Tag: X-Men: First Class
Alice Eve as Emma Frost in X-Men: First Class
Alice Eve, the British actress is in negotiations to portray Emma Frost in Matthew Vaughn – directed X-Men: First Class.
There was a rumor, earlier this month, that Rosamund Pike was in talks for this icy superhero role but later it was revealed that Pike was actually in talks to play Moira McTaggert, the assistant to Professor X, who will be played by James McAvoy.
If Eve takes the role, she would join a cast that also includes Michael Fassbender as a young Magneto and Benjamin Walker as a young Henry McCoy, a.k.a. The Beast.
She first appeared on the scene in Starter for 10 alongside James McAvoy, so if she signs on, X-Men: First Class will reunite her with McAvoy, who has already been cast as Charles Xavier who ultimately became the recognized leader of the mutant group X-Men as Professor X!
Michael Fassbender Joins X-Men: First Class Official
Are you guys ready for some interesting X Men: First Class casting news? Ok then, check this out: Benjamin Walker, star of the Public Theater’s “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,” is going to play Beast, the character played in X Men 3 by Kelsey Grammer.
He’ll be joining the cast that already includes James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender.
We had a chance to hear that the Inglourious Basterds star was in talks to play Magneto, but now, it’s official!
And although the exact plot of X-Men: First Class is still not known, there are already rumors saying it will “concern the younger versions of the X-Men and most likely focus on recruitment of younger mutants and the first team to be assembled.
It will also have to show the development of the team and eventual rift between Xavier and Magneto which leads to them becoming arch enemies and sets up the events of later X-Men films.”
James McAvoy in X-Men: First Class
James McAvoy has been cast to play the leader of the X-Men pack in the upcoming installment of the superhero franchise.
Good choice? Yeah, why not, McAvoy definitely has all experience in the world when it comes to comic book characters.
So, get ready McAvoy, because he will play Charles Xavier, who ultimately became the recognized leader of the mutant group X-Men as Professor X!
Let’s remind the official synopsis: “X-men: First Class, following the classic Marvel mythology, charts the epic beginning of the X-Men saga.
Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were 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.”
Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class in June 2011
Matthew Vaughn, the director of (now) well known action-comedy superhero film Kick Ass is no longer just negotiating with Twentieth Century Fox to direct X-Men: First Class.
Now, it’s official! Is he good enough for this kind of project? Well, let’s wait and see! Just for a record, the film will begin shooting this summer since it’s set to be released on June 3, 2011. Too soon? Yeah, we thought so…
Check out the X-Men: First Class synopsis part: “Following the classic Marvel mythology, charts the epic beginning of the X-Men saga. Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were 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.”
Lauren Shuler Donner on Wolverine 2
Empire magazine recently got a chance to talk to X-Men producer Lauren Shuler Donner (X-Men, X-Men Origins : Wolverine) at a press do for the just-released ‘Wolverine’ DVD & Blu-Ray about a few upcoming Marvel films including Wolverine 2, X-Men: First Class, Deadpool, and Magneto.
Lauren Shuler Donner Talks X-Men: First Class
X-Men franchise producer Lauren Shuler Donner told /Film, during a press junket for the “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” DVD/Blu-ray release, that the other movies she wants to see happen beyond X-Men: First Class are X4 and The New Mutants.
Donner also revealed that early plans have been considered for a fourth “X-Men” film reuniting the remaining cast members from “X-Men: The Last Stand” but the idea has yet to be pitched to the studio.
