20th Century Fox released the X-Men: First Class teaser on Thursday. Soon after, Michael Fassbender, who plays Magneto in this Marvel mutant prequel, offered an audio commentary for the footage.
Now producer Bryan Singer, who directed X-Men and X2: X-Men United, has come forward with his thoughts on the upcoming movie. And he quickly revealed that X-Men: First Class is being used to setup future sequels.
Bryan Singer began by discussing the connection between Alex (aka Havok) and Scott (aka Cyclops) Summers, who are brothers in the comic books, but because of the shift in era to the 1960s, don't have that same storyline on-screen.
"Yes, the timeline is different. It wouldn't physically fit for him to be the brother of Cyclops. We take some liberties on that. There are notions, but, um, I don't want to give away certain interrelations, but let's just say there are some things that do adhere to the comic books and do so in a way the fans will get a kick out of. And those things can, perhaps, move forward into the future.... That's one reason we wanted to call the film '
X-Men: First Class' even though it isn't the [
Jeff Parker -penned story arc called] 'First Class' in the comics as fans know it. You couldn't really tell that story without going even earlier and explaining how they got there and how it came to be. I liked the title, so we kept it, but this is a prelude in a way that will eventually lead to the [scenarios] that fit in more clearly with the ''
X-Men: First Class' comics and situations."
Bryan Singer then went onto talk about his favorite characters in the upcoming adventure.
"We have younger versions of Mystique and Beast, so I'm very excited about them and what they bring to the film.
Jennifer Lawrence's work [as Mystique] and
Nicholas Hoult's portrayal of Beast - these are characters that we've seen in the earlier films, but then these are very different portrayals and you have to bring a lot of attention to those. I'm also excited about
Jason Flemyng as Azazel, which is a really cool character. It's like this sinister alter ego of Nightcrawler in a way, which again brings some of the things that we like about that character but at the same time has a different quality. And I really, really like [
Lucas Till as] Havok, who we're bringing in [to the continuity] at a sort of a different time, relative to the comic book lore. It's an extremely cool character. What's great, too, about all of these characters is that they haven't honed their abilities yet. Havok is a danger to himself and everyone around him. That's where this movie is at - the recruiting of these mutants and bringing them together."
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X-Men: First Class comes to theaters June 3rd, 2011 and stars Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Caleb Landry Jones, Nicholas Hoult, Kevin Bacon, Jennifer Lawrence, Edi Gathegi, Jason Flemyng. The film is directed by Matthew Vaughn.
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