X-Men: First Class is a 2011 American superhero film, based on the X-Men characters appearing in Marvel Comics. The fifth installment in the X-Men series, the film was directed by Matthew Vaughn and produced by Bryan Singer, and acts as a prequel to the original X-Men trilogy. The story is set primarily in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and focuses on the relationship between Charles Xavier (Professor X) and Erik Lensherr (Magneto), and the origin of their groups—the X-Men and the Brotherhood of Mutants, respectively. The film stars James McAvoy as Xavier and Michael Fassbender as Lensherr, leading an ensemble cast that includes Kevin Bacon, January Jones, Rose Byrne, Jennifer Lawrence, Zoë Kravitz, Nicholas Hoult and Lucas Till.
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Writers: Ashley Miller (screenplay), Zack Stentz (screenplay)
Storyline
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. Before they were archenemies, they were closest of friends, working together, with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known. In the process, a rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto's Brotherhood and Professor X's X-MEN
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Country: USA
Language: English | German | French | Spanish | Russian
Release Date: 3 June 2011 (USA) See more »
Also Known As: X-Men: Primera generación See more »
Filming Locations: Englefield House, Theale, Reading, Berkshire, England, UK
Filming
The Englefield House served as the X-Mansion.
Principal photography began on August 31, 2010, in Oxford, England, which included St Aldate's street and some of the University of Oxford's buildings, and lasted for two days.[53] Production then moved to Pinewood Studios in Iver,[54] and to Georgia in October, including Tybee Island, Thunderbolt and Savannah,[55] after sites in Louisiana, North Carolina[56] and West Michigan were considered.[57] Jekyll Island was chosen over Tybee Island after a producer reviewed the locations on Google Earth and thought the water near Jekyll looked more blue.[56] Palm trees were planted into the island's sand so that it would look more like a tropical beach, but the cold weather caused many of the palm trees to become brown or die only days into the shoot, necessitating significant digita
l color correction from the visual effects team.[26] Additional location shooting took place in Russia.[58] A section of the plot is set in the Argentine coastal city of Villa Gesell, but was filmed elsewhere in the country.[19][59] Washington, D.C., the Mojave Desert and Fox's soundstages in Los Angeles also served as locations.[19] The Englefield House in Berkshire served as the X-Mansion, and had its interior decoration adapted to resemble the way the mansion looked in the previous films. Both the submarine and the X-Jet were built on hydraulic sets so that they could be rotated for the vehicles' movements.[60] Principal photography ended in December, but additional filming continued into April 2011, leaving only three to four weeks for post-production before the film's scheduled premiere in June.[61] The tight schedule to meet the release date led Vaughn to declare that he had "never worked under such time pressure".[62] The film cost approximately $160 million to produce without tax breaks,[63] with the eventual cost
Development
During the production of X2, producer Lauren Shuler Donner discussed the idea of a film focusing on the young X-Men with the crew, which was met with approval; the concept was revived during the production of X-Men: The Last Stand.[34] One of The Last Stand's writers, Zak Penn, was hired to write and direct this spin-off,[35] but this idea later fell through.[36] Penn explained in 2007 that "the original idea was to have me do a young X-Men spin-off, a spin-off of the young X-Men characters. But someone came up with a pretty interesting idea [...] it was this guy who worked with me named Mike Chamoy, he worked a lot with me on X3. He came up with how to do a young X-Men movie which is not what you'd expect."[36]
As producer Simon Kinberg read the comic series X-Men: First Class, he suggested studio 20th Century Fox to adapt it. Kinberg, however, did not want to follow the comic too much, as he felt "it was not fresh enough in terms of storytelling", considering them too similar to Twilight and John Hughes movies, and also because the producers wanted an adaptation that would introduce new characters.[34] Both Kinberg and Shuler Donner said that they wanted characters with visuals and powers that had not been seen and that worked well as an ensemble, even if they did not work together in the comics.[11] Shuler Donner later said that the original idea was to green-light First Class depending on the success of X-Men Origins: Magneto.
Effects
First Class employed 1,150 visual effects shots,[66] which were done by six companies:[19] Rhythm & Hues was responsible for Emma Frost, Mystique and Angel, as well as set extensions; Cinesite handled Azazel, the visuals for Cerebro and environment effects; Luma Pictures did Banshee, Havok and Darwin; Moving Picture Company did Beast, Riptide, and the scene where Shaw's yacht is destroyed and he escapes in a submarine; Digital Domain created Sebastian Shaw's powers, and Weta Digital was responsible for the climatic battle in Cuba.[26] The overall coordination was provided by visual effects designer John Dykstra, who said the biggest difficulty was the tight schedule
Music
Henry Jackman, who had worked with Vaughn in Kick-Ass, composed the score. Following the James Bond influences on First Class, Jackman drew inspiration from John Barry's work in the said series, which he described as "extremely posh pop music".[68] Jackman started his work with a "Superman-style theme", which is only featured in the final parts of the film as Vaughn thought it was too "successful and triumphant" for a disjointed and up-and-coming team. Therefore, Vaughn reworked a 'stretched' half time version of the theme into the remainder of the film. The themes for Magneto and Shaw have similarities to reflect their "perverted father-son" relationship, with even a seamless transition during the scene where Shaw is killed to represent Lensherr's full transformation into Magneto.[69][70]
Box Office
Budget: $160,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend: $55,101,604 (USA) (5 June 2011) (3641 Screens)
Gross: $352,616,690 (Worldwide) (29 September 2011)
Company Credits
Production Co: Bad Hat Harry Productions, Donners' Company, Marv Films See more »
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Technical Specs
Runtime: 132 min
Sound Mix: Dolby | Dolby Digital
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
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