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January 24, 2011 - X-Men: First Class / Matthew Vaughn talks about movie
Scooped on Tuesday, January 25, 2011
X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn spoke with Entertainment Weekly about the why's and how's of where Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr came to be friends and future adversaries in the X-universe of the movie franchise. There's lots of great mini-spoilers, like this one:
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How would you describe First Class to the uninitiated?
MATTHEW VAUGHN: The best way of describing it is X-Men meets Bond, with a little bit of Thirteen Days thrown in for good measure. It’s set in the ’60s, and I basically molded a young Magneto on a young Sean Connery. He’s the ultimate spy — imagine Bond, but with superpowers.
...or this one...
EW: I know you’re under tight restrictions about what you can reveal regarding the plot, but, well, what else can you say?
MATTHEW VAUGHN: In the beginning of the film, no one knows that mutants exist, and all the mutants don’t know that each other exist. They’re all in hiding. Kevin Bacon plays a very megalomaniac mutant [Sebastian Shaw] who decides that he can take over the world and that mutants are the future. Erik and Charles then meet each other and hook up with the CIA to try and prevent World War III. You find out everything about what went on between Erik and Charles.
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