Of all the Marvel Comic book films coming out this summer it is the one not being made by Marvel themselves which seems to be getting the biggest amount of negative press and buzz from the fans. The last couple weeks has seen pictures from the set either leaked by accident or on purpose to gauge fan reaction. To say that reaction has been underwhelming would be an understatement.
The film is 20th Century Fox Studios latest film on the X-Men franchise. A franchise which is now batting 2-for-4. The first two films in the franchise were thought of as being very good to great and the last two seen as a major mess or just plain awful. Now the fifth film has just released it’s first official trailer and from the look of things it looks to be retconning all the vents which occurred in the first four films. The scenes used for the trailer looked very good and the looks of the many (people complaining about the amount of characters in the third Nolan/Batman film will be apoplectic once they see First Class) characters gives me some hope.
The film has Matthew Vaughn just fresh off of Kick-Ass and it will be up to him to create a gem out of the rough stone people seem to be judging the film at the moment. X-Men: First Class is set for a June 3, 2011 release.
Like the cast and crew, happy about Bryan Singers involvement ( I loved X2) and this trailer has me very excited.
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I think the fact that Singer is involved gives me hope. I’m just wondering now if this First Class succeeds will they just use it as a way to reboot the franchise and forget X-Men and X2 even existed. Part of me actually wants this and the Aronofsky Wolverine to fail in Ishtar-fashion. I say this only because I want Marvel/Disney to start getting back all the licensed properties back in-house.
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