Well, January Jones as Emma Frost looks pretty good. I think that I’d have to see a little more before I give another oppinion on them. We’ll see how the trailers look.
On one hand, this movie looks bad for some reason. OTOH, I fucking loved Kick-ass.
So yeah, I’m conflicted.
Why is the person identified as “Angel” a girl?
So, so far we’ve got one character who will repel fans (Azazel, a character that has only shown up once, and only exists because Chuck Austen is an idiot), one character who will repel non-fans (C-lister fly-girl, who has the same name as one of the protagonists of the last movie), and one that will repel both (January Jones and her ridiculous bra).
January Jones does not repel me.
From the director, Matthew Vaughn regarding that picture:
If this is actually the cast of characters, I’ve got absolutely no hope for the flick.
Azazel? Yugh.
Mixing the time periods to such an extreme extent? Why? Sure, mixing it up a bit, to get favourite characters together is fine, but in this case it doesn’t work.
AZAZEL?!
I’ve only seen January Jones in Mad Men so I might be conflating the actress and the role too much but I don’t think JJ can pull off Emma Frost.
To be fair, I can’t come up with an actress who could.
That’s a lot of work to make a lot of pictures that aren’t “official,” if they are indeed manipulated images.
Can someone give me the 411 on Azarel? He was after my time and Wikipedia says that he’s a mutant demon who was Nighcrawler’s dad. Was he an X-Man? Is his story as lame as it sounds on wiki? Nightcrawler was cool in the 80’s, does he totally suck now because of this?
Could not agree more. January Jones has demonstrated the ability to be Grace Kelly beautiful and to be able to portray characters where a flat delivery can be interpreted in ways that suit the plot. Reminds me of Andie MacDowell in sex, lies and videotape - if you can build a story where her huge limitations as an actress can be used to benefit the character, great. Emma Frost doesn’t strike me as that kind of character.
In terms of who could - the first that comes to mind is Tricia Helfer. Another is a bit-younger Natasha Henstridge.
No, he wasn’t an X-Man.
Yes, the story (The Draco) was lame. Lamer than Wiki makes it seem. See Also: The entire rest of Austen’s run. (Look up the Evil Communion Wafer Rapture, for more of his screwing with Kurt.)
And, no, Kurt survived Austen. He’s currently dead…but he was cool right up until his death!
The photos don’t look bad, so much as they look like a promotion for a TV show like Babylon 5 or a new Star Trek.
Until I determined that X-Men First Class was a movie, not a TV show, I was thinking it looked pretty promising.
Going to be beyond lame. This is going to suck like a Hoover on steroids.
And the bloody parrot-wolves. And Angel having flying sex with Husk in front of her parents.
Sooooo gonna suck…of course, they CAN’T go back and make the comics continuity First Class. They’ve already made Bobby a young’un in the modern timeframe, so Iceman is out.
Is it just me, or does Xavier look like the youngest one in that image?
It’s not just you. Until I actually read the photo’s caption I thought the guy on the far left was Xavier.
They could if they did it as a reboot instead of part of the messy convoluted movie continuity.
As is, I now have 0 interest in watching this mess.
I saw some cool photoshops of Chris Evans as Captain America that were completely fake. Never underestimate the time and care a die-hard fan will devote to fan art. Xavier in this picture looks more like Andrew McCarthy circa Pretty in Pink than James McAvoy post Wanted.