Bryan Singer has announced that Quicksilver will be featured in XMen: Day’s of Future Past. This character will be played by American Horror Story’s Evan Peters. However, in all of this happiness of casting and announcements we are so soon to forget that Quicksilver and his sister Scarlet Witch are to be featured in Joss Whedon’s new Avengers 2 script. Marvel crossover? PLEASE! Quicksilver, aka Pietro Maximoff, is also the son of Magneto in the comics and a mutant, two elements Marvel/Disney should not be able to use in Avengers 2 because those elements are part of Fox’s overall X-Men rights deal.
In addition to this slightly large quarrel of legal rights is Whedon on board with this casting? Will Peters play the same character in both films? Or will Quicksilver be dropped from the Avenger sequel? If he is recasted for Avengers that will feed into one of my biggest personal pet peeved of all time. YOU CANNOT HAVE TWO ACTORS PLAY ONE ROLE OR ONE ACTOR PLAY TWO ROLES IN THESE FILMS. SHUT UP AND STICK WITH WHO YOU CHOSE. The Hulk confusion was enough. I’m over it.
The legal issues seem to be the biggest confusion. Xmen is the last franchise that Fox is holding onto for dear life. I also find this extremely interesting and am very excited to see how it plays out.
There has been no comment by Joss Whedon on the matter.