Details about X-Men: First Class presented below could be considered spoilers.
All the previous week I watched various websites start the musical casting reports with director Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class. You can’t blame them. The first piece of news came out, of course one would report it. Usually. Then another one came out. And another, and another. When all was said and done, I was pretty glad I waited or I would have been driven crazy trying to keep up. Well, crazier than normal.
Here are some details about the movie:
It will be a new beginning for X-Men.
X-Men: First Class takes place in the 60′s. We’ll be seeing what will look like some of the original X-Men costumes.
The First Class movie will pre-date the comic story line of First Class, so there are some characters that won’t show up, like Jena, Cyclops, Storm and Marvel Girl. There will be plenty of time for them to show up if this branches out into a trilogy.
We’ll also be seeing Sebastian Shaw as the primary villain of the movie.
The HELLFIRE CLUB will be there.
The central premise of the story will take place where we see how the friendship between Charles Xavier & Eric Lensherr breaks down. We will also learn what exactly what happens to Charles and how he ends up in the wheelchair.
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The Cast of X-Men:First Class:
- Bill Milner – Young Magneto
- Caleb Landry Jones – Sean Cassidy/Banshee
- Edi Gathegi – Armando Muñoz/Darwin
- James McAvoy – Professor Xavier
- January Jones – Emma Frost
- Jennifer Lawrence – Raven Darkholme/Mystique
- Kevin Bacon – Sebastian Shaw
- Lucas Till – Alex Summers/Havok
- Michael Fassbender – Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto
- Morgan Lily – Young Mystique
- Nicholas Hoult – Hank McCoy/Beast
- Oliver Platt – “The Man in Black”
- Rose Byrne – Moira MacTaggert
- Zoe Kravitz – Angel
We’ll be seeing costumes in the next month or so,
X-Men: First Class is due in theaters June 3rd, 2011. It sounds like it will be fun, but dang, there are an awful lot of characters here. How are they planning to introduce them all without taking up the first half of the movie? Well, we’ll see, won’t we. “Patience my young apprentice, patience!”
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