Maisie Williams all but officially cast in X-Men spinoff, and other actor news

Around a year ago, it was rumored that Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams (Arya Stark) had been cast as the mutant Wolfsbane in an upcoming X-Men spinoff film, The New Mutants. There has yet to be an official confirmation of that casting, but director Josh Boone recently tweeted out some concept art of the character directing to Williams. The evidence mounts.

https://twitter.com/JoshBooneMovies/status/830635168738127872

It even looks a little like Williams…in the face, not with all the hair.

For those unfamiliar with the character, Wolfsbane is a shape-shifting mutant capable of changing into a giant wolf. Sounds right up the alley of a member of House Stark. Williams physicality, which was front and center during Game of Thrones season 6, would come in handy for a character who struggles to control her feral side.

The New Mutants are younger group of mutants, generally teenagers, trained by X-Men founder Charles Xavier. Williams’ onscreen sister and offscreen bestie Sophie Turner (Sansa) is also a part of the X-Men film universe. She played Jean Grey in 2016’s X-Men: Apocalypse, and isn’t done with the character. Perhaps we will see the duo together onscreen in a different context.

Elsewhere, Isaac Hempstead Wright (Bran Stark) is featured in the music video for English rock band Circa Waves’ latest release, “Fire That Burns.”

As if the name wasn’t ominous enough, Wright plays a murder victim in the video’s “B-movie” horror setting. Check it out below.

Wright became a fan of Circa Waves after seeing the group live, and the collaboration came about how it usually does these days: via Twitter.

"Yeah, I got a notification saying that Circa Waves had followed me, which was cool. Then later on in the day a message popped up asking me to be in their music video. I was like ‘yeah, why the hell not? That would be amazing’."

Circa Waves new album, Different Creatures, is set for a March 10th release. No word on if the band will join the long list of musical acts to make cameo appearances on Game of Thrones.

And finally, Lena Headey said on Twitter that she wants to play Catwoman.

It’s not quite as perfect a fit as a member of House Stark playing a character that turns into a wolf, but the sigil of House Lannister is a giant cat…Anyway, no new Catwoman movie could be worse than that Halle Berry version.

h/t NME