"Atonement" star James McAvoy will play a young Charles Xavier, better known as Professor X, in Matthew Vaughn’s "X-Men: First Class," 20th Century Fox confirmed to TheWrap.
The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision blog broke the cool news first.
"First Class" will chart the epic beginning of the X-Men saga. Before Xavier and Erik Lensherr (aka Magneto) became archenemies, they were two young men who developed a friendship while discovering their powers for the first time.
With the help of some other Mutants (including old and new faces), they worked together to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known, and in the process, a rift opened between them that started an eternal war between Magneto’s Brotherhood and Professor X’s X-Men.