PATRICK STEWART returning to role of PROFESSOR X. I don’t care! SMH, I know.

Oh god! Patrick Stewart is bald! Professor X is bald! They both have legs! Some of those legs work. Some of those don’t. Now Patrick Stewart is returning to the role of Professor X, and I am totally over it. I’ve moved beyond the initial X-Men franchise, which has aged about as well as twice-digested cheese in the sun.

I Heart Chaos:

James McAvoy is cool and all as a young Charles Xavier in ‘X-Men: First Class’, but it would be nice to see Patrick Stewart back in the chair one more time. And in the next X-Men movie, subtitled ‘Days of Future Past’, it looks like he will be returning.

Whether this means Stewart knows for a fact that the other main actors in the franchise will also be reprising their roles is uncertain, though it was definitely implied. Rumors of a fourth installment in the series have been swirling since the release of 2006’s The Last Stand, which was met with harsh criticism from Marvel fans for its handling of the Phoenix Saga and abrupt off-camera death for James Marsden’s Cyclops. They will certainly find it curious for Janssen to have been mentioned during Stewart’s impromptu roll call, since her character Jean Grey seemingly died for good at the end of X3. 

Perhaps the more likely scenario is a cameo or smaller role in the new X-Movie franchise. The next film in the X-Men line will feature characters from both the past and the “future” present-day. The follow-up to X-Men: First Class will be loosely based off the story “Days of Future Past,” meaning that while the central cast includes the young versions of Professor Xavier and Magneto, their older, future, counterparts could also appear alongside them in the film.