Alice Eve to play Emma Frost in X-Men relaunch

Alice Eve, who starred opposite Jay Baruchel in She's Out of My League, is in negotiations to join the cast of X-Men: First Class, Fox's relaunch of the Marvel Comics-based franchise.

Eve, playing Emma Frost, joins Michael Fassbender as Magneto and James McAvoy as Professor X in a story that focuses on Marvel's superpowered team X-Men in a younger incarnation than the previous trilogy.

In comics lore, Frost was originally a scantily clad villain called the White Queen who eventually became a member of X-Men, then a teacher at Xavier's School of Gifted Students.

Eve also appeared in The Decoy Bride, and was a candidate for the female lead in Captain America.

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