Deadline.com says that the word is Kevin Bacon (THE HOLLOW MAN) is in talks to play the villain in X-MEN: FIRST CLASS.
It’s unknown who the villain will be in the Marvel Comics-based film, as Professor Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and future Magento Eric Lehnsherr (Michael Fassbender) are said to to begin the film as friends.
Perhaps this film’s big bad will provide the threat to mutants that serves as the wedge that alienates the two into separate camps.
Alice Eve, Nicholas Hoult, Caleb Landry Jones, and Lucas Till have been announced in recent days for roles in the Matthew Vaugn film, which begins shooting soon in England.