Hollywood Movie X-Men: First Class (2011)
Storyline:
Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were archenemies, they were closest of friends, working together, with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known. In the process, a rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto's Brotherhood and Professor X's X-MEN.
Movie Info:
This is the first X-Film without Cyclops.
Matthew Vaughn instructed the cast to do away with all accents in their performances. James McAvoy had planned to copy Patrick Stewart's voice (since McAvoy was going to play a younger version of Stewart's Xavier), but Vaughn quashed it; Vaughn also told Rose Byrne that Moira MacTaggart would not have her trademark Scottish accent in the film (to the Scottish McAvoy's mild disappointment).
The film was originally to be a prequel about Magneto. Screenwriter Sheldon Turner wrote a treatment which he described as "X-Men (2000) meets The Pianist (2002)": the story focused on Magneto's early years as a prisoner of war in a Nazi concentration camp, until liberation by a squad of Allied Forces led by Charles Xavier. They later meet after the war and become friends, and later become rivals. The studio decided to change the film's direction to the early years of the X-Men, but incorporated aspects of Turner's script into the film.
To prepare for his role as Erik Lensherr, Michael Fassbender studied Sir Ian McKellen's performance as Lensherr in the previous X-Films, but also looked through the comics as he decided to make his own version of Magneto: "You want to respect what someone else has done, especially because the fan base really liked what Ian has done with it. But while I could have gone and studied him as a young man and brought that to the performance, I don't think Matthew is very interested in that. So I'm just going my own way and working with whatever is in the comic books and the script."
To prepare for his role as Beast, Nicholas Hoult studied Kelsey Grammer's performance as Beast in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) and Grammar's early series "Frasier" (1993); he also underwent training in athletics, weightlifting and boxing.
The filmmakers hired an "X-Men" specialist to help the cast understand their roles.
Main Cast And Crew
Stars: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence,Laurence Belcher, Bill Milner,Kevin Bacon,Rose Byrne,Beth Goddard,Morgan Lily and Others
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Writers: Ashley Miller (screenplay),
Zack Stentz (screenplay)
Production Co: Bad Hat Harry Productions, Donners' Company, Marv Films
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Runtime: 132 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 3 June 2011 (USA)
Also Known As: X-Men: Primera generación
Filming Locations: Englefield House, Theale, Reading, Berkshire, England, UK
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