Kelsey Grammer Would Love to Return as Beast in the MCU

Best known for playing the blustery psychiatrist Frasier Crane in both Cheers and the spinoff Frasier, Kelsey Grammer’s most well-known role on the big screen is that of Hank McCoy AKA Beast in 20th Century Fox’s X-Men franchise, a role that the actor would love to play again. While speaking with NJ.com, Grammer declared his desire to return to the world of The X-Men should the opportunity arise, and while he is not privy to any future Marvel projects, he is hoping that the studio would ask him to come back.

“I‘d love to do Beast again. Nobody’s really talked to me about it. I think maybe they’re gonna try to do another one. I’m assuming that they would go with, you know, the first is the best.”

Grammer first appeared as Beast in 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand, and while the movie itself was met with mixed reviews, opinion was unanimous that the Frasier star was pitch-perfect casting for the hyper-intelligent, blue-furred mutant. Grammer appeared again as the character in a brief cameo at the end of 2014’s X-Men: Days of Future Past, and while that is the extent of his appearances as Beast, the actor certainly made the character his own, with many hoping that we would hear his recognizable vocals emanate once again from the fanged-mouth of one of the most iconic members of the X-Men.

The X-Men are now back with Marvel Studios and Disney thanks to their acquisition of the rights to the X-Men franchise following the landmark merger of themselves with 20th Century Fox. At Fox, the franchise produced 13 movies, beginning back in 2000 with the original X-Men, in which audiences were introduced to the likes of Ian McKellen as Magneto and Patrick Stewart as Professor Charles Xavier, and their respective teams of mutants, both of whom are fighting to be accepted by humanity but in very different ways.

The series spawned several sequels and spin-offs including X2, X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X-Men: First Class, The Wolverine, X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: Apocalypse, Logan, and Dark Phoenix, as well as the two Deadpool movies and The New Mutants. Overall, the series has been something of a mixed bag critically, though several installments are still considered to be classics of the genre, with the franchise bringing in over $6 billion at the box office.

What Marvel plans to do with The X-Men, and whether there would be any room to bring back Kelsey Grammer as Beast, largely remains a mystery, though Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige has since revealed that discussions are currently happening which will result in the mutants being brought introduced to the MCU. “You know how much I love the X-Men,” Feige said. “I already said that’s where I started. I can’t tell you anything before we actually announced it, but rest assured, the discussions have been long and ongoing internally.”

As for Kelsey Grammer, the actor is due to reprise the most famous of his roles, that of Frasier Crane in a planned Frasier revival set for release on Paramount+. This comes to us from NJ.com.

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