Did Fox Just Try to Steal a Movie Mutant from Marvel?

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Bryan Singer broke some news on Twitter today: Evan Peters, of American Horror Story, will be playing Quicksilver in Singer's upcoming X-Men film. Alone, that's not all that interesting, but put that together with Joss Whedon's intention to put Quicksilver in the Avengers sequel, and things get really interesting. 

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