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X-Men: First Class Revisited
Posted 2 years ago
In the latest installment of Marvel Revisited, we look back on the divisive first chapter of a new mutant era with X-Men: First Class.
X-Men: First Class
- Theatrical - Wide 2011-06-03
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“X-Men: First Class” charts the epic beginning of the X-Men saga, and reveals a secret history of famous global events. Before mutants had revealed themselves to the world, and before Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr took the names Professor X and... See more Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Not archenemies, they were instead at first the closest of friends, working together with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to prevent nuclear Armageddon. In the process, a grave rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto’s Brotherhood and Professor X’s X-Men.
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Kingsman and X-Men: First Class filmmaker Matthew Vaughn thinks Marvel needs to make less films
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Kingsman franchise director Matthew Vaughn thinks there need to be fewer superhero movies if the genre will pick up steam again.
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James McAvoy still wants to play young Jean-Luc Picard
Posted 5 years ago
James McAvoy definitely has experience playing younger versions of characters once played by Patrick Stewart. The actor took over the role of Professor Charles Xavier in X-Men: First Class, X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: Apocalypse, and Dark Phoenix, but...
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Review: X-Men: First Class
Posted 15 years ago
PLOT: It’s 1962, and CIA agent Moira MacTaggert (Rose Byrne) is on the trail of The Hellfire Club, a sinister organization run by Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon) that’s keen on igniting a nuclear war between the US and the Soviet...
January Jones thinks that she might disappoint someone as Emma Frost in X-Men: First Class
There’s something about Emma Frost that makes guys feel all lusty. She’s blonde, has a nice pair of stems, and often wears skimpy tight fitting clothes. What’s not to like? Now if only she would bake and deliver pies, she’d...
Posted 15 years ago
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Ray Wise is a little late to the casting party for X-Men: First Class
Posted 15 years ago
Remember the days when it seemed like every day we had some sort of casting news for X-MEN: FIRST CLASS? Well, they weren’t done. IGN spoke with Ray Wise last night who revealed that he would be appearing in the...
Bryan Singer says Wolverine won’t cameo in the X-Men prequel First Class
Posted 16 years ago
Marvel mutant Wolverine may have a healing factor that slows his aging, so he basically looked the same in the 1960s as he does now. But we still won’t be seeing Hugh Jackman’s boneclaws and muttonchops during that time period...
Jennifer Lawrence discusses being blue as young Mystique in X-Men: First Class
Posted 16 years ago
The large roster of mutants in Matthew Vaughn’s prequel X-MEN: FIRST CLASS may not exactly be filled with familiar faces, but we’ve got word from an actress playing a character we’ve seen — in more faces than one. Hollywood Elsewhere...
January Jones doesn’t look too pleased to be Emma Frost on First Class set
Posted 16 years ago
Matthew Vaughn went through a number of worthy candidates for Emma Frost for his FIRST CLASS X-movie including Rosamund Pike and Alice Eve, but finally decided on Mad Men’s January Jones, who certainly looks the part. Behold, from some random...
Bryan Singer dishes details about X-Men: First Class!
Posted 16 years ago
There has been a whirlwind of casting announcements for the prequel X-MEN: FIRST CLASS lately — over a dozen major characters so far, giving some people unwelcome visions of other superhero movies that felt overpopulated. Producer and X-franchise veteran Bryan...
The X-Men: First Class cast grows and grows — how about January Jones, Zoe Kravitz and more?
Posted 16 years ago
If X-MEN 3 and WOLVERINE just didn’t have enough extra mutant characters for you, then you’re just gonna love X-MEN: FIRST CLASS — at this point it would almost be easier to list who’s not in it. But what the...
Oliver Platt joins the cast of X-Men: First Class as a non-mutant
Posted 16 years ago
Currently I’m awaiting word to be cast in X-MEN: FIRST CLASS. Okay not really, but it feels like every other actor/actress in Hollywood has a part in this damn movie. After James McAvoy as Xavier, Michael Fassbender as Magneto, Alice...
X-Men: First Class to have one degree of Kevin Bacon?
Posted 16 years ago
Well this is…something. According to Deadline, Kevin Bacon is in talks to take on a villainous role in X-MEN: FIRST CLASS. It’s not specified which character he might be playing, and I’m curious as to who you guys think it...
Update: X-Men: First Class gets a Beast & a Banshee with Nicholas Hoult and Caleb Landry Jones
Posted 16 years ago
Matthew Vaughn has found his Beast for X-MEN: FIRST CLASS–Nicholas Hoult. Wait…what happened to Benjamin Walker? Deadline doesn’t give any details on that part. In fact, they don’t even mention Walker at all. The news of Walker’s casting originally came...
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