Kelsey Grammer in X-Men 3

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OK, this strikes me as rather strange considering his normal character, but Kelsey Grammer (Frasier Crane in Frasier) is playing Dr Hank McCoy AKA Beast! (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376994/)

OK, so I guess Beast is very much an intellectual, but I can't quite see Mr Grammer doing all of the climbing around

Can't wait for the film to come out only other thing I can think of that I want to see is Ice Age 2 over Easter!

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Oddly enough, I think this is quite good casting...I imagine they'll CG a lot of the clambering about. Although there is a nasty rumour floating around that Vinnie Jones is going to be involved in this (X-Men 3, as opposed to being Kelsey Grammer's stunt double or something )somehow....

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I think word on the street is he will be juggernaut



Although I could be wrong.

Incedentally I'm going to take this post as an oppertunity to announce I beat my housemates at Trivial Pursuit, don't ask me how I know PFO on medical notes of someone in A&E who suffered "a late night self inflicted injury" stands for "pissed and fell over", I just do, I've honestly not been reading the cards at night!

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Ahhhh, good old PaFO - I picked that one up through Trivial Pursuit and Abi (her sister's a nurse). There's another one that they use on CSI that's DFO - "done fell over" or something, they just dropped down dead.

Anyway, back to XMen.

Kelsey Grammer probably would be a good casting if Beast is all CG. Thinking back to the XMen cartoon (XMen, not XMen Evolution) the voice of Beast in that was fairly similar to a Frasier-type. Plus he managed to pull off being Sideshow Bob (Simpsons) and Stinky Pete (Toy Story 2).


As for Vinnie Jones, I hope not! *checks IMDB* yep, it's true. The film's in post-production and Vinni Jones is listed as Juggernaut. Hopefully he'll have done a good job of it. He was OK in Lock Stock, but that was actually set in London where he fitted in.

IMDB: X-Men 3

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And he was fine in Gone in 60 Seconds, mainly because he was a mute....

Yeah, I remember Beast in the X Cartoon souding like a Frasier-type character, which fits with Beast's background nicely. And Sideshow Bob was a work of genius, and provides by far and away the best episodes of the Simpsons.

I'm concerned about X3, mainly 'cos Bryan Singer has jumped ship to do Superman. Which I just don't get, having never understood the allure of Superman. I also note that we seems to have misplaced Alan Cummings [Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler]somewhere along the way.

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*edits first post to make the link a link*

Don't remember much of Nightcrawler, although it has been a while since I watched Xmen 2. It's on my DVD rental list, though, so I should get to watch it again at some point over Easter Whatever happened to him, they must just have decided that he wasn't a major character who was needed with the new story line - I don't remember him from the Marvel Top Trumps cards.

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Nightcrawler was in right at the beginning of X:2, he was the one who broke into the whitehouse.

Although I missed it cos when I went to see X:2 we got in late thinking it would be fine, we'd just miss the trailers and ads, but it was a subtitled for the deaf edition so there were no ads or anything, missed the first 5-10mins

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It's just slightly odd, considering that the first two pretty muh kept everyone who had been in from before, with a few casulaties - Toad, Sabretooth (no great loss, especially in the latter case), that Nightcrawler got dropped. X2 made him into a fairly key character - perhaps they just don't need someone with teleportation powers for this one...

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Why have teleportation when you've got someone with a big metal helmet-thing over his head who can charge through walls?

Can imagine a subtitled film being slightly off-putting though :\