We've been getting an awful lot of sneak peaks at upcoming superheroes movies.
Marvel showed how awesome and aunthentic Captain America will look like.
Sony had angry gritty Spider-man looking all serious and stuff.
Now it's 20th Century Fox, trying to impress us with...
Air-xmen, 2nd class tickets.
Huh...
I mean,
X-Men First Class!
What are we looking at exactly??
In the order, introducing:
- Michael Fassbender as Magneto
- Rose Byrne as Moira MacTaggert
- January Jones as Emma Frost
- Jason Flemyng as Azazel
- Nicholas Hoult as Beast
- Lucas Til as Havok
- Zoë Kravitz as Angel Salvadore
- Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique
- James McAvoy as Professor X
It's in fact a prequel.
Of the spinoff Wolverine Origins. (which showed Xavier near the end recruiting a young Cyclops amongst others)
This mess of a movie will actually take place in the current Fox's X-men movie continuity, it's not a retake of the franchise by Marvel films! (also like the new reboot Spider-man at Sony's)
The story will take place in the 60s (huh?), which fans thought we'd get a funky/retro-ysh take on the classic Stan Lee-era costumes...yet we will get what looks like a drunk fratboy's idea of what the 60s would look like in a popcorn flick, directed by Michael Bay.
Strangely, they're still slighty comic book-inspired (I remember the X-men sporting X-yellow jackets at one point). And in the middle of all this, some girl seems to be cosplaying as Emma Frost (!?).
What about the rest?
People loved Nightcrawler, so now they've made a palette swap and TADAAA! here's his father.
And Havok will be ~50 years older than Cyclops yet call him his brother, and since his costume usually has a circle-logo in the middle, they put it right above his X-yellow jacket (because why try to make original costume or base the design on the originals when you can just randomly mix up things with no clear idea what you're doing!).
Mystique is...well, similar to the one from X-men 1, 2 and 3 only with a different actress. No opinion here.
And since there's no clear look at who is Magneto or Xavier, no recognisable character from the past movies..the question everyone will have from this movie: Who are these character and why should we care??
Seriously, this looks like a bad direct-to-dvd sequel for the moment, without trailer.
The big question now is why!?
Why this movie?
It's simple.
$$$
If Fox doesn't make this movie, the rights wil lrevert back to Marvel/Disney.
Marvel's beeng trying to regain all of their proprieties, which has been pretty succesful until now. They now can use any of their characters in most medias, cartoons, games, etc..
Spidey and the Ghost Rider are trapped at Sony if they don't use the rights until 2012 (which explains both upcoming sequels/reboots)
Fox will lose all their franchises if they don't put out new movies as well. The Fantastic Four will revert to Marvel at the end of this year (so they announced a random reboot to keep the rights, which they'll
Oh, but they already lost Daredevil.
One down, 2 more to go!
UPDATE Jan.20:
And here's some Hi-Res pics to have a better look at this...disaster in the making as well as some other pics!
Kevin Bacon brings some "meat" to First Class as "Sebastian Shaw" (head of the Hellfire Club in the comics)
This looks more and more like a failed pilot from the late 90s. than a proper movie..
And they're supposed to be in the 60s.... They couldn't look more modern/gritty if they were trying...
Source: bleedingcool
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