Professor X will be doing battle with Armageddon, as fresh details about X-Men: First Class are released…
We've got until June 3rd 2011 before we find out just what Matthew Vaughn has managed to do with the X-Men franchise, as his new film, First Class, very much takes things back to basics.
Vaughn has been shooting the film, which stars the likes of Michael Fassbender, January Jones, Kevin Bacon and James McAvoy, over these past few months, and he's got a contracted post-production schedule (at least in comparison to some big blockbusters) to get everything done and dusted.
Yet, what is the story he's looking to tell? Well, for the first time, that news has been made available, as Fox has released the first official synopsis from the film. And here it is:
"X-Men: First Class charts the epic beginning of the X-Men saga, and reveals a secret history of famous global events. Before mutants had revealed themselves to the world, and 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. Not archenemies, they were instead at first the closest of friends, working together with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop Armageddon. In the process, a grave rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto's Brotherhood and Professor X's X-Men."
You'll notice in there that we have a villain being named for the first time, too. For X-Men: First Class will see the mutants doing battle with Armageddon.
We'll have more details on the film as we get them, and we'd wager we might just get a trailer in the next month...
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