Scifiwire Movie News (3/22/2005) - X-Men cast and crew!, Ender's Game writer,

[Granite]

Scifiwire Movie News (3/22/2005)

X-Men director and cast confirmations!
Writer for Ender's Game hired
"The Flash" casted!
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X-Men director and cast confirmations!

British filmmaker Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake) has been tapped to helm the third X-Men movie, Variety reported. Filming is scheduled to start in early summer, with many of the cast from the first two films expected to reprise their roles, the trade paper reported.

Hugh Jackman is set for Wolverine, and Fox is in negotiations with Halle Berry, Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart to return. Fox is aiming for a Memorial Day 2006 release.

Vaughn's Layer Cake is a British crime drama starring Michael Gambon and Sienna Miller, which has grossed $8.3 million in the United Kingdom and is slated for release in the United States by Sony Classics later this spring, the trade paper reported. Vaughn is also a contender to direct a Harry Potter movie or the next James Bond installment, the trade paper reported.

(Note from Granite: Halle Berry has expressly said she wanted a bigger role in the new X-Men or she wouldn't do it)
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Writer for Ender's Game hired

David Benioff (Troy) has been signed by Warner Brothers to write the script for Ender's Game, a film based on Orson Scott Card's SF novels Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow, the ComingSoon.net Web site reported. Benioff will work with his writing partner, Dan Weiss, in close cooperation with Troy director Wolfgang Petersen, who is developing Ender's Game with the intent of directing it himself, the site reported.
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"The Flash" casted!

ComingSoon.net reported that Ryan Reynolds confirmed that he's in line to play the superhero The Flash in a film to be written, produced and directed by his Blade: Trinity director, David Goyer, should the project get a green light.
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Famke Janssen IS Confirmed For X-Men 3

According to Variety Though her "X-Men" character Jean Grey was killed off to save her fellow mutants in the last film, Famke Janssen has signed a deal to return for 20th Century Fox and Marvel Entertainment's "X-Men 3," to be directed by Matthew Vaughn.

As expected, Hugh Jackman has made a deal to return as Wolverine, and Halle Berry, Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart are moving the same way for a film to shoot this summer. A release date of May 26, 2006, is planned