November, 11. 2010.

Candy Alderson Hair and make-up artist on the upcoming X-MEN:First Class has let it slip that Beast played by Nicholas Hoult will indeed be blue:


"I've been spying on Beast, he's being made next to our fitting room. He looks big and very blue!"

Also there have been a few new minor castings:

...several other roles in the movie, including Russell Balogh as a Russain soldier, Artem Sinelnikov as a Kremlin War Room technician, Irena Kiseleva as a Russian secretary, Will Wheeler as an Oxford University student, Maurice Hunt as a Jew, Leonard Redlich as a Stormtrooper, Andrew Foster as a German soldier, Charlie Hobbs as a refugee and Juan Herrera as an airport worker.

Source - comicbookmovie.com

November, 3. 2010.

Bryan Singer has denied rumours that Wolverine will make an appearance in prequel X-Men: First Class.

Hugh Jackman was recently spotted near Jekyll Island, Georgia - a filming location for Matthew Vaughn's X-Men origin story - leading to speculation that the Marvel antihero would appear in the film.

Singer, who directed the first two X-Men outings and is producing First Class, claimed that the Wolverine rumous are false.

"He's not in the movie, he's in the Wolverine movies," The Coventry Telegraph quotes him as saying.

A Fox spokesman added: "X-Men hasn't started shooting in Georgia yet and if Hugh was in Georgia, it wasn't for this movie."

Singer also discussed his reasons for making First Class a period film, saying: "It's a really cool and fun story. It will be the first Silver Age Marvel movie.

"We've set First Class in a time when the X-Men were conceived in the early '60s, up against political events that were happening - the early civil rights movement - and we have these kinds of events at a time when the world didn't know mutants existed."

X-Men: First Class will open next June, while Darren Aronofsky's Wolverine 2 is scheduled for release later in 2011.

Source - digitalspy.co.uk

October, 25. 2010.


Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone), who is playing Raven Darkholme / Mystique in Matthew Vaughn‘s upcoming entry into the Marvel movie universe, X-Men: First Class recently took a break from shooting in London and traveled to Los Angeles for the DVD release of her breakout film, Winter’s Bone. While she was there, she spoke with the press about her character in the film.

The actress told Hollywood Elsewhere about her make-up process for the movie, and how much we will actually be seeing her as Mystique in the film:

“Only 10% of her screen time will be as Mystique, she said. It takes X-Men: First Class makeup artists about six hours to transform her into Mystique with the blue skins and the scales, she added. (She has a nickname for the process or the makeup or whatever — “Mystink.”) I asked if official photos have been taken, and she said the idea was to keep her appearance under wraps until just before the film’s release. I said if the world has to wait until next summer for a shot, fine, but if an un-approved shot makes it onto the web I won’t be sorry.”

E! spoke with Lawrence about filming nearly naked on the set:

“I used to walk around and be like, ‘Oh, my gosh—I’m naked! But now I could walk in the street and people could start touching me and I would just wait for them to finish and I’d keep walking. I have, like, no modesty left.”

Source - scifimafia.com

October, 11. 2010.

Set photographs of James McAvoy as Professor Charles Xavier in "X-Men: First Class" first appeared online last month, featuring the eventually bald telepath conversing with some of the film's other leading cast members.

Now, thanks to The Oxford Student, some context has emerged regarding the leaked photos. According to the report, the "First Class" scenes filmed in Oxford amount to a mere "few minutes of useable footage," despite the fact that it took three weeks to set up and two days to shoot the sequences on a hefty price tag of 200,000 pounds. Re-shoots are possible due to rain effecting the shots.

Additionally, some story details have come to light. The Oxford Student reports that the scenes shot in Oxford feature Xavier "getting doctorates in theology and philosophy from Oxford University in the 1960s, his manipulation of student uprisings using his psychic powers, and the way he meets best friend turned arch rival Magneto."

Based on what's already known about "First Class," it's clear that the movie is set in the 1960s, with pictures of January Jones as Emma Frost already indicating as much. Although the time period and some of the settings have been revealed at this point, it remains unclear exactly how some of the film's mutants such as Sean Cassidy, Hank McCoy, Alex Summers and Mystique fit into the picture. In fact, it's still not officially known who Kevin Bacon is playing, though reports suggest that he's most likely starring as Sebastian Shaw of the Hellfire Club.

At this point, the details are scarce on "X-Men: First Class." But with a June 2011 release date looming, expect to know a whole lot more in the coming weeks.

Source - splashpage.mtv.com

October, 2. 2010.

September, 29. 2010.

September, 22. 2010.


As far as I can tell, we’re all pretty much on board with James McAvoy as Matthew Vaughn’s choice to play a younger version of Charles Xavier in X-Men: First Class.  But Sir Patrick is a fine, fine actor — classically trained and all that.  McAvoy has his work set out for him in crafting a performance that lives up to Stewart’s Professor X in the initial X-Men trilogy.  The Scottish actor seems up for the challenge, confident enough to joke, “I’m basically going to try and bury Patrick’s performance.”

He followed up with more serious discussion of his approach, how he’d like to link his Xavier to Stewart’s by the end of First Class.  Hit the jump for his precise comments, in both print and video form.

McAvoy explained what he hopes to accomplish over the course of the film in an interview with MTV:

“I think the fun about these films, when you go back and you either reboot or do a prequel, is you get to see how people became who they are.  That means that you have to do them differently and by the end of the movie you have to do them the same way. The interesting journey is what happens to them, what changes them, what makes them evolve — not just mutate, but emotionally and psychologically evolve.

I would suggest by the end of the movie and the start of the next movie, it’ll be more like what Patrick does. Or maybe not. Maybe it will still be in a period of flux, if there is a new movie.”

Makes sense to me.  I appreciate how matter-of-factly he speaks about the project as multiple films.  Makes me wonder just how much McAvoy, Vaughn, the producers (specifically Bryan Singer), and other key cast members (say, Michael Fassbender) have talked about the big picture.

If you’d like to know more about the film, our most comprehensive look came from Singer himself earlier in the summer.  And as promised, here’s the video of the McAvoy interview.

Source - collider.com

September, 19. 2010.

SPANISH actor Alex Gonzalez is playing the mutant Riptide in Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class, it's been reported.

His involvement was revealed by a Spanish superhero fansite, which says Alex will spend four months in London shooting the film.

Gonzalez is said to be "super-excited" about landing the part and the site - Blog de Superheroes - says he has confirmed the character he is playing.

Riptide - real name Janos Quested - has the ability to spin his body at incredible speed. He can simultaneously generate bone protrusions in the form of shurikens (throwing stars) and spikes, which he hurls at opponents as lethal projectiles that can even penetrate steel.

In the X-Men comics, he a member of the villainous Marauders. For a look at the comic book version of the character, see below.

The character was seen briefly as one of the imprisoned mutants at Stryker's base in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

Gonzalez, 30, has several Spanish TV series credits, appeared in 2007 film Luz de Domingo (Sunday Light) and had a minor role in 2008's Milk.

A separate report on Spanish showbiz site Fotogramas erroneously named Alex's character as Tornado, who doesn't exist in the comics, and added that he has to undergo three hours of make-up for the role. He will be filming in London until the end of the year, it said.

The site added that First Class will shoot for three months in London and then for one month in Georgia, USA.

X-Men: First Class, starring James McAvoy as Xavier, Michael Fassbender as Magneto, January Jones as Emma Frost and Kevin Bacon as Sebastian Shaw, is released on June 3, 2011.

It's a prequel showing the early years of Xavier and Magneto and how their friendship soured and led to the creation of the opposing forces of the X-Men and the Brotherhood, as seen in the existing trilogy.

Source - blogs.coventrytelegraph.net

September, 8. 2010.


January Jones seems to be in serious thought, tapping into the right mind set for Emma Frost in the first real images up for Matthew Vaughn's "X-Men: First Class". I know that a couple of days ago a "picture" cropped up off the "X-Men" set, but this one is a lot more satisfying, no?

Along with some pictures of our favorite White Queen in some groovy garb, we've got the supposed official first logo for the upcoming picture on the side here. There's not much to it, but it's easily recognizable enough for people to say "Oh! X-Men! Yay another one!"

"X-Men: First Class" centers on Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and Erik Lensherr (Michael Fassbender) before they took the names Professor X and Magneto, just two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were archenemies, they were closest of friends, working together, with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known. In the process, a rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto's Brotherhood and Professor X's X-MEN.

Keep on checking, we'll be sure to post tons of more "X-Men" goodness here. "X-Men: First Class" BAMF's into theaters everywhere on June 3rd, 2011.

Source - latinoreview.com

September, 7. 2010.

Soon after rounding up the main cast, "X-Men: First Class" has entered production in England. XMF reported that the movie commenced the principal photography late August at Pinewood Studios and surrounding locales in the country.

The site further informed that the first scenes being filmed see [SPOILER ALERT!] "Charles Xavier attending Oxford University [and] debating the mutant phenomenon, and Erik Lensherr dealing with the horrifying events in Auschwitz via a flashback sequence."

Later, during last weekend the movie was said shooting in the old Kingsway Tram Station in the Holborn area of London. Comic Book Movie (CBM) got a snap from outside of the filming location but there is not much that can be seen since the filming seemingly took place inside the massive underground area that leads to the dissused Aldwych Tube Station.

In related news, CBM has got its hand on an image of what is believed to be a concept, if not official, logo of the upcoming "X-Men" spin-off. The simple shot features the title of "X-Men: First Class" on a bigger cross mark.

"First Class" movie will chart the epic beginning of the "X-Men" saga and follow Charles Xavier aka Professor X and Erik Lensherr aka Magneto when they were still close friends who worked together with other Mutants to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known. James McAvoy is tapped to portray Xavier, while Michael Fassbender is cast as Magneto.

Matthew Vaughn is serving behind the lens for the upcoming action movie which has the script written by Jane Goldman, Ashley Miller, Jamie Moss, Josh Schwartz and Zack Stentz. 20th Century Fox plans to drop the film in theaters across the nation on June 3, 2011.

Source - aceshowbiz.com

August, 29. 2010.

Fox’s prequel to its popular X-Men movie franchise, X-Men: First Class, doesn’t even go into production until August 31st, but already the lead actor of the movie, James McAvoy, is on thin ice with director Matthew Vaughn. McAvoy, who will play Professor Charles Xavier, aka Prof. X, the world’s most powerful mutant telepath and the founder of the outcast superhero team known as the X-Men, apparently got into a heated argument with Vaughn over the director’s endorsement of the closure of the UK Film Council, a private company funded by the National Lottery with the goal of developing the film industry in the UK. In a statement to the Daily Mail (via Express), Vaughn confirmed that the disagreement over the subject almost cost McAvoy his role in First Class.

James and I have discussed this. He's still in the movie... just. James is an actor and actors don't necessarily know what's best for them. That's on the record. But he's a brilliant actor and he'll be great in this film.

Many other stars, both British and American, have begun campaigning against the Council’s abolition, but Vaughn explained to the Daily Mail that the Council is flawed and needs to be restructured.

[The UK has] the two biggest franchises of all time: Harry Potter and James Bond. You can't get more British product than Potter and Bond. Shot in England. Made by the British. But all the money goes back to America.

Source - reelzchannel.com

August, 20. 2010.

In a total change of events, we finally hear for producer Bryan Singer about what the hell is going on with "X-Men: First Class". A lot of strange casting has been going on, and we still don't have too much of a clear idea of how this film will be approached. All we know is the very basic plot, seeing the early days of Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr, how they met and formed their own groups.

Today Harry Knowles got all the info we've been wanting to know out of Singer. With this, you could be looking at the film in a different perspective, just because of what he reveals between the Hellfire Club, the '60s, etc. Oh I'll stop summarizing it and just let you read what he found out.

The film takes place in the 1960's. John F Kennedy is the President of the United States. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X are on TV doing marches. There is a spirit of a hopeful future that was prevalent in that time. We will see how Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr met - and how they dreamt of a future with Mutant & Human kind. They're going to be in their late twenties. Xavier - as played by James McAvoy will not be in his wheelchair to begin the film - but we will see how he wound up in a wheelchair. I asked if McAvoy would have a nice shiny chrome dome - and folks. We're going to see Professor X when he still had hair. We'll see McAvoy and Fassbender's Magneto formulate what it is they are attempting by creating the X-MEN.

Now Bryan wanted us to know this is not the conventional FIRST CLASS comic - but rather a new beginning for X-MEN. Set in the 60s - Vaughn is technologically inspired by JAMES BOND's tech of the time. The costumes will be far more comic bookish than we've seen before - and while Scott and Jean aren't here - Cyclops' brother Alex Summers aka Havoc will be, as played by Lucas Till.

With January Jones and Kevin Bacon playing Emma Frost and Sebastian Shaw - we will be getting the HELLFIRE CLUB. Looks like filming will begin with Xavier at Oxford University in the 60s. And Bryan is excited that the film is going to have a much more international feel than the prior X-MEN movies. They'll be shooting in England & the United States - and they'll be representing other locales around the globe as well, but would only tell me that Russia (aka The Soviet Union... CCCP) will be amongst them.

Source - www.latinoreview.com

August, 17. 2010.


There is actually a chance that this is the final casting news on Matthew Vaughn‘s X-Men: First Class. Deadline is reporting that Mad Men star January Jones has signed on to play the role of Emma Frost, previously rumored to go to Alice Eve (She’s Out of my League). Frost is also the mutant White Queen.

Zoe Kravitz, star of the upcoming Mad Max: Fury Road and daughter of Lenny Kravitz, will play Angel. Bill Milner (Son of Rambow) will take on the young version of Magneto, played by Michael Fassbender and lastly Morgan Lily (Flipped, 2012) has signed on for Young Raven.

The rest of the cast is James McAvoy as Xavier, Michael Fassbender as Magneto, Kevin Bacon as Sebastian Shaw (who Vaughn recently said “will surprise”), Nicholas Hoult as Beast, Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique, Caleb Landry Jones as Banshee, Lucas Till as Havoc, Jason Flemyng as Azazel,  and Edi Gathegi as Darwin.  Rose Byrne is in talks with Fox to play Xavier’s love interest, Moira MacTaggert. Most recently Oliver Platt is playing the non-mutant only known as the Man In Black.

X-Men: First Class begins production begins August 23 in London and scheduled for a June 3, 2011 release.

Source - thefilmstage.com