It’s been awhile since we’ve covered anything on X3 (and by awhile I mean like a week), so it’s time to plug back in to the mutant-verse and see what director Mathew Vaughn has done to cinema’s best and probably most doomed Superhero franchise since we left him.
A few days ago, we found out from a variety of dueling sources that British thug regular Vinnie Jones may be well on his way to a part in Vaughn’s X3. Jones was a fixture in movies like Snatch and Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, but seemed spectacularly unsuited to play anyone in the X-Men universe except perhaps Juggernaut. Luckily, a couple of days later that rumor was followed up by one claiming that Jones will indeed be playing the helmeted wall of rippling flesh.
But the latest news comes via Aint-It-Cool-News and former Star Wars stuntman Ray Park. An AICN scooper caught up with Park in the midst of something called the “Armaggedon Convention” (For fans of smallpox?) in Wellington New Zealand. When asked if he might show up in X3, Park confirmed that he is currently in negotiations with the film’s producers to reprise his role as Toad, a role made famous more for the horrendous dialogue thrown at him by Halle Berry than for anything great Park did.
Of course, “in negotiations” is hardly a confirmation of his casting, and could mean a variety of things, including that his agent is on the phone begging Mathew Vaughn to give his client work. Like the Vinnie Jones rumor, this one will have to wait for official confirmation.
