X-men's Days of Future Past adds Colossus but not Azazel

It appears that the ever-growing army of alumni for next year's follow-up, X-Men: Days of Future Past continues to expand. This time, it will benefit from the presence of Daniel Cudmore, who will provide some steely reinforcement when he reprises his role as signature X-Man, Colossus.

 After playing the role of the reinforced Russian rager in 2003's X2 and 2006's X-Men: The Last Stand, Cudmore has stuck closely to genre films, playing vampire enforcer, Felix in the Twilight movies (which also features new co-star BooBoo Stewart as werewolf, Seth), and will portray the mythical Manticore in this summer's sequel, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters. Now, after an 8 year hiatus, he will once again play Peter Rasputin (as it is spelled in the film canon), the brawling, buff, and brave young mutant whose powers grant him superhuman strength and endurance, as his body transforms into an articulated anthropomorphic statue made of organic steel.

 But on a sad note add Azazel to the list of non-returning mutants for X-Men: Days of Future Past. First Class actor Jason Flemyng says he'll be sitting this next one out.

 Explained Flemyng, "Initially I was gutted, but then I remembered I had to get up at two in the morning, I had to be painted red and be slightly out of focus and posed a lot, and that was sort of it. Now I don't have to do that." He's relieved for other reasons as well. Flemyng is now a father of two. "I've had twins so I'm quite glad to stay at home," he continued. "It's filmed in Canada and it takes about seven months so I'm quite glad to be at home."


Source: G4.com, IGN.