Ian McKellen Cast As Cogsworth In Beauty And The Beast

Sir Ian McKellen will go from a time-travel movie in X-Men: Days of Future Past to a movie where his primary function is to tell time.

The veteran actor has been cast in the role of Cogsworth in Disney's upcoming, live-action adaptation of their animated hit Beauty and the Beast, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Cogsworth, of course, is a clock that used to be the butler of a prince before being cursed and turned into a rather temperamental timepiece.

Bill Condon is directing the movie, which will star Emma Watson as Belle, Dan Stevens as the Beast/Prince, Luke Evans as the vain villain Gaston, and Josh Gad as Le Fou, Gaston's buffoonish and loyal sidekick, Audra McDonald as Garderobe.