David Boreanaz

Looks like former "Angel" star David Boreanaz might have a big-screen after all - and he can thank the mutant Nightcrawler for it.

British actor Alan Cumming wants the bulky thirty-something actor to play a role in his new film, "Suffering Man’s Charity".

According to Whedon.info the "X-Men" star told Attitude Magazine that "I’m trying to put my own film together, get all the money in place. I play this really sort of weird uptight music teacher, and he takes in this younger man who’s a novelist, and he tries to help him, of course with an unspoken attraction there - and I get jealous when he brings a girl home and we have a huge fight and I wind up tying him up with Christmas lights and saying “who’s the faggot now?”. Then I proceed to go kind of crazy, real Mommie Dearest, Tenessee Williams-on-crystal kind of thing. We want to get my friend David Boreanaz from Angel for the boy, if the timing permits."

Previous reports about the film suggested that Boreanaz was the film’s director - but according to more recent reports, it’s actually Cumming who will be stepping behind the camera for this one.

Meantime, CanMag.com reports that Boreanaz is one name being thrown about for the forthcoming "Star Trek : The Beginning". The TV regular would play a Starfleet Officer.