As was announced earlier this week, Evan Peters has been cast in the role of Quicksilver in X-Men: Days of Future Past. This news left a lot of us wondering what was going to happen with the character in Avengers 2, since Joss Whedon had already said he had planned on casting him and Scarlet Witch in that movie.
Well, on a recent episode of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Whedon was on mainly to discuss Much Ado About Nothing, but did field a question about the character, and had this to say about it:
I’ve already said we’re going to have a brother-sister team, the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver who were great mainstays in the Avengers when I was reading the comics … Their powers were very visually interesting. One of the problems I had on the first one was everybody had basically very punchy powers, but in the second, he has super speed, she can weave spells with a little telekinesis thrown in and can get inside your head. There’s good stuff.
Fallon immediately cast the characters with Selena Gomez and Channing Tatum playing Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, respectively, to great laughs from the audience, but Whedon specifically said no one has been cast yet.
While it’s highly unlikely Evan Peters would be playing the role in both movies, it will be interesting to see how this plays out, as it will be the first time a major character has been portrayed in two movies from separate film studios.
X-Men: Days of Future Past is set to open July 18, 2014, with Avengers 2 coming May 1, 2015.