X-Men 1st Class Photos

I'm a huge geek girl and comics are right up my alley.  Bryan Singer is bringing the X-Men back and I'm pretty excited about this.  Despite the bad reviews some of the movies have gotten.  I like the intent of the movies and would always spend my money on seeing them in the theatre unless there is a pretty good reason.

The 60s say Hi!

Whelp, the gang's all here.  But not really, there are some famous X-Men that didn't make the cut.

The plot of this film is still under wraps, but it presents a world where superpowered mutants are living in secret and don’t face the public scrutiny and prejudice that are central themes in the earlier films, which are primarily set in the modern day. The friendship of future foes Xavier and Lehnsherr is the heart of the film — Singer says the two have a common cause and different approaches and he even used the life trajectories of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X as a sort of shorthand for their veering paths. Despite rumors to the contrary, Vaughn said the movie will be the first X-Men film without the most famous face of the franchise, Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine, and key characters such as Cyclops, Storm and Jean Grey give way to new screen arrivals such as Emma Frost (January Jones), Azazel (Jason Flemyng), Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon) and Havok (Lucas Till). 

“This isn’t a reboot, so I’m not replacing anyone, in which case you might want to try to be as different as possible and stay away from what had been done before,” James McAvoy said. “This is a prequel, so I’m the same character, just younger, but the challenge for me [sic] is to show the same person in a different place in their life; to show someone before [sic] they’re this saint.”

I'm excited about this movie.  I once tried to go back and collect as many of the old X-Men as I could but that got to be an expensive habit.  Nowadays, there are books of the comics from the first to the last and you can buy the graphic novel of the missing comic books to get the background story.  For most people though reading any of the comics is too much money and they rely on the movies. 

I hope this is as good as I want it to be.  The problem with the X-Men is that it is a diverse cast and you have to have a central story and a central character to pull things together and to focus the story.  In the last three it was the battle versus Magneto/the world and Wolverine.  If they make it about Prof. X and Magneto before they were devil and saint then things could get pretty boring.  Hopefully, Singer won't let anyone forget the X-Men have got to fight some people.

[Source]