Production Weekly is reporting that Amber Heard from The Informers and Zombieland is in talks to play a young Mystique in Matthew Vaughn‘s X-Men: First Class. We’ve also reported in the past that Rosamund Pike was up for the role of Emma Frost, Michael Fassbender may end up playing Magneto, Aaron Johnson has had discussions to take on a unknown role that might be Cyclops, and that James McAvoy has been officially cast as Professor X.

What do you think about Amber Heard taking on the role of Mystique?

Here are some more details on the history of the character Mystique from Marvel.

Born Moira Kinross to Scottish parents, Moira MacTaggert was one of the world’s leading authorities on genetic mutation, earning her a Nobel Prize for her work. She was the longest running human associate of the X-Men and was Professor Charles Xavier’s colleague, confidante, and also once his fiancée, having met and fallen in love with him while they were postgraduates at Oxford University. She ended their engagement when for reasons unknown she married her old flame, the late politician Joseph MacTaggert. She eventually created a Mutant Research Center on Muir Island, off the coast of Scotland. Moira was forced to contain and imprison her son Kevin, later called Proteus, when he developed reality warping abilities and severe psychosis. One of Moira’s goals was to understand human/mutant genetics, in order to cure her son. Moira’s connection to the X-Men began long before the team formed. The silent partner in the founding of Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters and co-creator of Cerebro, Moira assisted Xavier in helping the young Jean Grey recover after the traumatic triggering of her mutant abilities. Moira was a kind woman who took to helping humans and mutants alike. When Magneto was reduced to infancy, he was entrusted to Moira’s care on Muir Island, where she altered his genetic code in an attempt to keep him from reverting to villainy (an unethical decision that she believed was for his benefit). The X-Men first met Moira when she appeared at Xavier’s call to act as “housekeeper” for the team while they were on missions (a position that required her to demonstrate her proficiency with an M16 rifle within hours of her arrival). After finding out that her foster daughter, Rahne, was a mutant, Moira was the catalyst for change. She talked a discouraged Xavier into opening his school to the next generation of New Mutants, with Rahne becoming an initial member.

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Amber Heard up for the Role of Mystique in X-MEN: FIRST CLASS