner at the Los Angeles Times about the first two X-Men movies, the discussion veered to Singer directing X-Men: First Class and possibly even X-Men 4 .

Director of first two movies in franchise returns to help develop prequel depicting the teenage lives of the mutants.

The actor discusses the possible Japan storyline for the new film.

"X-Men" franchise producer Lauren Shuler Donner tells Slashfilm that there was no truth to a claim (later recinded) by actor Tim Pocock on this Twitter account the other week that the "X-Men: First Class" film was moving forward shortly.