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

Was that Feb 18 date bogus? Or are they waiting for the 2 mil to open the 'X-App' and release the trailer. What is full length these days anyway? Will we get a whole 3 minutes? Yowza!

I still really wish they had a website with a feature design for each mutant. Maybe that will come later, too. For now its everybody dissect this thing!
 
We posted at the same time Bored! I much prefer looking at the Fass anyway, but agreed. I 'm glad they went for the badass rather than the usual sex appeal. Which ended up being sexy anyway. :)

Great avatar! I am tempted to change from my Bean avatars in favor of my old 300 Stelios avatars, but I can't, I'm too loyal. However, my review blog is quickly filling up with the pimp that is Fassy, see below ;)
 
Whofan said:
However, several of the members of this team do have their origins in the older comics: Havok, Beast, Banshee, and of course Xavier and Magneto were introduced prior to the all-new, all-different team.
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I still think the New Mutants like Canonball, Karma & Wolfbane would have been cooler than some of the newer lesser known characters they're using.

However on the other hand, this movie maybe the only way Shaw, Azazel & Angel Salvador might get made into action figures.:lol:
 
Admiral_Young said:
Yeah I saw those. The Jean and Scott two-packs, along with Logan and Sabertooth. They're separate from the movie. I have been wondering if they would have First Classs movie toys but it doesn't look like it. We would have seen them already with the rest of the film toys.
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Hasbro owns the rights to Marvel's toy lines now, so I'm guessing they'll be in the same scale and style as the Marvel Universe figures. Hasbro's mindset is having Star Wars, G.I. Joe & Marvel all in the same scale to increase play value. Much like the X-Men Origins: Wolverine figures were.
 
Well they are planning a trilogy, so who's knows what they'll do next? And actually, do you think there are a lot of student mutant cameos here, an entire recruitment montage?

And remember awhile back when I was ran through for suggesting Fassbender over Cavill for Bond? Empire Magazine agrees!

http://www.empireonline.com/features/x-men-first-class-trailer-breakdown

I feel so vindicated by Page 24:

'Revenge

Part of the movie seems to be concerned with Erik’s quest for revenge against the Nazis who tormented him during his internment at a concentration camp (as seen in X-Men). Here, he’s striding down a corridor, taking out goons with his powers. If there’s one thing that excites us about First Class beyond anything else, it’s the potential of Fassbender’s performance as a mad, bad and dangerously cool Magneto. The man’s the next Bond if there’s any justice.'

It's the little things in life. Man, what could they possibly be filming at these LA docks tomorrow?


ETA: Just saw this supposed 'New Zealand' trailer, but it looks the same, just different wording cards I think

http://www.shockya.com/news/2011/02/13/x-men-first-class-trailer-from-new-zealand/
 
Well if this is going to be a trilogy...the second film won't be Vaughn's next movie. We'll be waiting for a second film for two or three years. The link I posted a few pages back is what Vaughn has been eyeing, interestingly another Mark Millar comic "American Jesus". He was originally planning filming it in 2009 but did "Kick-Ass". I do think "First Class" has potential for a trilogy. I just feel like we're going to be waiting for a while. I think we'll get "X4" in the meantime afterwards and that Bryan Singer will direct it. That's my prediction :)
 
KB24 said:
I'm not surprised if they are planning to make Havock Cyclops' dad. I suspect that when they said they were still related.
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It kinda does for me because now I'm wondering: "How the hell old is Prof. X in the first X-Men?"
 
Admiral_Young said:
I think we'll get "X4" in the meantime afterwards and that Bryan Singer will direct it. That's my prediction :)
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Hmmm, my feeling is the exact opposite. If this movie is a flop, it probably puts an end to movies with X-Men in the title for a while. If it's a hit, I reckon we'll get more First Class movies. Either way, I think movies set after X3 (with the possible exception of a Wolverine movie) are like prime-universe Star Trek - they're just not going to happen for a while.
 
I understand that the intention is for First Class to be the beginning of a trilogy. I read a Singer quote today on io9:

That's one reason we wanted to call the film ‘First Class' even though it isn't the [Jeff Parker-penned story arc called] ‘First Class' in the comics as fans know it. You couldn't really tell that story without going even earlier and explaining how they got there and how it came to be. I liked the title, so we kept it, but this is a prelude in a way that will eventually lead to the [scenarios] that fit in more clearly with the ‘First Class' comics and situations.
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Captaindemotion said:
Admiral_Young said:
I think we'll get "X4" in the meantime afterwards and that Bryan Singer will direct it. That's my prediction :)
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Hmmm, my feeling is the exact opposite. If this movie is a flop, it probably puts an end to movies with X-Men in the title for a while. If it's a hit, I reckon we'll get more First Class movies. Either way, I think movies set after X3 (with the possible exception of a Wolverine movie) are like prime-universe Star Trek - they're just not going to happen for a while.
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If X3 made enough money for them to consider making this to continue the X-Men franchiese, then I see this making enough to continue it. Just like they said in the article, even if it's bad folks will spend money on it just to see how bad in order to blog about it. Even if die hard fans hate it, kids will love it. X3 & Transformers 2 showed us that. That's still a green light to continue because it's still making it's money back, good or bad.

Unless it's Fantastic Four bad, I think X-Men will be secure.
 
I'm not sure what's hard to grasp about them doing sequels and prequels at the same time. As I said before X4 has been discussed for development by Fox. This article from last year would indicate that Laura and Singer have talked about it. It's on hold for now but that doesn't mean it's not going to move forward. There's no reason that Fox can't have three different X-Men films going on at the same time. I think this article was posted earlier in the thread.

http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2010/03/18/bryan-singer-and-the-xmen-together-again/
 
Admiral_Young said:
I'm not sure what's hard to grasp about them doing sequels and prequels at the same time. As I said before X4 has been discussed for development by Fox. This article from last year would indicate that Laura and Singer have talked about it. It's on hold for now but that doesn't mean it's not going to move forward. There's no reason that Fox can't have three different X-Men films going on at the same time. I think this article was posted earlier in the thread.

http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2010/03/18/bryan-singer-and-the-xmen-together-again/
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Besides overkill and general audience confusion?
An older audience of non-comic book readers will have a harder time distinguishing from old to new X-Men films if done at the same time. It's a great risk to loose a part of the audience because it relates to loss of revenue.
 
I don't see either of those reasons being valid ones for not doing a sequel. They wouldn't be out at the same time. "The Wolverine" is supposed to be out next year...or probably will be. If X4 is green lit it most likely won't be out until 2013/2014. Same with a sequel to First Class. I don't see the problem here. As for audience confusion...why would there be? "The Wolverine" is a Wolverine film. "X-Men:First Class" is about the early years of the team etc, "X4" continues things from "X3".
 
Admiral_Young said:
I don't see either of those reasons being valid ones for not doing a sequel. They wouldn't be out at the same time. "The Wolverine" is supposed to be out next year...or probably will be. If X4 is green lit it most likely won't be out until 2013/2014. Same with a sequel to First Class. I don't see the problem here. As for audience confusion...why would there be? "The Wolverine" is a Wolverine film. "X-Men:First Class" is about the early years of the team etc, "X4" continues things from "X3".
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As I said, you're asking a older audience of non-comic book readers to keep track of all of that. We can because we grew up on these characters and can distinguish when all this takes place. An older audience that hasn't, can't. You're asking folks who first exposer to X-Men are these films and for them to be swift enough to distinguish First Class Beast from X4 Beast, for example. The general public isn't that clever.

Right now I'm sure a big concern for the studio is, if the public will remember Deadpool being in Wolverine by the time his solo film comes out. I'm pretty sure more than half don't by now.

Isn't it bad enough the comics have a fucked up timeline, must the films now have that too?
 
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Admiral_Young said:
I'm not sure what's hard to grasp about them doing sequels and prequels at the same time. As I said before X4 has been discussed for development by Fox. This article from last year would indicate that Laura and Singer have talked about it. It's on hold for now but that doesn't mean it's not going to move forward. There's no reason that Fox can't have three different X-Men films going on at the same time. I think this article was posted earlier in the thread.

http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2010/03/18/bryan-singer-and-the-xmen-together-again/
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Besides overkill and general audience confusion?
An older audience of non-comic book readers will have a harder time distinguishing from old to new X-Men films if done at the same time. It's a great risk to loose a part of the audience because it relates to loss of revenue.
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Agreed. I can't think of a series or franchise where the studio alternated between movies set in a different time scale. Even if you look at Star Trek, once TNG began to air on tv, the box office of the original crew movies began to fall.

Apart from anything else, it's now been nearly 5 years since X3, during which time Superman and Spider-man have both been rebooted, FF looks likely to follow suit. There has been no real buzz or serious talk about an X4. Patrick Stewart is 70, McKellen is something similar, Halle Berry is in her 40s, James Marsden and Famke Jansen's characters were killed off. Where would they go with it?

It seems very clear that the studio and Singer see the prequels as the way to go. I know Singer has made noises about an X4 but I take that as seriously as I took talk about a sequel to Superman Returns.
 
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