X-Men: First Class filming thread: News, reports, images etc.

[BMM]

As long as they avoid the effects work showcased in Wolverine, I'll be happy.

[Storm22]

Yeah I have high hopes for First Class FX considering the quality of the FX in X1 - X3. Wolverine on the other hand had terrible FX.

[Electrix]

Drat! Had to turn down offer of 4 weeks on X-Men First Class for day job

@jamiegambell

He's a sound boom operator who worked on Stardust.

[JP]

This guy lives (works?) around pinewood studios"

saw some of X-men filming but couldnt see who the actor was too much crew around em!!! 9:56 AM Aug 27th via web

is going to the xmen: first class set in a bit!!! about 4 hours ago via web

wow x-men set was filming! water tanks and fake concentration camps bonanza! about 2 hours ago via web

https://twitter.com/richbiscuit

[Electrix]

Mr. Fassbender should be on set then

[JP]

Bill Milner.

[Project862006]

hope it is shot like singer's magneto flash backs i love that scene

[JP]

It's my favorite scene in X1. Second favorite being the hallway scene with Xavier and Magneto.

[The Wizard]

Looks like we'll get an Erik flashback. Wonder if will get one for Charles. Probably.

[JP]

Yes, played by Charlie Rowe.

[Electrix]

Is waiting to start work on x-men. Its guna be a later night!!! Xx

@Lucindajelley

Make-up artist waiting for a night shoot!


Previous tweets:

Is starting xmen on monday about time!!! Xxxx

Can't wait to start Xmen on monday be nice to be part of the make-up crew again! Xxx

Early night got work tomorrow can't wait to meet the xmen team let's hope it leads to good things for me and chloe xxxxx

[JP]

Exciting!

[JustABill]

I love how Twitter has become a means of spying on movie sets.

[The Original Bamfer]

What an exciting time!

[The Wizard]

Wonder what the night shoot's about.

[Electrix]

X-Men: First Class is being filmed in the UK. Naturally, all good superhero films are, at least partly, shot here. Where else in the English speaking world can you find so many aging thespians who can chew their way through such exposition with such conviction, and so many special effects and stuntpeople willing to throw themselves into the firing line, quite literally in some cases? But the perils of such shooting is to find locations that don’t instantly look like something out of Trainspotting and not Miami Vice. So keeping them inside is a good thing.
Right now the company Sarah Eastel Locations is searching for all sorts of properties. Including one described as;

Large cellars with high ceilings ideally within south east.
For very high profile feature film shooting within bext two months

I understand that’s X-Men: First Class. And they need a new X-Mansion. I also note they’re looking for

Large brutallist building to double as CIA headquarters, for feature film shooting November for 1 month. Anywhere in the UK

Early Stan and Jack X-Men had Professor X aligned with the US secret services. I wonder if the same could be happening here?

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2010/09/...your-basement/

[The Wizard]

Interesting.

[Hellion]

Originally Posted by Electrix

@Lucindajelley

Make-up artist waiting for a night shoot!


Previous tweets:

Awesome!

[Electrix]

This got lost in the speculation thread so i'll post it here:

Some guy who works at Pinewood studios tweeted:

saw halle berry here on my break!

She's either filming her new movie Dark Tide or visiting the First Class set. She's friends with Lauren Shuler Donner. A non-Storm cameo would be cool.

[mclay18]

Originally Posted by JP

Another quote from Vaughn when asked how he and Goldman finished their Kick-Ass script in 4 weeks:

"A good script should never take a long time to write."

No wonder he brought in Jane after Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz finished their draft. But will the WGA grant Goldman a writing credit? I don't think she's a WGA member, since there wasn't any WGA-approved credits for Stardust, The Debt and Kick-Ass.

[Dead Ken]

Does anyone know how long they are filming in Oxford? I'd like to see what the set looks like, I'm interested in how films are made, especially when it is just outside my place of study haha

[TheVelvetOnion]

I have one sentance to say about this...

I was stood watching them film X-Men First Class in my town...

Some of you may have seen the recent pictures of James McAvoy with hair as the article keeps saying walking out of one of the old buildings we have in Oxford...

well... i was stood in the crowd the day those photos were taken. and im going back tomorrow to have another sneek peak look...

may take camera with me see if i can take some sneaky pics i'll keep you posted.

its so bizzar, there filming X-Men not far from my home.

[TheVelvetOnion]

think there there for a couple of weeks... from what im told the roads have been closed off around there for that long.

[JP]

Cool, thanks.

[the a1ant]

About them recreating Magneto's origin scene from X1...

According to Bleeding Cool’s sources, this sequence plays out shot-for-shot in the upcoming X-Men: First Class… at least, up to a point. They casting is different too, of course – this time around, the tremendous Bill Milner is playing Lensherr – and when the sequence does deviate, it’s with some very dramatic twists… which we’ll be keeping under our hats for now, I’m afraid.

Director Matthew Vaughn had video reference of the original sequence on tap for the cast and crew during their prep for shooting this sequence, and for the shots that are mirrored, the attention to detail is apparently quite exhaustive.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2010/10/...t-x-men-movie/