Producer/Director Bryan Singer (Superman Returns, Jack the Giant Killer) unleashed some new details about 20th Century Fox‘s latest foray into the X-Men universe, the Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass, Stardust) directed, X-Men: First Class.
From AICN:
The film takes place in the 1960’s. John F Kennedy is the President of the United States. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X are on TV doing marches. There is a spirit of a hopeful future that was prevalent in that time. We will see how Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr met – and how they dreamt of a future with Mutant & Human kind. They’re going to be in their late twenties. Xavier – as played by James McAvoy will not be in his wheelchair to begin the film – but we will see how he wound up in a wheelchair. I asked if McAvoy would have a nice shiny chrome dome – and folks. We’re going to see Professor X when he still had hair. We’ll see McAvoy and Fassbender’s Magneto formulate what it is they are attempting by creating the X-MEN.
Now Bryan wanted us to know this is not the conventional FIRST CLASS comic – but rather a new beginning for X-MEN. Set in the 60s – Vaughn is technologically inspired by JAMES BOND’s tech of the time. The costumes will be far more comic bookish than we’ve seen before – and while Scott and Jean aren’t here – Cyclops’ brother Alex Summers aka Havoc will be, as played by Lucas Till.
With January Jones and Kevin Bacon playing Emma Frost and Sebastian Shaw – we will be getting the HELLFIRE CLUB. Looks like filming will begin with Xavier at Oxford University in the 60s. And Bryan is excited that the film is going to have a much more international feel than the prior X-MEN movies. They’ll be shooting in England & the United States – and they’ll be representing other locales around the globe as well, but would only tell me that Russia (aka The Soviet Union… CCCP) will be amongst them.
The film stars James McAvoy, Kevin Bacon, January Jones, Caleb Landry Jones, Lucas Till, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Edi Gathegi, Jason Flemyng, Oliver Platt, Bill Milner, Morgan Lily and Zoë Kravitz.
X-Men: First Class is slated to hit theaters on June 3rd, 2011.
