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By TK | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (35)

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Finally, we get a look at the cast of Matthew Vaughn’s origin tale, X-Men: First Class and it’s… well… it’s OK. Not really much to rally around, but then again, it’s just a promo shot, not in high resolution, and without seeing anyone in action, there isn’t much ado to be made of it. Take a look:

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Doesn’t exactly pull my zipper down, but it at least feels a little less clunky than the Captain America stills we showed a couple of days ago. For those non-nerds, go fuck yourselves here’s a list of who’s who, from left to right:

  • Michael Fassbender as Erik Lensherr, aka Magneto, master of magnetism

  • Rose Byrne as Moira MacTaggert, the non-mutant genetic scientist and love interest of Charles Xavier

  • January Jones as Emma Frost, aka The White Queen of the Hellfire Club, appropriately dressed

  • Jason Flemyng as Azazel, one of the demonic Neyaphem mutants and supposed father of Nightcrawler

  • Nicholas Hoult as Henry “Hank” McCoy, aka Beast

  • Lucas Till as Alex Summers, aka Havok. Younger brother of Cyclops (not shown)

  • Zoe Kravitz (daughter of Lenny) as Angel Salvadore, a mutant who for some reason has had a bunch of different power manifestations, including wings, the ability to spit acid, insect-like traits, and most recently, the ability to shoot fire and ice from her right and left hands, respectively

  • Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique

  • James McAvoy as Charles Xavier, aka Professor X.

What’s curious is how many mutants that will be in the film that aren’t shown, including Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon), Banshee (Caleb Landry Jones), Armando Muñoz / Darwin (Edi Gathegi), Riptide (Alex Gonzalez), and Thomas (Tony Rich).

Which is to say, there are a fuckload of mutants in this thing. It makes sense, when you think about it, since part of the film’s focus is on the formation of Xavier’s mutant academy. But still, history has shown us that too many characters can fuck up a superhero movie faster than you can say “Ratnerfucking.”

Don’t disappoint me, Matthew Vaughn.

(source: FSR)









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Comments

ratnerfuck you

Posted by: greg at January 19, 2011 9:04 AM

Why is the Beast blue in X-Men First Class? This bothers me.
I have to try to sooth my nerd-rage with the fact that Nicolas Hoult might be pretty awesome.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at January 19, 2011 9:17 AM

i think i'm most excited about seeing darwin brought to the screen. my excitement will build until i finally watch and they ruin him for me forever.

Posted by: gp at January 19, 2011 9:17 AM

Horrid poster. I'm giving less of a ratnerfuck about this movie with every passing day.

Posted by: logar at January 19, 2011 9:19 AM

Also, Nicholas Hoult is super pretty...WHY WOUD YOU OBSCURE THAT WITH BLUE FUZZ?

But thanks for my morning McAvoy, TK. Better than coffee.

Posted by: coveredinbees at January 19, 2011 9:22 AM

I already hate this movie.

Posted by: Chickaboom at January 19, 2011 9:23 AM

Damnit, Pajiba. You just made me snicker in an unattractive way, gaining a sideeye from the women beside me.

Posted by: anitra_larae at January 19, 2011 9:27 AM

How did I not know Nicholas Hoult was in this? I just finished watching Skins and my love for him is renewed. I am excited for this (but then again, I often like the movies that get burned around here).

Posted by: Patty O'Green at January 19, 2011 9:32 AM

One of the good things about Xmen 2 was showing the quick glimpses of all the students in the X-Mansion. We rewound quite a few times so my husband could try to identify them.

Posted by: mswas at January 19, 2011 9:32 AM

Why is the Beast blue in X-Men First Class? This bothers me.
I have to try to sooth my nerd-rage with the fact that Nicolas Hoult might be pretty awesome.

Posted by: Optimus Rhyme at January 19, 2011 9:17 AM

He doesn't start off this way in the movie. He starts off like he does in the comics, no blue hair, but transforms into the hairy blue beast at some point during the film. Just like Professor X goes from having hair to bald at some point as well.

Posted by: Forbiddendonut at January 19, 2011 9:39 AM

A few notes:

-This is an "unauthorized" image, so I suspect that an "authorized" image would suck a bit less. Still, no amount of posturing & Photoshop will make this movie any less crapulent.

-Seems that Fox continues to play Leftover Salad with the X-Men property, stuffing in random X-Men characters for the sake of using their film rights. Why else would you have Blob & Gambit in the Wolverine movie, or this Azazel guy (WTF) in First Class?

-There is no way - no way - that this image is better than the Captain America images from the other day. Get yo head checked!

Posted by: the new transported man at January 19, 2011 9:51 AM

Fassbender, yeah! Yeah, Fassbender, yeah, yeah!

Yeeeeeaaaahhhhhhhh, Fassbenderrrrrrrrrrr!

Anyway I don’t really give a rat(ner)’s arse about this film, but at least the Fassiest Bender of them all is in it.

I don’t even think that he’ll do a particularly good Magneto, and he will certainly suffer by comparison; trying to fill some pretty big shoes as he is.

But, Fassbender.
Yeah.

Posted by: zeke the pig at January 19, 2011 9:57 AM

Interesting.

I'm a bit worried about the amount of mutants, but that was always a problem with the comic books as well. With so many titles, they were always populating their books with tons of mutants -- which made the whole idea of genetic mutants living amongst a world that fears and hates them seem odd (since there were so many of them).

Posted by: Fredo at January 19, 2011 9:59 AM

Yeah, loads & loads of mutants, but even casual fans know which characters suck & which need to be in an X-Men movie. Fox executives, evidently, do not.

That Azazel character, for example, is apparently considered one of the worst characters of the franchise.

Posted by: the new transported man at January 19, 2011 10:15 AM

Why isn't this franchise dead yet? That image is about as exciting as a bowl of three-day-old oatmeal. And the last two installments were like being raped in the eyeballs by that crotch device from Se7en.

Posted by: Case at January 19, 2011 10:25 AM

Yeah, I'm not sure I could call this image "less clunky" than the Cap photos we've seen.

Why is Xavier in costume? He should be in a damn suit and tie at all times. Magneto in an X-Suit works, because he was the more physically active of the two. As for the hair... eh, whatever. The real question is: When does he become Wheels?

Posted by: RobP at January 19, 2011 11:03 AM

Is it just me, or is anyone else getting a Gaius Baltar vibe from Fassbender in that photo? Yes? No?

No matter, Michael Fassbender is still very attractive and I would still like to touch his swimsuit area.

Posted by: jM at January 19, 2011 11:14 AM

I, too, am totally excited about Fassbender. Team him up with McAvoy and my panties just might implode.

Posted by: badkittyuno at January 19, 2011 11:33 AM

To be a picky nerd: who is this Angel girl? Why is it a girl? I was thinking they'd go with Worthington with wings & maybe transform him into his amazing blue-skinned incarnation with the deadly metal wings that can shoot feathers.

Posted by: harlequin at January 19, 2011 11:42 AM

harlequin: Some other character. Likely scenario is that somebody wanted more ethnic diversity so they looked at the list of characters that came with the film rights & picked that one.

Posted by: the new transported man at January 19, 2011 11:48 AM

It looks like X-Men: Gossip Girl Edition. And as I told Jay last night, there's so many things wrong with January Jones. So many. And most of them are obvious in that poster.

Posted by: Figgy at January 19, 2011 12:16 PM

Moira, go put your glasses back on!
(I liked her all science-y. Gah! I have to stop reading this thread. It brings the mad every time.)

Posted by: Chickaboom at January 19, 2011 12:21 PM

I wonder. and again this is pure speculation....

I wonder if this is somehow combining original x-men with that of the Ultimates universe? It would make sense......somewhat.

Posted by: Lordninja at January 19, 2011 12:38 PM

Oh God, there is no hope for this movie. And yet I still hope it does good for the slight chance I might get to be in the sequel...

Posted by: Littlejon2001 at January 19, 2011 1:13 PM

Likely scenario is that somebody wanted more ethnic diversity so they looked at the list of characters that came with the film rights & picked that one.

Angel Salvadore also has a history with Emma Frost, but isn't a large amount of retconning a foregone conclusion with these types of films?

Posted by: branded at January 19, 2011 1:15 PM

What, no Storm? Fuck that. Racists.

Posted by: Rest In Peace at January 19, 2011 1:36 PM

@jM

Yeah, I totally thought the guy on the left was Baltar. I forgot Michael Fassbender was in this.

Posted by: MM at January 19, 2011 2:04 PM

I was not aware Emma Frost was a Victoria's Secret Angel.

Posted by: Snrub at January 19, 2011 2:31 PM

I was not aware Emma Frost was a Victoria's Secret Angel.

Exactamundo. Looks like something out of a 1988 Frederick's of Hollywood catalog.

Posted by: the new transported man at January 19, 2011 3:11 PM

Emma Frost looks exactly like Aphrodite from Hercules/Xena. How intimidating, oooh!

Posted by: mb at January 19, 2011 5:36 PM

I'm having flashbacks to Highlander here...we have a Scot playing an American and an American playing a Scot.

Of course if James McAvoy were asked to play a Spanish immortal I'm sure he wouldn't make a bags of it like Connery did.

Posted by: Somnopolis at January 19, 2011 5:47 PM

Is this a continuation of "Which movie you would watch based on the still/poster/whatever", 'cause if it is, I ain't watching this mess.
I'm probably one of the few who DETESTED all three X-Men movies and I'm not seeing any reason to buck that trend now.

Posted by: Four Eyes at January 19, 2011 7:00 PM

C'mon, guys. Emma Frost has been wearing Fredericks of Hollywood since the 1970s. Fact.

Posted by: RobP at January 19, 2011 8:24 PM

And this just happened:

http://blog.newsarama.com/2011/01/19/three-new-stills-from-x-men-first-class/

I'm slightly more encouraged.

Posted by: RobP at January 19, 2011 8:27 PM

Is it just me, or is anyone else getting a Gaius Baltar vibe from Fassbender in that photo?

It's as though you read my mind, jM.


Those other pictures sure are better, but I'm not very hopeful for this movie at all.

Posted by: Uda at January 20, 2011 5:53 AM