Nothing I am about to write makes sense to me on a Hollywood business level, but it sounds utterly delightful on a moviegoer level:
X-Men: First Class will be set in the 60s.
Harry Knowles talked to producer Bryan Singer about the prequel, which Matthew Vaughn is shooting London, and spilled the beans that the film will be set during the era that Marvel was originally publishing the first comics. Expect to see Professor X walking and with a head of hair, and to watch as he and Magneto form the X-Men. The bad guys will be the Hellfire Club, with Kevin Bacon as Sebastian Shaw. Knowles, who provides no direct quotes from Singer (which is kind of frustrating), keeps using ‘James Bond’ as a descriptor – I’m imagining he’s talking about the style and fashion of the Sean Connery Bond films.
According to Knowles, the costumes will be closer to comic book costumes than any other in recent film history. The team will be big, and there are more characters joining who we don’t yet know about, but there will not be a Scott Summers or a Jean Grey.
I guess those two are missing because we already saw how they joined the team, and Vaughn’s film seems to be trying to maintain some rough and weird continuity with the previous films, and with X-Men Origins: Wolverine. I don’t know how anybody at Fox thinks that a superhero movie set in the 60s will be a hit, since they turned down Peyton Reed’s vision for a 1963-set Fantastic Four, but fuck it, I’m just happy it’s happening (although honestly I’d rather see a Silver Age FF film; the X-Men didn’t really hit their strides as characters until the 70s anyway, and the early, failed run of the book isn’t my favorite).
I can’t wait to get a look at these costumes. I’ve heard that the film is moving forward without a really solid script – not that surprising considering how quick the turnaround on this has been – but I hope that Vaughn’s vision is strong enough to make it work.
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Maybe it's going to just have a Silver Age feel OR is it possible that there might be 2 teams of X-Men? The Scott and Jean team being part of the second, later team that Xavier forms after the split with Magneto? I know in X-Men 3, we see them both together when they go to check out Jean, but she was still really young and probably years away from making the roster anyway.
whoa
Just cut remove 3 of those characters in the picture and give the flying one tits!
This has horrible written all over it. And by the time it's released it will be the fifth/sixth X-MEN movie without a proper Cyclops in it. I wish they'd give up any attempts to preserve continuity with the other movies and just focus on getting X-MEN right.
All aboard the train………..wreck
Well that's … baffling.
Cool, I guess.
Doesn't make since to be sincerely faithful to the time period, but eliminate Cyke & Jean though.
This is great news! I was completely unenthused at this movie being a prequel with Cyclops and Jean, but now, this has real potential. Costumes and all!
Wow, another X-men movie without the leader (Cyclops) of the X-men. I'm officially out again, like i was with X-Men 3. (still haven't watched it). Fuck Fox, Fuck Vaughn. If your going to ruin the X-men give them back to Marvel.
Wowee I say, a live action Incredibles! In spite of the fear of the incredibly tainting powers of Fox, they did do pretty good with the first two X films. And Singer is involved again. And Vaughn must have gotten a lot of control over the film, to have come back to them. If anybody can make a sixties Bondish young mutant film work, he surely can.
If this is about Xavier and Magneto in their late twenties, and they're trying to keep this sort of in the chronology of the other movies, Cyclops and Jean can't be in it, except maybe cameos as ultrasound photos on a doctor's wall. It makes sense now that characters like Beast and Banshee are in this as they're older characters and would have been around before the ones we've already seen.
Still, there's no way this is actually going to line up with the earlier movies exactly, so it's best not to think about it too much. I probably would have preferred a straight reboot with the original Lee/Kirby characters, but whatever. I've seen enough comic book movies made that I'm used to settling by now.
Matthew Vaughn has Hi-res photos of Tom rothman fucking goats. That's the only thing that explains this movie..
While I started reading them in the 80s with the new crew, I can understand the appeal of the 60s group and the 60s settings. I think the 60s X-Men have become more interesting long the way than the boring Wolverine and the rest. Especially given what was happening at the time with the Civil Rights movement and so forth. The 60s was a time of change yet they were also very much close to the 50s wich was a more supressed time as far as attitude. And that's what appealing, a bunch of stiff people living a lie, trying to hide something while keeping that clean image. That's why all the best suspense films occured in the 60s. And it's always a cool angle for genre. Hence the Bond flicks(and now X-Men).
I think it's funny how people keep getting excited about these Fox produced comic book properties only to be extremely disappointed once they realize, oh yea, Fox doesn't give a shit about making quality films. Look, I know they got Vaughn and Singer attached but since when has having great talent stopped Rothman from fucking a film in the ass so hard the audience feels it. The fact that this film is about to start shooting without a solid script is par for the course with Fox and Vaughn's " I do what I want" attitude doesn't seem to mesh well with Fox's "do what we say" mentality. I'll bet that in a year from now, we're going to get reports that Vaughn is pissed over studio interference and the product that is eventually released has Fox's tramp stamp all over it. Also, while I love the 60's setting with retro costumes and all, I'd rather they forget about all these bullshit side characters and just give us the core team seen in the picture above. I mean, it's not an X-Men film without Cyclops leading the team imo.
This sounds more like a reboot than a simple prequel. Yet why make this while concurrently making Wolverine 2 in a different continuity? What a mess.
I was delighted until the very last paragraph of Devin's report. Oh boy. Here we go again. This movie is moving along without a script for a summer 2011 release. It's going to be another shitty superhero film from Fox whether it's set in the 1960s or not. God, I wish Fox would get bought out by another studio.
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