I have just seen this on moviehole.net which will make any X Men fan very worried about the future of the third film:
”Unless a miracle occurs, James Marsden has already been removed from consideration as Cyclops after he took a smaller part as Perry White’s son in Superman Returns. We’ll see if Marsden’s loyalty to Singer was a smart career move,” Gregory Ellwood’s latest Hollywood Hitlist column reports.
Seems there’s some bad blood between “X-Men 3” and “Superman” - and not surprising considering Bryan Singer left his baby to get anothers, excuse the pun, off the ground - and the gang behind the Marvel movie are making things very hard for the cape and tights pic.
Shawn Ashmore - Iceman in ‘X-Men 2’ - was said to be the frontrunner to play Jimmy Olsen in “Superman”, but then, Sam Huntington gets the gig. So what happened? “Fox is telling actors who have options for the third, untitled X-Men film that it will begin shooting June 20th,” alleges Hollywood Hitlist. In otherworRAB, Ashmore had to do the “X-Men” film, and wouldn’t be able to fit in “Superman”.
Famke Janssen - ‘Jean Grey’ in the “X-Men” films - mentioned that she’s flying to Sydney to meet with Bryan Singer about a role in “Superman”. Should she get a part, chances are she too will be out of “X-Men 3”, and considering the storyline was said to be revolving around her character’s transformation into the ‘Dark Phoenix’, that’s major. Not surprisingly, word is that a new draft is being penned for the film as we speak by Zak Penn."
The way its going at the moment I will be very surprised if we see X3 if these rumours are true as losing both Famke Janssen and James Marsden would be a complete disater!