Quicksilver heading for X-Men as well as Avengers 2

Now this is a new one. A week or two ago, it came to light that the character of Quicksilver was on Joss Whedon's radar for inclusion in his upcoming The Avengers 2. Since then, he's confirmed the news, even though the role thus far remains uncast.

However, news has now broken that the Marvel character has also been snagged by Bryan Singer for his now-in-production X-Men: Days Of Future Past. It means that the same character will turn up in two entirely independent films, a year apart. That the news has broken now, following Joss Whedon's confirmation of Quicksilver for The Avengers 2, looks slightly odd, but then we'd hardly imagine that Singer has just rewritten his film to get on Marvel's nerves.

That said, Marvel is unlikely to be best pleased. Reports suggest that this is not a union of the X-Men and The Avengers franchises, and, according to Hitfix, "if either of them could get the other to back off, they would". The report adds that "what we're going to see is a legally-negotiated stand-off in which we'll get two totally different versions of one character".

Marvel Studios' president Kevin Feige, however, told SuperHeroHype that "they can use [the characters] as mutants and as Magneto's relatives, but cannot have anything to do with The Avengers", citing "a specific arrangement" in place for the characters.

X-Men: Days Of Future Past will use the character in one sequence, and Bryan Singer has cast Evan Peters, of American Horror Story fame, in the film. Quicksilver is, of course, the son of Magneto, going by the name of Pietro Maximoff. We wait and see with interest how both films approach the character.

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