![james mcavoy james mcavoy](https://cdn.justjared.com/wp-content/uploads/headlines/2021/08/james-mcavoy-defends-his-man-bun.jpg)
Cut to almost a year later and the film is now being chucked on to Peacock, NBC’s streaming service in the US, for a three-month period before being offloaded on to the Roku channel, like a three-course meal being deliberately dropped on the ground and left for the raccoons.
![james mcavoy james mcavoy](https://www.mensjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/jamesmcavoyglass.jpg)
The gimmick would remain and McAvoy would have to freestyle his way from lost to found, a predicament that would create “real tension” according to those involved. In October 2020, when film production was possible but precarious, it was announced that Carion would be partnering with STX for an English-language remake, filmed in Scotland with McAvoy taking on Canet’s role and Foy as his ex-wife (a character played by Mélanie Laurent in the original). The film was a modest success in France and received mixed-to-positive reviews when released in the US, a gamble that paid off enough for the director, Christian Carion, to want to do it all over again. It was Taken but what if the script had gone missing too.
![james mcavoy james mcavoy](https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/James-McAvoy-Twelve-Minutes.jpg)
Other actors had a more complete script but the success of the film largely rested on Canet’s experienced shoulders. In the film, Guillaume Canet was given just a six-page character outline and told to improvise his way through the familiar story of a man looking for his son. To understand its bizarre journey to the bottom of the streaming drain, one must go back to 2017 when French thriller Mon Garçon introduced a unique concept to a generic subgenre. But exactly why would a thriller starring James McAvoy and Claire Foy be treated like toxic waste? Yet none of them have quite matched the sheer what-the-actual-fuck-is-this oddity of My Son, a film you’ll most likely not have heard of because *whispers* they don’t want you to know that it exists. Picard was actually supposed to be 59 in his debut, so it's really debatable whether or not McAvoy is out of the running on the "Young Picard" casting.The majority of them have been rather wretched (laptop horror Host a notably nifty exception) but often fascinatingly so, shambolic curios that live and die in this unusual chunk of time, never to be watched or thought of again.
![james mcavoy james mcavoy](https://ilarge.lisimg.com/image/6927704/740full-james-mcavoy.jpg)
With that said, McAvoy is still five years younger than Patrick Stewart was when he first portrayed Jean-Luc in Star Trek: The Next Generation. James McAvoy is currently 42, so playing a young Picard in the same way he played a young Charles Xavier likely wouldn't work. But I'm probably getting close to being too old to do a young Jean-Luc Picard now. I mean, I've often talked about loving Star Trek, and jokingly, but also kind of seriously been like, if you ever want to do a young Jean-Luc Picard, I'm your man. McAvoy recently made clear to Collider that Star Trek is a franchise he'd love to be a part of, but he's not so sure his entry point is through playing a young Picard. James McAvoy has primarily been a favorite to play Young Picard because he stood in for Patrick Stewart as a young Charles Xavier in the X-Men franchise.