…and here it is, the first trailer to this summer’s X-Men: First Class. Sure, it’s got clips from the original movies and an audio clip of former president John F. Kennedy, but there’s plenty of new stuff too, including lots of mutant powers on display, what appears to be an early version of the X-Men’s Blackbird jet, Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique and Nightcrawler’s dad Azazel teleporting around. Yet the focus is definitely on the relationship between James McAvoy’s Xavier and Michael Fassbender’s Magneto — hey, why are we talking? Watch the trailer:
The movie, directed by Matthew Vaughn and also starring Kevin Bacon and January Jones, is out on June 3. Based on early response, it looks to be swaying some folks who have previously expressed concerns over the film — though, of course, the true test comes in, y’know, actually watching the movie.
February 10th, 2011 at 4:55 pm
that was surprisingly decent. I mean, it can’t be worse than X3 or Wolverine Origins, right?
Man, this summer is loaded.
February 10th, 2011 at 4:57 pm
I agree, it actually looks really good.
February 10th, 2011 at 5:32 pm
I’m still not seeing this 60′s vibe, but I like the homage to X-Men #1.
February 10th, 2011 at 5:40 pm
Cool- they messed with the timelines a bit, but you know what? This looks like fun
February 10th, 2011 at 5:40 pm
No, it can’t be worse than the Wolverine film. But I’m also not any more interested in it now than I was before seeing the trailer.
Prequelitis is a disease that really needs to be eradicated.
February 10th, 2011 at 5:52 pm
look fine – no obvious problems (yet) not sure how that sub got into somewhere that looks like a lake, but I like that is seems pretty “real-world” — for some reason I can’t take the comicbook movies with the comicbook plot-engines (xmen 1′s “rogue-powered machine to make humans mutants” no thanks)
February 10th, 2011 at 6:02 pm
OK, maybe it was the music they used, but this trailer grabbed me. I may go see the film, but we’ll see by the time it hits theaters.
February 10th, 2011 at 6:10 pm
liking the look of this… as much as i was hesitant at first… kinda like just a fun reimagining.. elseworld’s type of way… i think that’s the best way to approach this film… haha
February 10th, 2011 at 6:35 pm
I don’t think that body of water was a lake, probably a bay or inlet off the coast of Cuba, as they basically mentioned the Cuban Missile Crisis as the crux event of the film, which is the only thing that made this look like the 1960s.
February 10th, 2011 at 6:36 pm
Meh.
Pass.
I’m just over the X-films at this point.
February 10th, 2011 at 6:44 pm
beast looks surprisingly good. paused it when he was piloting the blackbird to get a good look at him (1:12ish). he was my biggest concern as he’s my favourite mutant, looks a bit more cat-like than x3 beast, which i don’t mind at all. looks like it might be okay.
February 10th, 2011 at 7:39 pm
Think I saw Hank start to transform to blue and furry. Nice.
The X-men movies have rewritten the comics continuity anyway so this has to be viewed as a prequel to the existing movies and not as an adaptation of the comic book origins.
February 10th, 2011 at 7:45 pm
Except Hank McCoy has already been in the X-films w/o the blur fur. Not to mention in the Wolverine film they did a frost character that could turn into diamonds.
Boring, if you are going to pay attention to your own films why should your fans?
February 10th, 2011 at 8:00 pm
The character in Origins was decidely not Emma Frost. And they had already kinda ignored the passing Hank McCoy reference in the second movie anyway.
I thought it looked pretty good, compared to zero expectations I had previously.
February 10th, 2011 at 8:23 pm
It’s not the X-Men, but it does look interesting. I’ll look forward to renting it.
February 10th, 2011 at 8:25 pm
i too had some reservations about this film for sure. but having seen this one trailer, i can honestly say i’m intrigued. my only concern is the retconning of the timeline. i mean, Havoc has to be in his early to mid twenties by the time Scott is born if he is supposed to be the older of the two now.
and say what you will about X-Men Origins: Wolverine. it was entertaining, for the most part. Gambit and Deadpool got shafted in that film.
hopefully, Matt Vaughn gives us a film that makes up for X3 (sorry Mr. Ratner).
February 10th, 2011 at 8:30 pm
Doesn’t ignore the continuity of the previous films as much as I was hoping it would; I would have preferred the hardest possible reboot.
Also:
“Gambit and Deadpool got shafted in that film.”
Gambit, at least, deserves no better.
February 10th, 2011 at 8:58 pm
If the Emma in this movie isn’t the same Emma we saw in Wolverine, then since when does Emma have the ability to even transmute her skin to diamond? She was purely telepathic in the early days of the X-Men. That diamond power is a second mutation she achieved 8 years ago.
February 10th, 2011 at 9:21 pm
I don’t care if it jives with the continuity of the other films or not – what we just saw gave me just enough hope to say that I could enjoy this film. As long as they actually build their characters rather than just throw them in (I’m looking at you, X3 and Wolverine), I’ll be happy.
And holy cow, 60s X-jet FTW
February 10th, 2011 at 9:32 pm
There is a whole lot to like here. Fassbender as Magneto looks awesome. Does anybody else think that the oldschool Cerebro has a very Lost “Dharma Initiative” feel to it?
If only they ditched Azazel.
February 10th, 2011 at 9:44 pm
Fassbender as Magneto is cool. Overall looks good, cautiously optimistic.
February 10th, 2011 at 9:44 pm
Sorry Emma Frost is a character according to the credits for Wolverine: Origins.
February 10th, 2011 at 9:47 pm
@John D
“As long as they acutally build their characters rather than just throw them in…”
Have you actually watched the two Singer X-Men films? Half of the characters are just ‘thrown in’ i.e. Colossus, Sabretooth, Deathstrike, Jubilee, ect. All this praise that the original two films are recieving at the expense of the subsequent two is revisionist crap.
February 10th, 2011 at 10:17 pm
I’m feeling rather disappointed with this movie. I just keep seeing the same problems that happened in the previous films. First off too many character, which means most of them will be underdeveloped back ground characters done for fan service. And considering half the cast is obscure characters like Angel, Azazel and Darwin, its not proper fan service since most people aside from comic readers are going to have an idea who they area.
Then there is the fact this movie doesn’t follow any of the established continuity and instead is introducing stuff that creates plot holes and confusing for later films. Such as there being two Emma Frosts, one who’s in her 30′s in the 1960s and another who’s in her late teens in the 1970′s. Or what about in X1, where they said Cyclops, Storm and Jean were Xavier’s first students?
And the special effects I don’t really see anything NEW. But we’ll see…
February 10th, 2011 at 11:34 pm
Not to be nitpicky here Red Robin, but they said in X1 that Cyclops, Storm, And Jean were “some of” his first students, not his absolute first students. Also, it sounds like you didn’t really like the first few films, so shouldn’t ignoring their continuity be a positive thing?
At this point the movie continuity is so full of holes, I’m just excited to watch an action movie with X-Men characters in it… because I like action movies and X-Men Characters. I’ll save my continuity gripes for plot holes in the comics, which as far as I’m concerned are the only “real” x-men.
Yeah I’d rather they use continuity closer to the comics in the films, because I think it’s better, and because I think it would be better for comics sales, but realizing that this isn’t going to happen, why should I give a damn about continuity problems when the much greater challenge for the fimmakers to overcome is beating the bad rap from two terrible films. It looks like they might have actually made a good X-Men movie this time. Cool!
February 11th, 2011 at 12:15 am
Great. The Avengers movie isn’t enough, we got another movie that’s nothing but CGI porn and explosions that will make Michael Bay orgasm just to please the brainless masses.
February 11th, 2011 at 12:18 am
CGI porn is gross. But then again I have no brain…
February 11th, 2011 at 2:55 am
I really liked the trailer and can’t wait for the movie, but I’m more impressed by the music. Can somebody tell me who’s is it? ty
February 11th, 2011 at 3:16 am
Well, it was more engaging than the trailers for Thor and GL, if that matters.
February 11th, 2011 at 4:34 am
Like most my expectations were low, but the trailer actually looks decent.
Despite the time line being out of whack for the characters.
The film might actually be good, but this trailer wasn’t featured during the Super-Bowl and isn’t really know outside the net.
Marvel Studios got air-time.
20th century Fox didn’t get any for this picture, makes you wonder if they have any belief in this film.
Big movie studios always do crap like that.
Once Marvel gets the rights back, then there’s hope for a good X-men film.
But how long will that be?
February 11th, 2011 at 6:27 am
I’ve read the shooting script and this film has WAY more in common with X3 than with the first two X-films.
Looks nice (as did X3 for the most part) but stay worried.
February 11th, 2011 at 7:51 am
The trailer sure is reminiscent of the Watchmen trailer. That’s not a bad thing.
February 11th, 2011 at 11:48 am
“and say what you will about X-Men Origins: Wolverine.”
It effing sucked.
“But how long will that be?”
Considering how desperate Fox and Sony are to keep the rights they’ve got? A long time.
February 11th, 2011 at 12:07 pm
I’m happy to see Kurt Wagner’s parents in action. Does this mean we’ll see a baby Nightcrawler ?? If there’s a sequel, perhap’s…
February 11th, 2011 at 12:19 pm
@DJINT
“this film has WAY more in common with X3 than with the first two X-films”
Good. I hope that means no dumb plot contrivances like Xavier keeping a mutant genocide machine lying around the mansion and the action scenes might actually be watchable.
February 11th, 2011 at 1:00 pm
Maybe this is more of a reboot than a prequel… I just wish it could be set, along with Spiderman and the FF, in the same Marvel Filmverse as the Avengers…
February 11th, 2011 at 1:53 pm
This looks like garbage. Why was pixie (the girl with the wings naked). And of course Mystique is a raging slut. Also, who is this movie supposed to appeal to? Seeing as has nothing in common with the comics and I doubt its going to appeal to new comers. I honestly hopes this movie bombs hard. Lets make Charles and Maggii youngsters and turn them into meathead fratboys. “Hey cool, naked chick with wings. Lets bang her !!”
February 11th, 2011 at 3:04 pm
As much as I would love to enjoy this film as just an adaptaion of the X-men, I just can’t. I’ve been a fan for 18 years reading the comics. I just can’t get over Havok being older than Cyclops and there being two emma frosts. I love the Havok character. As sad as it sounds I hope they make a mention of cyclops being away somewhere so I can be at rest (Iknow crazy fanboy here). I don’t have high hopes for the film. Also WHERE THE HELL IS JEAN GREY! I want to see JEAN GREY AND EMMA FROST FIGHT IT OUT! DOne!
February 11th, 2011 at 3:18 pm
Renter!
I didn’t see anything in that clip that made me want to go see it in the theatre.
February 11th, 2011 at 5:46 pm
wow! way more impressed with that then i thought i would be. if nothing else it has the best trailer of the five (five!) x-movies.
the few lines we heard from “Charles” and “Eric” seemed seemed well delivered. my only two complaints are Nightcrawlers father (not a fan) and the fact that they keep trying to shoe horn emma frost into anything x-related now a days! why? she has to be one of the lest pleasant, and unnecessary characters in comics today(just bring back jean, they already brought back colossus-the only reason she has diamond skin). you dont need her for sex appeal, pixie seems to be some sort of stripper/call girl (might just be my dirty mind) and you have mystique naked throughout the whole thing./end rant
February 12th, 2011 at 3:20 am
Based on the trailer I was suprisingly pleased. It looks much better than the last X-Men film in the trilogy or X-Men: Origins. Now I am look forward to this movie more than Thor and Captain America though it does not beat out Green Lantern for me yet.
February 13th, 2011 at 2:47 am
Why am I getting a “I want to be Watchmen” vibe from this trailer? Good luck at the box office.
February 13th, 2011 at 5:11 am
I am sorry but I thought that Sabertooth was Nightcrawler’s father?
February 14th, 2011 at 10:20 pm
Gotta say this surprised me in a good way. That last X film was so lame, it really turned a lot of people off, but this really looks good.
Yeah, 4 good looking comic movies this summer.
February 16th, 2011 at 6:36 pm
The movie looks good, and especially since FOX now knows what the fans are looking for in a comic book movie from the success of the Marvel produced films…they should do a lot better.
Granted there are gaps in character selection….most notably “Havok” being that he is Scott Summer’s younger brother.
Regardless…the movie looks good…
I love that Azazel is in the film, being a huge fan of Nightcrawler and the mutant ability to teleport…it was great to see another teleportation fighting scene in the trailer.
Speaking of which….I know its above but if your too lazy to scroll back up…heres the link to the feature length trailer
http://on.fb.me/XMenMovies