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X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (Casting, Rumors, Pics till release)

Too bad it's Shaw. How long do we have to wait for Mr Sinister? Can't they get past the silly name?
 
Maybe we'll see Sinister in this trilogy...there's still X4 as I've mentioned isn't completely dead just put on the back burner.
 
Aaron Johnson definitely not playing Cyclops in X-Men: First Class

There was a rumor that Aaron Johnson was portraying Cyclops. Is that happening at all? Are there any other cast members you can tell us about?

Tarquin Pack: Nothing you don't know about, yeah. Don't believe everything you read in the papers about Aaron, unfortunately. Aaron's kind of busy, yeah.

Can you talk a bit about the tone of the film? Will this be similar to the first three films or will you be going in a different direction, tonally?

Tarquin Pack: I think the first two (X-Men and X2: X-Men United) are the closest to the sort of movie we want to make. This isn't going to be a Kick-Ass version of X-Men. It is what it is and I think Matthew will bring a freshness to it. He has a way of authoring movies, like you see in Layer Cake, Stardust and Kick-Ass, that nuanced outlook will be in X-Men because that's just the way he is as a director. That's just the way he works. I think all of the movies he's done, where you expect him to turn right, he turns left. That's why Fox asked him to do an X-Men movie and, even though it's a big, franchise American movie, and you might think he'll be turning right like everyone else would, we'll still be turning left (Laughs).

There was a story that came out a few days ago where Matthew said he had seen Inception and had to cut a few pages out of the script. Can you elaborate on those revisions at all?

Tarquin Pack: I can't go into great detail, but let's just say that an idea we thought we had that was brilliant and original... damn that Christopher Nolan (Laughs). In the end, there were cuts. You always want everything to be in your film, but they were kind of irritating changes to make, because it was a really cool idea, but I think there's a possibility that there's a version of it that we might be able to use as well. In the end, it wasn't that we had to remove all this stuff in the film that didn't make sense, it was more that it was a really cool device that we thought we were going to be using.
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I like that they're going for more X-Men/X2 in terms of tone. It also sounds like those Inception-esque dream sequences were cut against the will of the filmmakers, but that's just how I see it.
 
Studio decision most likely knee jerk response to Inception and not wanting to be accused of copying anything. As I stated before it seems like what was planned was their take on the astral plane. I remain hopeful. I'm glad they're going for the tone of the first two films and that doesn't surprise me since Bryan Singer has been hands on in this project.
 
Admiral_Young said:
Studio decision most likely knee jerk response to Inception and not wanting to be accused of copying anything. As I stated before it seems like what was planned was their take on the astral plane. I remain hopeful. I'm glad they're going for the tone of the first two films and that doesn't surprise me since Bryan Singer has been hands on in this project.
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Knowing Fox's reputation, I bet it was budget reasons more than anything.
 
Why would it be stupid if they changed it in order to avoid being too similar to a recent film? That's a perfectly sensible thing to do. Writers do it all the time -- throw out something they were planning because they see that somebody else has just done it. That's not a bad thing, because it often forces them to come up with something even better.

And I don't for the life of me follow the chain of logic that would lead to the conclusion that the change might have been made to save money. On the contrary, having to go back and redo something like that would tend to cost more money, depending on how far along the production process is. I mean, if they'd already completed the script and storyboards and animatics for that portion of the film, maybe begun building set components or digital imagery for the sequence, and they then had to tell the various people involved to go back and do it again, that's more person-hours on the job and more money spent.
 
Because if it was indeed their take on the Astral plane then X-men fans (the bulk of which will be going to see this film) will recognize the sequence for what it was meant to be and the studio won't need to fret. I understand the reason, I just think it would have been silly. Vaughn was really jazzed about that sequence too from what I read.
 
^But it's not like there's only one possible way to depict the astral plane, or a battle in Xavier's mind, or whatever. Nobody's saying they abandoned any intention of doing such a sequence at all. My interpretation is simply that they're reworking how they do it.

As for getting excited about something and having to scuttle it, that's just part of the job. Ideally you should get excited about everything you create, put some real passion into it, but inevitably you're not going to succeed in getting everything you create out there to an audience. It's just the nature of the job that some of your creations go unsold or unaired for a variety of reasons, often because someone else just did something similar. When that happens, you just move on to the next idea that excites you, and hope that someday you get a chance to recycle elements of the ideas that didn't make it. Nothing remotely silly about any of it; it's just part of how this business works.
 
I wonder if we'll see the construction of Cerebro and the X-Mansion in this first one, most likely at the end.
 
Christopher said:
Why would it be stupid if they changed it in order to avoid being too similar to a recent film? That's a perfectly sensible thing to do. Writers do it all the time -- throw out something they were planning because they see that somebody else has just done it. That's not a bad thing, because it often forces them to come up with something even better.
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I wish studios had done that before 14 different movies copied the bullet time effect from "The Matrix"
 
Christopher said:
And I don't for the life of me follow the chain of logic that would lead to the conclusion that the change might have been made to save money. On the contrary, having to go back and redo something like that would tend to cost more money, depending on how far along the production process is. I mean, if they'd already completed the script and storyboards and animatics for that portion of the film, maybe begun building set components or digital imagery for the sequence, and they then had to tell the various people involved to go back and do it again, that's more person-hours on the job and more money spent.
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The sequence still exists, but instead of an action sequence (which is what Vaughn was referring to), the action sequence is removed. It's difficult to explain without spoiling the context of the scene, but apparently it was a relatively easy thing to do.
 
Why is the concept wrong? I have been a proponent of the belief that if we should have gotten a traditional origin film. If we did then I think that none of these weird continuity issues would be a problem. The concept in it's self is fine. I'm just worried about that because there seems to be so many characters and that this is going to be a period piece that it will be all over the place. I'm a big Bryan Singer and Matthew Vaughn fan and thought that Singer's treatment was interesting but I dunno I've got a weird vibe about this movie. Maybe it's because "X3" was so bad and "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" was incredibly disappointing and suffered from too many character cameos which detracted from the main story which should have been about Logan. First Class seems to be the first in a planned trilogy and if so then they should have stated that in the beginning and confirmed it so that there wouldn't be any confusion among the fandom.
 
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