We still don’t know very much about X-Men: First Class, the Cold War-era preboot in which a much younger gang of mutants puts on retro-fab bright blue-and-yellow costumes to fight Fidel Castro, Black Ops-style. So treasure the short, intriguing clip from the film that just hit the Internet, in which a young Professor X (James McAvoy) makes a presentation in CIA headquarters about the oncoming rise of superpowered individuals. Suffice it to say, the era-appropriate G-Men act like era-appropriate toolboxes. (Also, am I crazy, or is Oliver Platt the spitting image of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara? Maybe I have been playing too much Black Ops.) Check out the scene below:Â
May 11
2011
03:40 PM ET
'X-Men: First Class': Watch a clip from the mysterious prequel
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I hope the climactic fight between Michael Fassbender (Erik Lehnsherr/ Magneto) and Kevin Bacon (Sebastian Shaw) will knock everyone on their ass and be so amazing and action-packed, audiences all over the world will be left breathless.
Yes Dalton!!
I hope that they include some of the following X-Men members in future prequels/sequels:
Anole, Ariel, Armor, Bishop, Blindfold, Boom Boom, Cable, Caliban, Cannonball, Chamber, Changeling, Cipher, Cloak and Dagger, Cypher, Dazzler, Dust,
Elixir, Forge, Gentle, Graymalkin, Nate Grey, Hellion, Hepzibah, Husk, Ink, Joseph, Karma, Lady Mastermind, Lifeguard, Lockheed, Longshot, Maggott, Magik, Magma, Marrow, Marvel Girl, Mercury, Mimic, Mirage, Namor, Northstar, Omega, Sentinel, Petra, Pixie, Polaris, Prodigy, Revanche, Cecilia Reyes, Rockslide, Sage, Shadowcat, Slipstream, Stacy X, Sunfire, Sunspot, Surge, Sway, Thunderbird (John Proudstar), Thunderbird (Neal Shaara), Warlock, Warpath, Wolf Cub, X-23, Shen Xorn,
I look forward to seeing some of the following villains in future prequels/sequels:
Apocalypse, Arcade, Bastion, Black Tom Cassidy, Dark Beast, Exodus, Cameron Hodge, Krakoa, Legion, Living Monolith, Mastermind, Mesmero, Mr. Sinister, Mojo, Cassandra Nova, Omega Red, Onslaught, Predator X, Proteus, Madelyne Pryor, Sauron, Selene, Shadow King, Silver Samurai, Spiral, Stryfe, Sublime, Sugar Man, Vulcan, Wendigo, X-Cutioner, Kuan-Yin Xorn
I look forward to seeing some of the following X-Men enemy teams in future prequels/sequels:
Acolytes, Alliance of Evil, Children of the Vault, Clan Akkaba, Dark Riders, Dark X-Men, Demons of Limbo, Externals, Factor Three, Freedom Force, Gene Nation, Hell’s Belles, Hellions, Horsemen of Apocalypse, Marauders, Mutant Liberation Front, Nasty Boys, Neo, Neyaphem, Omega Gang, Press Gang, Reavers, Rising Sons, Savage Land Mutates, Upstarts, X-Cell
I hope Claire Merrick gets out of her rubber room for some air soon.
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Funny; you had me at McAvoy.
I would have already seen this movie as I’m a big fan of the XMen movie franchise.
However, I also worship James McAvoy and could listen to him read the phone book for two hours.
Take a number, sister, I’m first
I need to assemble the x – men to take out Trump, S Palin, the tea bagged joker party, and the rest of the republican party .
because that’s relevant.
Very cool…looking forward to the film.
And I will assemble them to “take out” all pie-in-the-sky liberal Democrats before more people fall under their evil sway.
How’s that for turning popcorn FUN into a tirade, w g alvira?
For some reason I think Mystique in this looks really weird compared to the other movies… Especially the little girl Mystique. She looks creepy.
“they had me at McAvoy”
Best comment ever.
um “you had me at McAvoy”
i can’t wait to see this movie and i’m not even an x-head(that was my exwife which is why we’re divorced HAR-HAR!)
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First Class NO WAY! When I read the comics the first class was: Jean Grey, Cyclops, Angel, Beast, and Ice Man. Those are the cahtacrers I loved and that’s who this movie should have been about. The competition between Angel and Cyclops for team leader and Jeans affection kept me buying and reading plus this all took place in the 60′s. When will the real FIRST CLASS be made into a movie?
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