Taylor Lautner Wanted For X Men First Class But Unavailable Kevin Bacon S Role Revealed Also Bryan Singer Debunks Wolverine 2 Rumors

Taylor Lautner Wanted For X-Men: First Class But Unavailable, Kevin Bacon’s Role Revealed? Also: Bryan Singer Debunks Wolverine 2 Rumors

By Peter Sciretta/July 19, 2010 8:00 am EST

There actually seems to be a bit of legitimacy to the rumors that Twilight star Taylor Lautner was being courted for X-Men First Class. Singer confirms to ScifiWire the following:

Singer also debunked the rumor that he would be helming Wolverine 2:

“I wanted Taylor [Lautner] to do it, I really did. He’s doing a movie in Pittsburgh called Abduction and then he’s got the next Twilight movie. We talked about it a lot, he is a friend, and I really wanted to make it work. It just doesn’t look like it’s possible to do it.”

“It’s not what I’m going to do right now, the next project for me next year, in London, is Jack the Giant Killer that is set in the 1300s and it’s very fun. It will be a big movie.”

Back to First Class — last week it was reported that Kevin Bacon had been offered the role of a villain in the superhero prequel. Some readers speculated that he might be playing Mr. Sinister. The not so credible Forces of Geek claim that Bacon will be playing Sebastian Shaw in the film. Here is some information on Shaw from wikipedia:

But remember, Forces of Geek previously claimed Olivia Munn would be playing Wasp in Iron Man 2/Avengers and that Rosamund Pike had been cast as Emma Frost in First Class. Both stories turned out to be false. So for now we’ll just consider this an unconfirmed rumor.

A mutant, Shaw possesses the ability to absorb kinetic energy and transform it into raw strength. He is the leader of the New York branch of the Hellfire Club, an exclusive secret society bent on world domination, although to the public, he is a legitimate businessman and ordinary human. He once funded the mutant-hunting Sentinel program to keep it under his thumb. In 2009, Shaw was named IGN’s 55th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time. His power first manifested shortly after he was accepted to engineering school (speculated to be Carnegie Mellon University) and his father Jacob Shaw died after he contracted an incurable disease. Sebastian Shaw devoted himself to his studies and created Shaw Industries, becoming a millionaire by age 30 and a billionaire by age 40.