Seems there was some speculation about Benjamin Walker joining Vaughn and Singer’s X-Men First Class, while other sites then report potentially to play Beast or Banshee.
Since then the source articles referencing his role have been pulled from the net, which raises other suspicions as well.
An article on ArtBeat states that actor Benjamin Walker “has been offered an enviable movie role in a coming “X-Men” project” and he may have to leave stage play Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson as a result.
Comic Book Movie also noticed an article on The Independant (which has since been removed) which said that Walker would either be playing a young Henry McCoy/Beast or Sean Cassidy/Banshee.
Now I don’t have a lot of exposure to this actor, but visually I think he could play the part of Beast. But more important for Hank McCoy would be personality. They will have to CG his agility anyways, and if the explore him turning blue and furry during or as a leadup to the film, he will basically be mo-capped for those scenes anyways.
I do find it interesting that they speculate he could possibly play Sean Cassidy – Banshee, who hasn’t officially appeared in the films yet. I speculated Banshee might be a First Class member as a ginger mutant was among those youngsters who fled the Weapon X facility with the help of an able bodied Professor X.
