Wow, right on the heels of announcing that Bryan Singer is in fact going to be helming X-Men First Class, we already get a ton of news about it. He doesn’t waste any time.
First he spills a little about the plot, characters and timeframe.
“This is the formative years of Xavier and Magneto, and the formation of the school and where there relationship took a wrong turn,” Singer said. “There is a romantic element, and some of the mutants from ‘X-Men’ will figure into the plot, though I don’t want to say which ones. There will be a lot of new mutants and a great villain.”
“Whether it’s ‘Batman,’ ‘Lord of the Rings’ or ‘Star Trek,’ if the characters are good, you want to see them on their journey even if you know their destiny,” Singer said. “I put myself in the fan’s position, and I think this story is something I would want to see, and so will they.”
My wild speculation into reading these comments are that this will take place in and around X-Men Origins Wolverine, in which Xavier made a cameo rescuing a number of children from the Weapon X facility – including Scott Summers and Emma Frost.
I predict that this will take place before Jean comes along and Emma Frost will fulfill the romantic interest element. I just hope that its a flirty romance and not the core of the story. Singer’s X-Films have had light romance to them with the Jean/Scott/Logan love triangle without letting it derail the film, so I have confidence this wont be a Spiderman 3 romance plotline.
Also at Movieweb there is talk about Jamie Moss, who wrote Streek Kings will be taking over the script
New characters will be created for the project. Moss’ script will be based on a mini-series written by Jeff Parker. The O.C. creator Josh Schwartz wrote the first draft of the film.
I don’t feel that they need to create new characters. I am not opposed to seeing something new, but at the core of it there are already SO MANY characters they could choose from and adapt to the fit the film there hardly seems a need. I doubt they would be making any new characters for the core group, but perhaps supporting cast or fringe extras.
Frankly I would love it if they touched on Sinister in this. He is always so mysterious and eternally clandestine anyways, so I am quietly hoping he is the villain or the motivating force behind whoever the First Class has to face.
