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Friday, October 4, 2013 at 4:44PM 
JA from MNPP here, popping in for a quick sec to take the opportunity to hurrah the news that Aaron Taylor-Johnson has been officially announced to play the character of Quicksilver in the second Avengers movie from Mr. Whedon & Co. (Also I've posted all the good exploitative pictures of him at my own site before, and so posting this news over here at TFE gives me the chance to look for the fiftieth time at a current favorite picture. Va va va voom.)
Aaron's the second actor who'll be playing the role in the next year - because of rights complications Quicksilver can also show up in the X-Men movies, and so American Horror Story's Evan Peters is playing him in Bryan Singer's X-Men: Days of Future Past. That shouldn't prove too confusing for the world! Maybe eventually instead of one new Spider-Man every five years we'll have four different Spider-Men all at once? (Curse me for giving the suits in Hollywood any new horrible ideas.)
This news regarding Aaron comes a day after Samuel L. Jackson let it slip that Elizabeth Olsen's playing Scarlet Witch, aka Quicksilver's sister, in Avengers: Age of Ultron - that hasn't been offically confirmed, but I think they make for a killer pair and I hope that's how it susses out, anyway.
Reader Comments (5)
I do not get Aaron Johnson's appeal... beyond of course the physical but thta's easy to find in hollywood! Quicksilver is one of my all time favorite comic book characters and now he will be played by two different attractives, neither of which I am fond of. no fair!
that said i'm good with Elizabeth Olson even if that's skewing much younger than the rest of The Avengers cast. I don't know why they'd be worried about injecting youth at this point since they'll obviously just reboot it in a few years anyway.
I think it's odd that they are adding Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch for an Ultron story as they didn't really have much to do with Ultron. The Wasp and Hank Pym seem like much more appropriate characters to add to the cast (and original members to boot). Meh.
As for Aaron Johnson, I'm open minded (and that picture is... gah, words fail me). Elizabeth Olsen seems like a great choice for Scarlet Witch, though I haven't seen her in anything since MMMM.
I really like Aaron, but it's mostly a sexual attraction. He's not untalented, though. I really liked him in Anna Karenina and Kick-Ass. And Olsen is a weird choice for Scarlet Witch but I'll take it. She's fantastic.
Nat: Um...I think the idea here (with the MCU) is exactly AGAINST that. This'll probably be a free flowing universe where either 1. They recast the character and explain that they wave it away with a line of how they went through "radical gene therapy" or something or 2. They shuffle the character off to the side and move on to focus on other parts of the B or C list. So, if they're casting this young, I think the indication is that they're dead set AGAINST rebooting the continuity if possible.
Travis: As for Ant-Man, the casting would depend on which Ant-Man they want. For Pym: Though I know that, if Selvig is supposed to be referring to Pym in that story in Thor, though it's vague enough that that could get retconned, he's maybe a bit young, but I would LOVE to see Aaron Paul take a stab at him. Smart enough to convince as a scientist, but unstable enough to guide Pym through his more...unpleasant...moments while still retaining SOME sympathy. For Scott Lang: Nathan Fillion has said he "doesn't want to be Ant-Man", but if he's ideal for any of the three, it's this one, the morally upright ex-thief that got pulled back into the game due to his kidnapped and sick daughter. Hopefully they get a really good child actor as Cassie Lang, because she ultimately becomes a hero of her own right. For Eric O'Grady: Simon Pegg has pointed to a standee of Ant-Man with a bit of a smile on his face, and I really hope that means Edgar is also incorporating the third Ant-Man into his final result somehow. He's still a bit too cuddly looking for a fully convincing look at Pym, but he's aged in such a way that he looks a bit too bitter and angry to do Scott Lang, even if he nails the accent work.
Sad man: Agreed on Elizabeth Olsen, but I'm suspicious of casting the lead performer of Kick-Ass in the mainline universe.
Volvagia: I'm of the age where I still think of Pym as Yellowjacket (or even Goliath) rather than as Ant-man, but more to the point I mainly think of him as the creator of Ultron. I always felt his Ant-man identity was really the least interesting of his super-hero identities, which of course is the one they chose for the movie ;)
Nathan Fillion as a Scott Lang Ant-man with daughter Cassie reminds me of his father/daughter dynamic on Castle.