Another X-MEN: FIRST CLASS mutant registers...

By Matt Holmes /

You can add Banshee to the list of mutants I mused earlier today would appear in X-Men: First Class. Latino Review report that obscure 21 year old American actor Caleb Landry Jones (he played that kid on the bike who confronted Anton Chigurah at the end of No Country For Old Men) is the top contender to play the Irish mutant who has a 'sonic stream' - a kind of powerful wailing cry that destroys his opponents hearing and can cause physical vibrations. He can fly too, handily. Like the new addition of Emma Frost, Banshee is a second generation X-Men mutant and wasn't created until the 90's. Surprisingly for a movie going back to the X-roots, he wasn't created for decades after Stan Lee's original stories. Are we starting to get worried over too many characters, or will Banshee be as large a role as Emma Frost's in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (i.e. two seconds of screen time). Have LR made more of the casting than it warrants?