{"id":28767,"date":"2015-01-22T10:53:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T18:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=28767"},"modified":"2015-01-22T10:53:50","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T18:53:50","slug":"taron-egerton-will-not-play-cyclops-in-x-men-apocalypse-will-ben-hardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=28767","title":{"rendered":"Taron Egerton will NOT play Cyclops in X-MEN: APOCALYPSE. Will Ben Hardy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With ‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’ coming out soon, many wonder if its star, Taron Egerton<\/strong> will make the transition to Fox’s X-MEN: APOCALYPSE<\/a> as Cyclops. “I can say I’m not doing X-Men,” he told MTV UK<\/a> on rumors of him testing for the role. “I love the X-Men films and I love that franchise. I love the people who make them on and off screen, so yeah I’d love to do one day sometime, but in this instance that rumor is unfounded.”<\/p>\n

Another rumored actor for Cyclops includes “EastEnders” actor Ben Hardy<\/strong>, who gives Digital Spy<\/a> a cryptic quote, saying “Er, sorry? Oh well, that’s the rumor. Nothing guaranteed though.”<\/p>\n

Filming begins this April in Montreal for a May 27, 2016 theatrical release, so it won’t be too long before fans find out who earned the role, along with those for Jean Grey, Storm and many others.<\/p>\n