It’s big an eventful past 24 hours for Fox and director Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class.
The commotion began yesterday when a small banner depicting the entire core mutant cast in-character began circulating around the web. Reactions were decidedly mixed with some embracing the outfits designed to fit into the 1960s and pull elements from the comics, while others had a hard time wrapping their head around the idea that these youngsters where the earlier generation of the X-Men.
Today higher resolution versions of that cast banner hit the web courtesy of MSN, while a trio of stills from the film and an update on the production were shared via Hero Complex. All of the new images are together in one place for you to comb over below.
Though X-Men: First Class is locked into a June 3 release via Fox, Vaughn is still hard at work shooting the film in Los Angeles and is fighting off a ticking clock. Unlike Kick-Ass or Layer Cake where he put together the film’s on his time schedule and then shopped them around, there’s little room for error in order to meet Fox’s deadline and get photography wrapped and post-production into full swing.
Geoff Boucher’s interview at Hero Complex also confirms that X-Men: First Class is a true prequel to Brian Singer’s X-Men films and not a reboot. James McAvoy and Michael Fassbinder as Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr, respectively, are molding the evolution of their characters towards Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen’s interpretations of them throughout the film.
Pictured in the first image below are Michael Fassbender as Magneto, Rose Byrne as Dr. Moira MacTaggert, January Jones as The White Queen Emma Frost, and Jason Flemyng as Azazel.
The next picture features Nicholas Hoult as Beast, Lucas Till as Havok, Zoe Kravitz as Angel Salvadore, Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique, and James McAvoy as Professor Charles Xavier.
Rounding out the images are the first stills from the film highlighted by a chess match between Xavier and Eric.
