James McAvoy is Young Professor X!

With production nearing on the X-Men prequel X-men: First Class we can expect a lot of casting news to be revealed in the coming months. Well now we know who will take on arguably one of the most important roles in the film.

According to HeatVision James McAvoy has signed on to play a young Charles Xavier, aka Professor X, in the Matthew Vaughn directed prequel for Fox. Now the question is who will replace Sir Ian McKellen as Magneto.

According to Fox, First Class will “chart the epic beginning of the X-Men saga. Before Charles Xavier and Eric Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were arch-enemies, they were the closest of friends, working together, with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known. In the process, a rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto's Brotherhood and Professor X's X-Men.”

The production is moving along quite fast. They're planning a summer start in London, and the movie is being planned for a June 3, 2011, release.

Bryan Singer, who conceived the story for “First Class,” is producing along with Lauren Shuler Donner and Simon Kinberg. 

With this bit of casting I guess we can assume that Wanted 2 is now officially not happening, and once again Mark Millar is full of shit, I'm not surprised though.