So Bryan Singer called Harry Knowles over at Aint in cool and gave up some new details about X-Men: First Class. Of course there's no ammount of apple O's that could make me go to aint it cool, so I'll just steal from GammaSquad's recap.
•The movie takes place in the 1960s. JFK is president. This puts a new spin on Oliver Platt playing “The Man In Black”, considering that sounds like something from a JFK assassination conspiracy.
•Kevin Bacon will be playing Sebastian Shaw, leader of the New York branch of the Hellfire Club, of which Emma Frost (January Jones) will also be a member.
•Professor Xavier (James McAvoy) and Magneto (Michael Fassbender) will be in their late 20s. Xavier will have his hair and be able to walk, but will become paralyzed during the film.
•This isn’t based on the First Class storyline in the comics. Neither Cyclops nor Jean Grey will be in this.
•Singer says the costumes will have more of a comic book feel and that director Matthew Vaughn is inspired by the era’s James Bond style gadgets
~GammaSquad
Ok, so all the casting nonsense we've been hearing about is starting to make sense. Banshee, Sebastian Shaw and Nightcrawler's dad (ugh) should all fit nicely in a movie set in the 60s. The only character that kinda feels shoehorned in is Emma Frost, but I guess someone has to wear a corset.
Just going out on a limb here but I'll bet a couple of these so called first classers will bite it in the eventual battle with the Hellfire club. Leading to the ideological split between Mags and Xavier. I'm still not sure this all of this will end of meshing with the flashback scene in X3 or with Emma Frost's quickie cameo in Wolverine but I guess it's as close as you're going to get to a cohesive X-verse with Fox at the helm.
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