‘X-Men First Class’ Set Photos Feature Potential Major Spoiler
Though arecent rumorthat Hugh Jackman was going to visit the set ofX-Men First Classended upbeing false, there was one nugget of truth in it. TheMatthew Vaughn-directed prequel, scheduled for release June 3, was going to shoot on Jekyll Island in Georgia and photos have just surfaced that show a potentially epic scene that’s being prepped there. These photos aredefinitely spoilerish, so we’ve got them after the jump.
Thanks toComic Book Moviefor the heads up.
The most obvious thing we see in this photo is the cockpit ofBlackbird,the famous jet flown by the X-Men. And while it does look like the jet has crashed, it could potentially just be being built by the crew for shooting in the future. Now that I think of it though, why would it be fully assembled on a beach? From these pics, it seems safe to say that the Blackbird crashes at some point inX-Men First Class, and that most of it will be completed with CGI – hence the huge green structure.
Well, that then begs this question: How far doesX-Men First Classgo into the X-Men history?We know that the film, which starsJames McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Rose Byrne, January Jones,andKevin Baconis about a young Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr before they became Professor X and Magneto and focuses on their friendship, powers and the events that lead to them becoming the leaders on either side of the battle for mutants. The inclusion of Blackbird, which is generally considered to be the X-Men’s main mode of transportation (in the movies, they called it the X-Jet), leads one to believe that the X-Men are pretty well established at some point in this movie.
Am I totally wrong in my assumption? Or does it make sense that Magneto and his Brotherhood would attack the X-Men and the Blackbird in this film? Could we be looking at one of the climactic battles?
