Nicholas Hoult to play Beast in X-Men: First Class

[Fox1994]

http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk-about-a-boy-sidekick-grows-into-a-beastly-x-man.html

Ummm... The kid from "About a Boy" is cast for the new X-Men prequel/reboot. I think it's good that they're doing this, because the first two movies were great, but then Brian Singer jumped ship and Bret Ratner (he's done some quality stuff, like Rush Hour... but that's a different genre and it's quality is up for debate to some) fucked up the last one.

[Rayman]

Are they gonna stick with continuity and make him the "non-hairy" Beast?

Because he doesn't look that big and I picture pre-blue Beast to be, for lack of a better word, beastly in size, strength and agility.