Capturing Jean and try to extract and harness the power of The Pheonix Force with the aid of the Stepford Cuckoos, played by Kyra Sedgewick, Holly Hunter and Julia Roberts, but if they can't get her then Laura Dern, haha.
X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (Casting, Rumors, Pics till release)
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Comic Book Resources said:
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Daddy like, either way.
So he basically says that this is not a prequel and that it won't suffer from having an extended cast. Of course we really don't know at this point what kind of screen time all of these characters will have. The film will focus on Charles and Erik and I'm guessing will branch out from their arcs to include the other characters.
Which is kind of a shame, considering the lion's share of plot and screentime those two already got in the first cycle of films while everyone else who wasn't Wolverine got shafted (yes, even Jean as Dark Phoenix wasn't well-used).
Course, characters like Cyclops were really not that interesting in the comics at the time the first two movies came out. It's only recently when he kicked Xavier out of the X-Men for being a jerk, took over, and united all mutantkind in a way even Magneto and Xavier were envious of that Scott's been well-written these past years.
Course, characters like Cyclops were really not that interesting in the comics at the time the first two movies came out. It's only recently when he kicked Xavier out of the X-Men for being a jerk, took over, and united all mutantkind in a way even Magneto and Xavier were envious of that Scott's been well-written these past years.
If this is going to be a trilogy and it's looking like it will be structured as one then to frame this first movie around Xavier and Magneto makes perfect sense to me. My problem is that it seems that the core X-Men aren't being focused on and this film is misnamed and should be X-Men Origins: Professor X and Magneto. I could see the second movie focusing on the students and the X-Men's first mission.
Well, film titles aren't about accurate representations of the story, they're about marketing and promotion. As stated, this is evidently the first film in a planned trilogy, so the title is more of a blanket label for that whole trilogy.
Name of sequels, X-Men: Second Class and X-Men: Third Class!
It is Fox and it is somewhat a rush job. We shall see.
I don't know why you'd treat being from 20th Century Fox Studios as a negative. I mean, they're the film studio that made Star Wars and Alien -- and the very successful first two X-Men films.
^ Because on internet message boards, it's one strike and you're out.... unless it's someone you really like, and then their failures are someone else's fault. Hell, Joel Schumacher making those two Batman films caused some people to retroactively decide his prior movies they loved now suck! 
So he is Shaw.
Maybe I shouldn't have generalized 20th Century Fox as a whole, but they've been kind of hit and miss on how they've handled the X-Men property
^Well, their X-films with Singer both fell in the "hit" category, and Singer's behind this one (or these three). Which would suggest, at the least, that 20thCF has learned from its mistakes.
Years ago, it was a different story, but under Murdoch and Rothman, Fox is mostly shite.
Look at their product over the last decade. There's nary a good movie to be found.
Edited to add that they leave most of their high-quality movies for their Fox Searchlight studio, but that's all low budget stuff.
Look at their product over the last decade. There's nary a good movie to be found.
Edited to add that they leave most of their high-quality movies for their Fox Searchlight studio, but that's all low budget stuff.
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I don't see how First Class can go wrong. Bryan Singer is behind the story and is producing, and he delivered the two best X-Men movies so far. In fact, the series has been steadily declining without him.
The director is Matthew Vaughn, who has an impressive track record. The type of acting pedigree that Vaughn and Singer are attracting (James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Kevin Bacon) is indicative that they're going for quality.
I have some doubts, but I'm inclined to give Vaughn and Singer the benefit of the doubt on this one.
The director is Matthew Vaughn, who has an impressive track record. The type of acting pedigree that Vaughn and Singer are attracting (James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Kevin Bacon) is indicative that they're going for quality.
I have some doubts, but I'm inclined to give Vaughn and Singer the benefit of the doubt on this one.
Which is why I remain optimistic, especially with Vaughn on board. Who would have thought Galvin Hood coming off Totsi to do XO: Wolverine would crash and burn so hard, but I kind of chalk that up to the studio tinkering with the script and looking for a stooge to bend over and take it and do their bidding. We all kind of expected that with Ratner and X3. With that said, maybe it was a good thing Vaughn bowed out of that and now given the opportuniy to restart the franchise with this series.
I'm optimisticly cautious.
You mean cautiously optimistic as the usual saying goes?
The fact that 20th Century Fox went to Singer and Vaughn, both of whom left the series after initially being hired, hints to me that Fox has realized their mistakes and the declining quality of the X-Men films.
From everything that I've heard, Vaughn has been given creative control to do what he wants -- from selecting his usual crew to doing the movie in London so he can be close to his family. I don't think Vaughn would have signed on if Fox wasn't being accommodating.