![]() CIA agent Moira MacTaggert (Rose Byrne) infiltrates a Hellfire Club shindig to find that Shaw, who looks younger now than he did eighteen years earlier, and his telepathic love interest Emma Frost (January Jones) are intervening in a U.S. The film then jumps ahead to 1962, where it remains. Meanwhile, the privileged other boy, Charles Xavier of New York's Westchester County, possesses telepathy, a gift he uses to get a homeless young house intruder named Raven to reveal her true mutant nature and become his adopted sister. There, a commanding officer, Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon), demands that the boy demonstrate his telekinetic powers, threatening violence to his mother if he does not. ![]() Erik Lensherr, the one who will later be known as Magneto, is separated from his parents at a Nazi concentration camp in Poland. Vaughn and his writing partner Jane Goldman receive screenplay credit along with Ashley Edward Miller and Zack Stentz, a team that has graduated from genre television ("Andromeda", "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles", "Fringe") to summer tentpole films like this and Thor.įirst Class will not be confused for the previous X-Men movies, because not only have the roles been recast and youthened, but because Vaughn has rewritten some rules to make the self-standing movie he wants, which he does with the blessing of Bryan Singer, the first two X-Men films' director, who gets story and producer credits here.įirst Class opens in the 1940s, depicting contrast between two young boys. Now, there is X-Men: First Class, a prequel and a reboot that hands the reins over to Matthew Vaughn, a British director who earned modest commercial success but strong critical renown on the films Layer Cake, Stardust, and Kick-Ass. The original film trilogy came to a close with 2006's X-Men: The Last Stand, but the series continued with 2009's spin-off X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Amidst these beginnings and endings, the X-Men remain in the forefront. Next year brings the end of Christopher Nolan's Batman saga, the launch of a new Spider-Man series, and the first major franchise crossover in The Avengers. Studios and audiences haven't tired of superhero movies, but enough time has passed for a new age/wave/generation to begin. Within a few years, there were Sam Raimi's blockbuster Spider-Man movies, reboots for Batman and Superman, and a host of vehicles for other heroes and villains of varied iconicity. The success of X-Men paved the way for the genre to thrive. The 1990s' top franchise had fizzled out with Batman & Robin.Īnd the R-rated Blade (1998) was not indicative of the superhero movies that would become Marvel Studios' specialty. It seems fair to label 2000's X-Men as the start of the comic book era Hollywood still finds itself in. Xavier), Hugh Jackman (Logan/Wolverine - uncredited), Rebecca Romijn (Older Mystique - uncredited) ![]() Hank McCoy/Beast), Oliver Platt (Man in Black Suit), Jason Flemyng (Azazel), Lucas Till (Alex Summers/Havok), Edi Gathegi (Armando Muñoz/Darwin), Kevin Bacon (Sebastian Shaw), Caleb Landry Jones (Sean Cassidy/Banshee), Zoë Kravitz (Angel Salvadore), Matt Craven (CIA Director McCone), Alex González (Janos Quested/Riptide), Rade Sherbedgia (Russian General), Glenn Morshower(Colonel Hendry), Bill Milner (Young Erik Lensherr), Laurence Belcher (Charles Xavier - 12 Years), Morgan Lily (Young Raven - 10 Years), Ray Wise (Secretary of State), Don Creech (William Stryker), James Remar (US General), Michael Ironside (Captain), Annabelle Wallis (Co-ed), Beth Goddard (Mrs. Theatrical Release: J/ Running Time: 132 Minutes / Rating: PG-13 / Music Listĭirector: Matthew Vaughn / Writers: Ashley Edward Miller, Zack Stentz, Jane Goldman, Matthew Vaughn (screenplay) Sheldon Turner, Bryan Singer (story)Ĭast: James McAvoy (Charles Xavier - 24 Years), Michael Fassbender (Erik Lensherr/Magneto), Rose Byrne (Moira MacTaggert), Jennifer Lawrence (Raven Darkholme/Mystique), January Jones (Emma Frost), Nicholas Hoult (Dr. ![]()
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