Bryan Singer Makes some BIG Revelations about X-MEN: FIRST CLASS!

Producer Bryan Singer has made some interesting and rather big revelations concerning the upcoming X-Men: First Class movie that will be directed by Matthew Vaughn.

In fact, this is the most we've learned about the movie so far besides all the casting news that have popped up recently.

- The movie will be set in the 1960s and we'll get to see President John F. Kennedy as well as Martin Luther King and Malcolm X - probably on TV.

- We'll see Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) at the time he was at Oxford and before he lost his hair and gets in the wheelchair. In fact, we'll learn what put him there. We will also get to see how Professor X and Eric Lensherr a.k.a. Magneto (Michael Fassbender) met when they were in their late twenties and what they were attempting to do by creating the X-MEN.

- The movie will have a much more international feel, with filming set to take place in the United-States and England, as well as Russia. Singer didn't want to reveal what other locales will be used in the movie yet.

- Scott Summers a.k.a. Cyclops and Jean Grey are NOT in the movie but Cyclops' brother Alex Summers a.k.a Havok (Lucas Till) will be in it.

- Kevin Bacon is set to play Sebastian Shaw, the leader of the Hellfire Club. Singer didn't want to confirm if we would see Shaw with his trademark ponytail and Hellfire Club garb but the guess is that we will. In his opinion, the Hellfire Club belongs to the 60s era and it would be wrong to try and modernize it.

- The costumes will be much closer to their comic-book counterparts than the costumes we saw in the previous three X-Men movies. We'll also apparently get to see what these costumes look like within the next month.

- The technology in X-Men: First Class will be inspired by the James Bond movies set in the 1960s. In fact, seems they want to give the movie a 'Bond feel' to it.

Does that make you confident and excited with the direction Producer Bryan Singer appears to be taking the movie in? Are you now looking even more forward to June 3rd, 2011?

[Via AintItCool]

Guess Who Kevin Bacon May Play Now in X-Men: First Class

A few days ago, it was reported that Kevin Bacon had signed on to play a villain in the upcoming movie X-Men: First Class.

However, Fox had declined to say which villain the actor would be playing and preferred to keep mum about it - no doubt to make an announcement at Comic-Con perhaps?

And most people, including me, were thinking that Bacon would be playing one of the X-Men's most nefarious villains, Mister Sinister.

Now, a story over at Forces of Geek (based on a source they have) is claiming that Bacon will play Sebastien Shaw - another nefarious villain - who is the leader of the Hellfire Club:

A mutant, Shaw possesses the ability to absorb kinetic energy and transform it into raw strength. He is the leader of the New York branch of the Hellfire Club, an exclusive secret society bent on world domination, although to the public, he is a legitimate businessman and ordinary human. He once funded the mutant-hunting Sentinel program to keep it under his thumb. In 2009, Shaw was named IGN's 55th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time. [Wikipedia]

 It seems that Sebastian Shaw figures heavily in the film's plot.
 [Forces of Geek via Collider]

Keep in mind that nothing has been confirmed yet and list this news under rumour, though it's a very plausible one.

What say you - Sebastian Shaw or Mister Sinister for Kevin Bacon?

'X-Men: First Class' - Kevin Bacon to Play Villain and Mystique is Cast!

Kevin Bacon (Footloose, Tremors, Mystic River) has apparently officially signed on to play the villain in the upcoming X-Men: First class movie. Though the name of the villain he will play has not been specified yet, most people think the actor is set to play Mister Sinister. Fox has apparently declined to comment.

Also, the role of Mystique has been filled by actress Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone). She will take on the role that was played by Rebecca Romijn in the previous three X-Men films.

Casting is definitely well on the way for X-Men: First Class. Bacon and Lawrence join James McAvoy (Charles Xavier), Michael Fassbender (Magneto), Nicholas Hoult (Beast), Alice Eve (Emma Frost) and Caleb Landry Jones (Banshee).
[Collider]

This movie is boasting a very interesting group of actors; I really, really hope that they will gel well together.

X-Men: First Class is scheduled to be released June 3rd, 2011.