![]() ![]() Fanboys (and everyone else with an appreciation of the female form) will rejoice that she’s wearing a tight white catsuit. This is January Jones as Emma Frost, the White Queen of the nefarious Hellfire Club (the true villains of the piece). Unless it’s a metaphorical door to the future of human evolution, eh? We promise that the action gets better than this. ![]() This puts the X-Men right in the middle of a historical, and genuine, threat to the future of mankind. The use of the all-too-real Missile Crisis also sets the movie in stark relief: this isn’t some conjured mutant threat to world security. It’s a blunt and typically Vaughn approach, and we like it. OK, so this may set some X-Men purists agog (if Singer’s original X-Men took place in 2000, does that mean Mystique is 50 years old or so?), but Vaughn has said that he is more interested in what works for his movie, rather than trying to leap through hoops to make continuity work. ![]() Kennedy’s speech about the Cuban Missile Crisis, which places the movie in 1962. Sitting down – a harbinger of what's to come? – is Charley X and Rose Byrne’s Moira MacTaggert, the team’s CIA liaison officer. From left to right: Fassbender’s Erik, Lucas Till’s Alex Summers (aka Havok), Jennifer Lawrence’s Raven Darkholme (aka Mystique), Nicholas Hoult’s Hank McCoy (aka Beast), and Caleb Landry Jones’ Sean Cassidy (aka Banshee). In Xavier’s study, we get our first look at the all-new, all-different X-Men as they watch a broadcast on TV. Could do with a lick of paint here and there, but otherwise it’s quite nice. This is Xavier’s home, the X-Mansion, in Westchester, New York. And no, your eyes aren’t deceiving you: not only does Xavier have hair, but he can walk! Praise Jesus, he can walk! For now anyway… We know who they’re going to see, but we can’t tell you yet, lest it wreaks havoc with Fox. It’s a fair bet they’re on their way to suss out a potential new recruit for their burgeoning league of mutants. Here, the two old friends – allies for the moment – walk down a corridor, accompanied by armed guards. The introduction of Michael Fassbender: not as Magneto, but as Erik Lehnsherr, a young, embittered and vastly powerful mutant with vengeance on his mind. Similarly, we now get a refresher course on Magneto, from his helmet to that cracking scene in Bryan Singer’s first X-Men when he confronted the police outside the train station, which sets us up for… In this scene, he appears to be in the grounds of a stately home smart money is, it’s probably his own. In this case, James McAvoy as Professor Charles Xavier, with hair and eyebrows Spock would kill for. Also, it means that it doesn’t jolt when… Instead, we get subtle reminders of the powerful iconography of the characters – a helmet, a bald head – sufficient to stir our memories. This is the only glimpse of Patrick Stewart in the trailer: we love the way that you don’t see his face, or Ian McKellen’s. But not just any old empty wheelchair: the giant X on the wheel should be a clue as to the identity of its owner even if you don’t remember it from the previous outings.īut in case you weren’t aware, next comes the slogan: “Before he was Professor X…” Followed by a shot of the back of everyone’s favourite bald telepath wearing Cerebro. The trailer for Matthew Vaughn¹s X-prequel starts with a look at an empty wheelchair. But what’s going on here? Who are these people? And what can you expect from the film itself? We take the trailer apart shot-by-shot to find out… The f irst trailer for Matthew Vaughn’s X-prequel was unveiled, and it’s got the interwebs buzzing. ![]()
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