X-Men: First Class (June 3, 2011) (MC: 65, RT: 86%)

**Elvis** · 2011-02-14 19:31

looks good :O

**Sunrider** · 2011-02-15 01:04

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... dare I hope?

**Guyverarmor** · 2011-02-15 16:39

After Xmen 3, I am willing to watch almost anything that could offer any redemption

**Pikarya** · 2011-02-15 17:05

Originally Posted by Guyverarmor

After Xmen 3, I am willing to watch almost anything that could offer any redemption

^^^^This tenfold.

**Salodin** · 2011-02-15 21:42

Wasn't liking this until I saw the trailer...

God help me!

**6souls** · 2011-02-15 22:06

**Kaslo** · 2011-02-15 23:19

Comicvine broke down how it broke movie continuity.

**6souls** · 2011-02-17 03:02

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Mad Men star January Jones talks to AOL’s Moviefone about the new season as Betty Draper and upcoming movies including Unknown (which opens this weekend) and X-Men: First Class (which opens in June). In her interview she also discusses the comparisons to Grace Kelly and her revealing costume in the new X-Men movie. Here's some of the things Jones talks about;

On Grace Kelly comparisons:

"The Grace Kelly comparison, I take that with a grain of salt. She was really beautiful and great and philanthropic. I don't know how I'm supposed to live up to that."

On how revealing her Emma Frost costume in 'X-Men' is:

"I'm naked. [Laughs.] In the comics, the costume is pretty much just painted on and she has a pretty unrealistic body. So it was a challenge for me. I literally went from 'Mad Men,' packed the next day and flew to [the set in] London -- so there wasn't any time for me to do a lot of toning up or getting fit. I just had to wing it.

But we had a lot of fun with the costumes in that we wanted to make them very revealing and sexy, and they're always white and pearlized.

We got that Emma Frost look, but with a '60s twist -- and a lot of sparkles, because she turns into a diamond. We did all the research from the comic books and took bits and pieces of her costumes from different time periods and meshed it all together. We did a lot of leather."

On being involved in coming up with the costume:

"Definitely. I have to feel good in it. I'm the one who's got to wear it 18 hours a day. It was a lot of boots, a lot of hair, a lot of boobs. You can't please everyone, but the goal is to not disappoint everyone."

On what's next for Betty in 'Mad Men':

"Everybody assumes I'd like to see her happy, but it's not fun to play out. [Laughs.] I never really think about that and I never really try to guess -- because I'm always wrong."

http://geektyrant.com/news/2011/2/16...er-upcomi.html
http://blog.moviefone.com/2011/02/15...ost-interview/

**6souls** · 2011-02-22 16:21

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For those who want to know more, the cast and crew are offering people the chance to ask questions about the film via Twitter or the official Facebook page.

http://twitter.com/#!/xmenmovies
http://www.facebook.com/xmenmovies?v...47204825340005

**6souls** · 2011-02-23 00:36

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Lucas Till plays peek-a-boo in these new shots from the March 2011 issue of August Man mag.

Inside the issue, the 20-year-old actor opens up about having Havok’s super powers, his dream of becoming a real action figure and his new production company.

On being Cyclops brother:

“I definitely remember wanting to be Wolverine, but Havok is a great consolation prize. I can shoot energy beams out of my entire body, and I’m the brother of Cyclops. Havok has always historically been the brother with more potential, but because he has less control over his powers, he has always been secluded and separated.”

On becoming a real video game character:

“I’ve had two goals in my life: one was to someday be an action figure, and the other one was to be in a video game, and one of those was completed with Hannah Montana. They came out with this Ken Doll of me and this crazy HM video game. (In the game) there was this guy on the cover, wearing my clothes and I was like, ‘That’s me?!’ And I just went ahead and bought it because I thought, ‘I have to check this out,’ and there was this 35-year-old dude with a much higher voice than me doing my voice and I was like, ‘that is not me!’ X-Men is going to be my legitimate shot at getting it right.”

On loving producing more than acting:

“It’s called Grindfest, and the name suggest that we like to have fun…I like producing, or being a very creative producer, rather, where I can get a taste of what it’s like to be director without having to have all the responsibility fall on my shoulders. From the script up until seeing the final product — it’s like watching a child growing up.”

http://justjaredjr.buzznet.com/2011/...al-video-game/

more pics on the site of him attempting to be a GQ man.

**6souls** · 2011-02-28 03:15

James McAvoy leads the way to the past in ”X-Men: First Class,” which opens June 3 and presents him as a younger Charles Xavier, the mutant master who sees the world in very different ways than his frenemy, Erik, who is destined to become Magneto. Our Geoff Boucher caught up with McAvoy a few weeks ago while the 31-year-old Scottish actor was shooting the Fox film in L.A.

GB: It sounds like you had your hands full with the water-tank work here in L.A.?

JM: It was me saving Michael Fassbender’s … which is always fun. We worked together before, we met on “Band of Brothers,” which was my first TV job and probably his first or second. We both ride motorbikes, you know, scooters, around London, and every now and again, we’d pass each other and stop and give an old pump of the hand and slap on the back. He’s a lovely fellow.

GB: You and he each have a challenge — Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen are towering figures in the sci-fi and fantasy sector, and I imagine stepping into their roles must give you pause. Do you think a lot about Stewart’s work in this role, either as a place to begin or a place to avoid?

JM: I don’t think about it too much. 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 has been done before. This is a prequel, so I’m the same character, just younger, but the challenge for me — and for Michael — is to show the same person in a different place in their life, to show someone before they’re this bad guy, before they’re this saint. Charles wasn’t always a … monk, this selfless, sexless monk that he becomes.

GB: [Producer] Bryan Singer said many months ago that in his mind the story of the Charles and Erik friendship demanded to be the center of any prequel. Can you talk a bit about the physics of that friendship in this film?

JM: It’s kind of a love story, like “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” which, really, was a love story between two men. This is the first time in their lives they’ve met someone who is an equal of sorts, someone who understands them and can connect and push them too. Especially Charles, he’s fascinated with Erik and his potential. For Erik, Charles is the first person he’s trusted to really tell about his past and the first person to understand the horrible things he’s been through.

GB: Tell us about your non-monk Charles.

JM: Charles is caught up in himself. He enjoys success and is proud, and he’s not the selfless person that he becomes. You look at the relationship with Raven – who becomes Mystique – and you examine that relationship and the way he treats her like a living experiment. She’s an assistant to him and he cares for her, but there’s his ego and condescending big-brother attitude as well. You see it in the way he treats the others. In the “later” movies, he’s exorcised that from his personality. For me, trying to keep that ego as an underpinning of the character is important.

GB: Matthew Vaughn is quite the firebrand. I’m not sure I’ve ever met anyone who was more candid.

JM: He’s a really good fun, he’s a character. He’s definitely not like anybody else. But that’s the same with all these directors, isn’t it? It’s a strange breed of person, these director types, a bit dodgy aren’t they? But he really is a lot of fun to be around and there’s a lot of energy and he has a very specific thing he’s looking for and when you come in to it he’s got great people around him. It’s just an actor’s coven [on the set] if you know what I mean, there’s a community that he creates that is quite cool.

GB: At the beginning of this project, Vaughn said Hollywood was wringing all the life out the superhero genre. Thoughts?

JM: All fashions go around. At some point, the audience taste and stamina might be less, and then you see the cycle of fashion and it goes away for a while. I look at the Christian Bale movies, the Batman films, and that shows you that superhero movies don’t just have to be about men in tights. I think ‘The Dark Knight’ was really quite interesting, and if you can make movies that are that interesting, it sort of goes beyond fashion. You just try to be as good as you can and try not to get fired. Seriously, that’s a real threat with these superhero movies. People get fired all the time, and I don’t want to lose my job.

– Geoff Boucher

http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2011/...-and-sundance/

**6souls** · 2011-02-28 03:18

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Jennifer Lawrence (Raven Darkholme/Mystique) discussed the challenges of becoming Mystique, with her scaly blue skin and utter lack of clothing.

"I think I psyched myself out about [wearing body paint]," she told Parade Magazine. "But then on the actual day, the only thing you're worried about is sitting on things and not rubbing your scales off. It mostly becomes a maintenance problem and the last thing you think about is, 'Oh right, I'm virtually naked.'"

The actress also spoke a bit about how she prepared herself physically for the performance, and how for her it was very much wrapped up in issues surrounding what is an "acceptable" body image in our culture.

"When I got the part [of Mystique] and knew I had to be naked, I didn't want to look like a pre-pubescent 13-year old boy," she said. "I wanted to look like a woman so I knew I wanted to maintain my curves," she said.

"I'm so sick of seeing these skinny little women and thinking I'm supposed to look like that and thinking young girls think they should also look like that. I worked out for two hours a day for seven days a week. I thought when I started doing it, 'Oh my god, I'm going to be so skinny.' But I ended up bulking up a little bit," she continued. "I was basically on the Hugh Jackman-Wolverine diet and doing pull-ups. As soon as I stopped, I think I lost like 5 pounds in 4 days. I think when I see the movie I'm going to look like a freaking marine or something."

One of the film's other female leads, January Jones (Emma Frost) spoke about how important for her it was to take the source material seriously in an interview with Monsters and Critics.

"I was kind of intimidated by the idea, wanting to not disappoint everyone's idea of what Emma Frost should be," she said. "So I took it on very seriously, in my research and collaborating with the costume and the hair and make-up. I'm really excited to see what they think. I feel very proud of it and some of the stuff that Matthew Vaughn's shown the cast looks really amazing."

http://splashpage.mtv.com/2011/02/25...aint-mystique/