
EXCLUSIVE: Add Oliver Platt to the cast of X-Men: First Class, the Matthew Vaughn-directed spinoff that 20th Century Fox puts into production next month in London. I’m told that Platt will play a role called The Man in Black, who is not a mutant. The film stars James McAvoy as Xavier, Michael Fassbender as Magneto, Alice Eve as Emma Frost, Nicholas Hoult as Beast, Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique, Caleb Landry Jones as Banshee, Lucas Till as Havoc, and Edi Gathegi as Darwin. Kevin Bacon is playing the villain and Rose Byrne will play McAvoy’s love interest Moira MacTaggert.
Platt stars with Laura Linney in the new Showtime series The Big C, and next stars opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway in the Ed Zwick-directed Love and Other Drugs. WME made his deal.
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Great, and I hear Joey Slotnick is eyeing a small role as well.
hahahahhaha. “joey Slotnick is eyeing a small role” hahahhaha. Nice post Joey.
Is it me or is does everything with Oliver Platt ring boring?
Thank you.
It’s just you. You’ve proven over and over to have to have no opinion of any substance. We all wish you would go away.
Thank you.
OK, so Platt’s the Man in Black? Does this mean he’ll drag the X-Men off to the island and have them harass Hurley & Ben Linus?
I’ve enjoyed his last few films. It will be interesting to see how he plays it since he can play a seriously creepy bad-guy.
Oliver Platt is always a solid actor. I hear is again brilliant in ” Love And Other Drugs “.
I heard that Platt is playing Sebastian Shaw.
If Platt plays the Man in Black, who will play Jacob?
Oliver Platt as the Man in Black? Couldn’t they get Will Smith or Tommy Lee Jones? I mean they already played a man in black…