"X-Men: First Class" is one of my most anticipated movies this year, yet it is the one which leaves many questions. I've been reading a lot about X-Men recently, and it's so nice that Matthew Vaughn (director of "Kick-Ass") decided to make a storyline about the beginning of X-Men. We all know that this superhero group is super popular, but most of us aren't actually familiar with their origins, unlike the story of Superman, Batman, or Spider-Man.
So this movie takes place in 1960s. Charles Xavier (played by James McAvoy) and Erik Lehnsherr (played by Michael Fassbender) were still best friends, and they discovered their unusual power for the first time. They gather all mutants to protect them from the real threat, 'everyone else' (this phrase refers to the 'humans', as mentioned in the previous X-Men movies). Finally they took their infamous code name, Professor X and Magneto respectively. They worked together until there's a 'rift' between them which eventually tore them apart into two sides, Magneto's Brotherhood and Professor X's X-Men.
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| Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and Raven Darkholme (Jennifer Lawrence). I didn't know Professor X and Mystique were friends until I found this photo! They look cute though. |
The movie is scheduled to be released in June 3, 2011, but until now we don't even get the sneak-peek of the movie poster or even teaser trailer ("Transformers: Dark Of The Moon" has a latter release date and its teaser trailer has actually published since the end of last year.) Simply, I'm uber-curious yet excited about this.
From the cast list, I'm actually a bit disappointed because my favorite X-Men Jean Grey and Cyclops will not present. It's quite funny because Jean Grey was the first mutant student of Professor X's institute, and I safely say that no Jean Grey means no X-Men. Another thing is, Havok (played by Lucas Till), Cyclops' younger brother, will be featured in this movie. Havok's often described as being jealous of Cyclops' authoritative leadership in X-Men, and I don't know how Matthew will bring this love-hate relationship of the brothers without including Cyclops.
Besides Lucas Till, a lot of young actors will portray the younger version of the X-Men. Nicholas Hoult will play Dr. Hank McCoy aka Beast, Jennifer Lawrence is Raven Darkholme aka Mystique, and Zoe Kravits is Angel Salvadore. Emma Frost, the unlikely heroine and is famous for stealing Cyclops from Jean Grey, will be played by January Jones—which is another funny thing because she seems to be one of the 'grown-ups' mutants in this movie. (I mean, Emma's supposed to be the same age as Jean Grey and Cyclops, so she should be a lot younger if Professor X isn't even bald and sit on the wheelchair yet.)
The mutant Azazel (played by Jason Flemying) will likely be the ultimate enemy in this movie. Yes, he was named after the demon Azazel. His son, Nightcrawler (previously portrayed by Alan Cummings in "X2: X-Men United"), is my most favorite X-Men after Jean Grey, because he got a cool ability to teleport and described to be very religious, in contrary to his father. Nightcrawler won't be featured in this movie though.
By this post I'm begging to 20th Century Fox to release at least a still or teaser poster of "X-Men: First Class" as soon as possible—I'm dying to see it!
