Ian McKellen will skip final Player Kings shows after fall from stage WSB-TV Channel 2 [Video]

LONDON — Despite an earlier announcement, Ian McKellen will not return to the West End production of “Player Kings.”

The “X-Men” actor fell from the stage while playing John Falstaff in the London production on Monday night, breaking his wrist and suffering from other injuries, Deadline reported.

McKellen spent three nights in the hospital and is undergoing physiotherapy and doing some light exercise, the BBC reported.

He had been performing a fight scene when he fell, the BBC reported.

The show is scheduled to end this week before embarking on a national tour which is expected to begin in two weeks.

That means McKellen, 85, will miss the final three performances of the production which combines both of William Shakespeare’s two “Henry IV” plays, The Associated Press reported.

“The many messages of love and support will, I am sure, aid the speedy recovery that my doctors have promised me,” McKellen said in a …