Wow, super nerd alert! It is only appropriate that after my huge, geeky info-dump about Captain America yesterday that Marvel would toss us even more media to get excited about. Today, the first trailer for the upcoming X-Men: First Class film was released to the public. First Class is billed as a sort of reboot/prequel to the original X-Men trilogy, and follows the young Professor X (James McAvoy--Wanted) and Magneto (Michael Fassbender--Inglorious Bastards) back when they were best friends first discovering their powers. The two form the first grouping of X-Men, and fend off the advances of the villainous Hellfire Club, whose leader Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon--every movie ever) is bent on world domination. Other familiar mutant faces are along for the ride, including Emma Frost (January Jones--"Mad Men"), Beast (Nicholas Hoult--About a Boy), Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence--Winter's Bone), and Havok (Lucas Till--Hannah Montana-The Movie). Not much else is known about the plot, though from the trailer, it looks like the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cold War will factor into it all somehow. Either way, it is great to see this film finally taking shape, as it is due out this summer. Check out the trailer below, and keep your eyes peeled for the ever-helpful IGN Rewind Theater, where nerd experts will break the clip down frame-by-frame to show you what you missed.
My initial take? Excitement, almost exclusively as a result of the blue-and-yellow uniforms that are much more in line with the comic book X-Men than the black leather outfits we saw donned in the original trilogy.
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