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That Big Spoiler Cameo Scene In The Middle Of X-Men: First Class (SPOILERS) Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors

Click the link and highlight the 'inviso-text' for the not so shocking cameo news.

Matthew Vaughn On X-Men: First Class

Matthew Vaughn Tells Us Which Hot Potato An X-Men: First Class Follow Up Could Juggle Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors

thought we’d start with the big, headline stuff – something about the (pretty much inevitable) sequel because there’s nothing like a movie blogger jumping the gun for cheap thrills, eh?

I was speaking to Vaughn about the portrayal of 60s sexism in First Class, and then swerving the topic from gender issues, to representation of race. This is how he responded:

We talked about race issues because they say X-Men was based on Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, but I think I had enough political subtext in this movie. We’ve already discussed in the next one, does the civil rights movement become part of…. But that’s a real hot potato as well, still, so we decided to stay clear. You can only put so much in one film, so, the sequel…

I don’t know. I don’t like talking about sequels because the film could tank and then there won’t be one.

It’s encouraging to know that discussions about a follow up are being centred on social and political ideas, subtext and subject matter and not just which new mutants could be brought into the fray. Of course, having seen First Class, I wasn’t surprised at all that Vaughn was thinking like this.

Meanwhile, Vaughn has also told Drew McWeeny today that he’s got an idea for how the next film might start:

I’ve got some ideas for the opening for the next film. I thought it would be fun to open with the Kennedy Assassination, and we reveal that the magic bullet was controlled by Magneto. That would explain the physics of it, and we see that he’s pissed off because Kennedy took all the credit for saving the world and mutants weren’t even mentioned. And we could go from there, and I’ve got some fun ideas about what other mutants to bring in.

Note that he says mutants, plural, because that would appear, on the surface, to be at odds with another interview given to Movieweb:

We will only have one more new character. I won’t say who he…I won’t say who he or she is. But we will only be bringing one more new character in. Because, I think, as Professor X is in a wheelchair, Magneto needs to have a nemesis he can fight with. Someone that will be his equal. I know who it is. It would be nice if I could say something, but I can’t, mate.

I’m calling it now. He means Wolverine. I’m pretty well convinced of it. But forget the possibility of big claws versus the militant magnet for a moment, it’s the promise of the civil rights struggle that intrigues me the most.

Let’s see how this all pans out as First Class goes on to be a smash and Fox, and audiences, start waiting for a follow up.

Originally Posted by jerseydevil

Matthew Vaughn Tells Us Which Hot Potato An X-Men: First Class Follow Up Could Juggle Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors

it should be storm, she's just as OP as magneto (in MVC)

Patrick Stewart talks James McAvoy & 'X-Men: First Class' - PopWrap

Reviews: X-MEN: FIRST CLASS Review

X-Men: First Class is a total pleasure, hitting all the action beats we've come to expect from big-budget studio productions, and adding much that makes it unique, at least among the sorry crop of sequels and prequels and mutated origin stories that have flooded the worldwide market in the past decade.

That's not a left-handed compliment; the movie is not just "good for what it is" or "not as bad as feared" or "decent for the superhero sub-genre." On the other hand, I don't want to oversell it. X-Men: First Class is not at the top rank, up in the rarefied air of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight or the next half-step down with Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 2. Its ambition is not as broad as those films, and the emotions don't run as deep.

But, boy, I had a blast watching X-Men: First Class, knowing I was in the hands of talented, creative people who were clearly intent on delivering as much entertainment value as possible, without neglecting to develop a crowd of (probably too many) characters.

Review: Despite All Its Little Foibles, ‘X-Men: First Class’ Is Near First Rate > The Playlist

For all its many little foibles, “X-Men: First Class,” is surprisingly well-handled and directed; surging forth with the drama and intensity of a global-looming threat. Crackling with high stakes intensity, yet remaining impressively light on its feet and fun, “X-Men: First Class” is the super hero movie to beat this summer. [B+]

Wow, I fully expected this site to hate this movie.

X-Men First Class: Movie Review

This is most likely one of the better if not best action films you’ll see this summer (I will see Super 8 soon and see if I have to take this back). It’s not completely perfect and loses some steam (though I’m getting picky with that) in the last act, but it has a hell of a set up and ending, the acting in it would win awards if they were in an emotional drama and not a summer blockbuster, and there is plenty of razzle dazzle to keep everyone entertained. There’s plenty for both the boys and the girls of all ages in the film — it’s really an amazingly fun, accessible piece of cinema.