We all know how Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class cast is shaping up to be pretty good. What we don’t know much about is about the film’s plot and setting. Is it a reboot? Is it a prequel? Here’s producer, Bryan Singer, answering some of those questions and rumors.
Singer spoke with AICN about the film, seeking to clarify what exactly is being done with everyone’s favorite band of merry mutants. First off, the film is set in the 1960s. JFK is the president, the Civil Rights movement is in full swing, and “there is a spirit of a hopeful future that was prevalent in that time.” Charles Xavier and the man who will become Magneto — Erik Lehnsherr — meet and dream of a future where man and mutant can live together in peace. And we all know how that works out…
Some bullet points follow on the ton of info that Singer has revealed:
* The two leads will be in their late twenties.
* Xavier will not be in his wheelchair, but we will learn how he gets there.
* He’ll also still have hair.
* Xavier and Magneto will create the X-Men together.
* This is not based on the comic book called First Class but rather is “a new beginning” for the series.
* Director Matthew Vaughn is “technologically inspired” by the James Bond tech of the ’60s.
* The costumes will be more “comic bookish” than in previous films.
* Neither Cyclops nor Marvel Girl will show up, but Cyke’s brother Havoc will.
* Kevin Bacon will play Sebastian Shaw and, yes, the Hellfire Club will figure into the mix.
* Filming begins with Xavier at Oxford University.
* The movie will have a much more international feel than previous installments. (The shoot will take place in England and the U.S.) Other locations will include Russia (though they won’t actually film there).
* There are other characters in the film who have not been revealed yet.
I have no problem with all of the details discussed above. The cast is shaping up to be potentially great. The story details, we kind of had an idea, but it’s awesome to have some of them confirmed. I’m really looking forward to watching the relationship between Xavier and Magneto, back when it started. I don’t have a PhD on X-Men, so I have no idea how Xavier ended up being bald and in a wheelchair. I also don’t know how their friendship came to be, and later on came to end. So I’m definitely looking forward to this one. Specially since, it’s gonna be set in the past.
You ok with all these confirmed details? What are you most looking forward to be developed into the film?
This movie dosent seam to make since, they sould have left off from X Men Orgins: Wolverine where Professor X rescuse the mutants at the end ,pluss why is it set in the 60’s then Wolverine took place 15 years before X Men 1
….the costumes are going to me more comic-bookish? Meh. I’m sorry, but what works in comics and cartoons won’t work on the screen. Picture an actual person dressed up in brightly colored spandex. It just doesn’t work. The dark leather outfits they had for the first couple movies were awesome.
I hope Wolverine isn’t in this movie…don’t get me wrong, I love him, but when every movie put out so far should have been renamed “Wolverine and the Xmen” … its time to see and get to know some of the other characters. Hopefully they keep true to the comics, and don’t do a complete rewrite as Xmen Origins did.
Speaking of Origins, what happened to the one about Magneto they were supposedly going to have?
I doubt Wolverine would have anything at all to do with this film.
Also, its been revealed many times already that Origins Magneto was scrapped and some of the elements of that story were introduced into the script for First Class.
They coudln’t make a Magneto movie without using Charles Xavier and then it would just be an Xavier movie with Magneto in it… so they made First Class.
LIKE THE SOUND OF THIS-WE’LL SEE
No Scott and Jean? WTF?!?!
Hellfire Club! Yes!!
I thought macavoy(spelling?)was too young to know a teenage Cyclops. But they really need to give the leader of the x-men his own movie or something. He has been a secondary character in all the x-men films and isn’t even going to appear in this one.
love to see this movie. thx for provide first look of thsi movie.
I never read the comics too much but I did watch the cartoon of Fox every saturday growing up and there was an episode when they went back in time and Xavier was bald while in his 20s.
So if this movie is a prequel, and Beast is in it that will make him 60 something in X3?
Maybe Beast ages slower after he takes his serum??… (in this universe that is)
Outside of that Magneto, Wolverine and Sabertooth should be the only main storyline mutants aging slowly.
Yeah, they totaly changed the Beast for the movies. Hank is roughly the same age as the other original X-Men, maybe a little older. Jeane Grey, Scott and the Angel are all the same age (18), Hank is a little older (20)and Bobby (iceman)should be a couple years younger than the rest (16). Of course, I’m talking about the early years of the books.
I believe there was a villain named Lucifer that dropped a large boulder on Xavier’s legs that crippled him and that is how he ended up in the wheelchair in the old comics. I am sure they will change that in the movie though. Maybe it will be through an act of betrayal by Magneto?
I want to say that it is because of his psychic powers that he became bald very early on.
Also, Cain Marko (aka Juggernaut) is Xavier’s stepbrother. Maybe they will introduce this in the movie as well?
I think it was Magneto who crippled him in the Ultimate universe.
Yeah when they created Genosha and Xavier tries to leave, Erik shoots a metal shard at Xavier’s back for what he believes was punishment for betraying him. Thats in the Ultimate universe.
in Marvel 616 earth (the main continuum) Professor Xavier was crippled by The Shadow King, a mutant who had evolved to pure psionic energy, at least that’ how I remember it.
It will be different but it could be cool. Not having Cyclops & Jean Grey could hurt. Also Angel as a girl is very odd. I just hope the Hellfire club scenes don’t look like something from an Austin Powers movie. My biggest fear is that they will have to throw this together fast to have on screen in 9 months. I hope we don’t get “Wolverine Claws” special effects.
The girl called Angel is an actual comic character who appeared in newer installments of the X-Men in I think 2005 or 2006? She had fly-like powers, insect wings and ate her food like a fly would. Angel was actually her name, whereas Warren Worthington III took on the codename Angel, then later Angel of Death before finally taking Archangel as his moniker. Hope this helps :)