Days of Future Past First Class Official Casting Thread

[Lobo]

Heard as young Raven=pwnage

 

[merbass]

It's a shame that Fassbender pass on the role of Magneto. Also Aaron is being considered for Spiderman. I hope they don't end up being in other movie than X-men.

 

[FaT_tONle]

Moira was still significantly younger than Xavier in the movie. Unless they ignore X-3 obviously, but the timeline still wouldn't make sense.

 

[ChaoticPsylocke]

You must be out of your mind! Of course everyone on here knew about it, posted it, debated it, dissected it...

Believe me, you're late to the party on this. And why quote that amateur site (which is full of errors and often credits the wrong sources), quote the actual original source.

I don't mean to sound harsh but did you seriously think no one on an X-Men board had heard about the Fassbender rumour? It's progressed since then anyway.

dang, tone down the jerk please. we are all just havin fun.

im def happy to know Moira is a character that will be utilized. i think Emma WILL be in the movie.... i just dont know how they are going to do that. Rosamund did seem like a good fit, but maybe we can get someone else... maybe a little younger and the continuity wont seem like such a big mess.

 

[TNC9852002]

Moira was still significantly younger than Xavier in the movie. Unless they ignore X-3 obviously, but the timeline still wouldn't make sense.

Yeah, Olivia Williams is 28 years younger than Patrick. lol

Damn casting director...

Even if the movie could knock off 7 years of Xavier and put 7 years on Moira, that's still 14 years apart.

I'm starting to suspect that this movie may become more like a "preboot". It's not a direct prequel to the existing series--only taking the comic franchise and starting it earlier with a new timeline, new characters, within a different universe altogether.

 

[Spider-Fan83]

Latest casting claims...

Amber Heard for young Mystique...
http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2010/06/amber-heard-rosamund-pike-being-lined.html

see know I gotta kinda wonder... do you think mystique will actually be young, or will she just be taking on the form of a younger girl (Amber Heard)
I mean, in the comics she said to be much older then she looks...

 

[TNC9852002]

Well, it depends...I mean, look at her in X3. When she de-mutates, they had a chance to make her appear much older, but they just put a wig on Rebecca and called it a day.

 

[Spider-Fan83]

ya, but, you can say the same thing about wolverine when he temporarily lost his powers...

 

[TNC9852002]

Hmmm...Well, that's something different. I don't think he's gonna just suddenly start aging right there on the spot. His powers just slowed his aging. Like in X1, he would temporarily resume aging normally at that point or recently closed wounds would start to slowly revert back to healing at normal speed or open up again.

Mystique on the other hand, originally didn't really have a healing factor--she just shapes herself all the time to look a certain age, usually a lot younger. If she lost her powers to transform, she should revert to looking much older--her body's true age.

But you have to decide on which version of Mystique will the movie use. recently, they've shown that Mystique does have a healing factor almost as powerful as Wolverine's and also in some incarnations, she has stopped aging entirely.

 

[Electrix]

I'm glad Mystique will be in this. She kicked butt in X2 but was severely underused in X3.

 

[TNC9852002]

Well yeah. X3 had too many other things it wanted to do.

Mathematically, let's assume that Wolverine was born in 1833, 12 years before his powers evolved. He could be interpreted as being in his mid 30's (let's say 34) by the end of the Wolverine, which was around 1989. After 1845 he's aging roughly over 4 times slower than everyone else. For simplicity, let's assume that Mystique and Wolverine are around the same age and their healing factors kicked in at the same time. Using movie!Wolverine's age as a reference, if First Class takes place mostly in the late 1960's (Let's say, 1968), if Mystique appears at this point, she should "appear" to be approximately 29 years old (she would actually be 133 years old at this point).

So, basically casting Amber in the role should work out if she appears in the late 1960's as-is. She can still be the same Mystique from the movies, but we would have to assume she has slowed aging like Wolverine

 

[HULK (banned)]

I'm glad Mystique will be in this. She kicked butt in X2 but was severely underused in X3.

I feel the same way - Her character was wasted in X3, Not to mention that what they did with her actually also messed with the Character of Magneto - when he leaves he for dead. Meaning that he actually never cared for her, she was simply a tool..

 

[X-Maniac]

I feel the same way - Her character was wasted in X3, Not to mention that what they did with her actually also messed with the Character of Magneto - when he leaves he for dead. Meaning that he actually never cared for her, she was simply a tool..

But did he actually care? It's arguable whether he did and how much.

She became human, and he hated humans. And she was no longer useful.

In X1 he says: "We're the future Charles, they no longer matter."

After she was cured, she could no longer be part of his mutant supremacist cause.

He was willing to leave Xavier (and the others) to die in the dam in X2 and to sacrifice Rogue in his machine in X1. The only thing that mattered to him was his cause.

 

[HULK (banned)]

But did he actually care? It's arguable whether he did and how much.

She became human, and he hated humans. And she was no longer useful.

In X1 he says: "We're the future Charles, they no longer matter."

After she was cured, she could no longer be part of his mutant supremacist cause.

He was willing to leave Xavier (and the others) to die in the dam in X2 and to sacrifice Rogue in his machine in X1. The only thing that mattered to him was his cause.

To me he just seemed to evil.... Even towards mutants.

And maybe he didn't care - But in X-men 1 and 2, I Like to think he did.

 

[X-Maniac]

Well, it depends...I mean, look at her in X3. When she de-mutates, they had a chance to make her appear much older, but they just put a wig on Rebecca and called it a day.

It would have been interesting, and perhaps more effective, if she had de-mutated into an old woman, though it might have prompted questions and the need for exposition to explain to the audience that her mutant state also aged differently.

 

[TNC9852002]

Yeah, I think it would've really been confusing after all...

 

[Electrix]

I feel the same way - Her character was wasted in X3, Not to mention that what they did with her actually also messed with the Character of Magneto - when he leaves he for dead. Meaning that he actually never cared for her, she was simply a tool..

On paper the thought of Mystique being humanized and left by Magneto could have been one of the most tragic scenes of the franchise. Instead it was just an excuse to see Rebecca Romijn with no clothes on. Ratner just brushed over it in order to plough ahead with the plot.

 

[TNC9852002]

Ok, using Patrick's real age as a guide...

Assume that Xavier is 63 years old @ year 2006 during all X-Men movies.

He would have to be born in 1943 or roughly 12 years after Lensherr (who in X1, assumed to be 13 in 1944). BTW, McKellen is only a year older than Stewart!

It's hard for me to believe that Magneto was almost 75 years old in the X-Men movies, but you can't really ignore that his origin was still his origin.

Xavier mentioned that when he was 17 he "met a young man named Erik Lensherr"--following this timeline, Erik would have to be 29 at this time.

[/random thought]

 

[JP]

Its scenes like that that frustrate me about X3. So many powerful emotional scenes that were either just brushed over quickly or horribly executed.

 

[TNC9852002]

Its scenes like that that frustrate me about X3. So many powerful emotional scenes that were either just brushed over quickly or horribly executed.

I just hated some of the musical cues at the more emotional parts...

 

[merbass]

On paper the thought of Mystique being humanized and left by Magneto could have been one of the most tragic scenes of the franchise. Instead it was just an excuse to see Rebecca Romijn with no clothes on. Ratner just brushed over it in order to plough ahead with the plot.

Not to mention, "She gave everything we need to know" "Hell hath no fury like women's scorn". Pathetic !

 

[BMM]

Don't remind me. That man was one of the single worst parts of The Last Stand. His performance was awful. If we can avoid casting decisions like that in First Class, that would be great.

 

[TNC9852002]

X3 just didn't maintain the more subtle and intense tone that the first two movies had. They tried to make X3 a little bit more light and fun at times, perhaps to offset some of the more darker scenes, but it just didn't blend together well...

 

[HULK (banned)]

On paper the thought of Mystique being humanized and left by Magneto could have been one of the most tragic scenes of the franchise. Instead it was just an excuse to see Rebecca Romijn with no clothes on. Ratner just brushed over it in order to plough ahead with the plot.

That's exactly how it was

 

[Young Superman]

Can't wait to find out who's gonna play who in this. X-Men: First Class has made me excited for the X-Men franchise again.