With Marvel Studios’ upcoming X-Men reboot getting ready to film in Pinewood Studios in early 2027, casting is still on the horizon.
Fellow news outlet Knight Edge Media reported that Irish actor Peter Claffey has been cast as Hank McCoy aka Beast for the upcoming Marvel film.
Originally, it’s been rumored months ago that Charles Melton was in the running to play Beast but dropped out of the run to be in talks to play Kakashi Hatake for Lionsgate’s live-action Naruto film adaptation.
Hank McCoy is one of the original founding members of the X-Men, making his first appearance in the X-Men #1, issued in September 1st, 1963. Plus, a scientific genus and scholar in the Marvel Universe. The character is a mutant born having oversized hands and feet, that gave him natural acrobatic and athletic abilities, superhuman stength, speed, agility, and was given the nickname “Beast” by his peers during his youth.
McCoy joined the X-Men as a teenager after being saved by Professor Charles Xavier and the mutant-teenage team after his parents were kidnapped by a super-criminal villain name Conquistador. Later in the comics, he adopted his famous and permanent furry form in Amazing Adventures #11 (released March 1972) after drinking a untested hormonal extract that he created himself working under the Brand Corportation in that storyline.
Beast became a prominent character in the Marvel Universe having joined The Avengers and helping other teams like The X-Factor, Fantastic Four, The Defenders, etc…
Beast was portrayed by Kelsey Grammar in 2007’s X-Men: The Last Stand under the Fox Century X-Men Universe and will reprised the role in upcoming Avengers: Doomsday set for December, having already appeared in a post-credit scene in The Marvels. Nicholas Hoult played a younger version of Beast in the X-Men First Class trilogy under Fox from 2011-2019.
Claffey is a former rugby player turned actor gaining popularity for his role in HBO’s Game of Thrones franchise series, A Knights of the Seven Kingdom as Ser Duncan “Dunk” the Tall, that released earlier this year with season 2 coming out next year.
Claffey will join alongside Christopher Abbott as Professor X, Sadie Sink as Jean Grey, Kit Connor as Cyclops, Samara Weaving as Emma Frost, Inde Navarrette as Rogue, Maya Boyd as Storm, Asa Germann as Angel and Adam Driver as the villain Mr. Sinister.
The X-Men reboot is directed by Jake Schreier, co-written by Lee Sung Jin and Joanna Calo, and produced by Kevin Feige with a release date of May 5, 2028.
Principal Photography is expected to begin early 2027 in the UK.
Source: Knight Edge Media
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