{"id":421,"date":"2005-05-18T09:24:37","date_gmt":"2005-05-18T14:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=421"},"modified":"2005-05-18T09:24:37","modified_gmt":"2005-05-18T14:24:37","slug":"on-the-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"On the Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, I&#8217;m not talking Milwaukee&#8217;s Best, the official alcoholic beverage of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richmond.edu\/\">the University of Richmond<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m talking Hank McCoy, the Beast of the X-Men.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsarama.com\/forums\/showthread.php?s=61a39a9afd9751fee40872c73856a2ab&#038;threadid=34032\">Kelsey Grammer, of <i>Cheers<\/i> and <i>Frasier<\/i>, will portray the Beast in next summer&#8217;s <i>X3<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At a guess, I would think that the Beast will be done in CG, much as the Hulk was done in <i>Hulk<\/i>, with Grammer provided the character&#8217;s voice.  On the other hand, Grammer is a somewhat imposing person&#8211;he stands at 6-3, if memory serves&#8211;and he could wear latex appliances much as Jason Flemyng did for Mr. Hyde in <i>The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Kelsey Grammer.  The right voice for the Beast. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I&#8217;m not talking Milwaukee&#8217;s Best, the official alcoholic beverage of the University of Richmond. I&#8217;m talking Hank McCoy, the Beast of the X-Men. Kelsey Grammer, of Cheers and Frasier, will portray the Beast in next summer&#8217;s X3. At a guess, I would think that the Beast will be done in CG, much as the<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=421\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On the Beast&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[4092,422,905],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-comic-books","tag-kelsey-grammer","tag-x-men","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}