Quicksilver in both Avengers 2 & X-Men Days of Future Past???
Info taken from Newsarama.com :
In an interesting twist, sometime since tweeting news Thursday afternoon of his casting of actor Evan Peters as Quicksilver in the currently in-production X-Men: Days of Future Past, director Bryan Singer has edited his tweet.
The tweet originally read: "Before he was an #Avenger, he was just a REALLY fast kid. Thrilled to say #EvanPeters is joining #XMen #DaysOfFuturePast as #Quicksilver," launching a media scramble speculating on what this means for Avengers 2, given its director Joss Whedon also recently revealed his intention to write Quicksilver and his sister the Scarlet Witch into the 2015 sequel (see the original story below for details).
As of Friday morning Singer's tweet now reads, simply: "Thrilled to say #EvanPeters is joining #XMen #DaysOfFuturePast as #Quicksilver."
Original Story that came out onThursday: The way he phrases the tweet, we can speculate there could have been an agreement made, that Fox would get to use Quicksilver as a younger character, perhaps in the past scenes, while Marvel Studios could use an older, more adult version of the character. Due to their unique nature, however, it is possible the same actors could play these two characters in both franchises - just without any direct reference to the other in the film. The late addition, X-Men Days of Future Past is on its fourth day of filming, is notable as well.
As we previously reported, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch are a strange, unique case, where both studios have the rights to the characters, as they are both mutants (and the children of Magneto), and also longtime Avengers. As Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige said last year, "They're uh - It’s a little complicated, but if they want to use them in an X-Men movie they could, and if we want to use them in an Avengers movie we could. They're unique."
Evan Peters is a 26 year-old actor best known to comic book fans as "Todd," one of Dave's friends in Kick-Ass or in his role on the genre TV series American Horror Story. More as this story develops.