Mark Millar is a man of hope, a true optimist. Not only does Millar see the glass as half-full, he can’t conceive of the glass being empty. Ever. Read the full story

Recently X-Men: First Class producer, Lauren Shuler Donner, spoke with Crave about the upcoming addition to the X-Men franchise. Among the nuggets she dropped for eager fan boys was a potentially crushing one: the Magneto solo movie is no more.

What we know so far about X-Men: First Class is it will be set in the 1960s, and Magneto will be played by thirty-three year old Michael Fassbender while Charles Xavier will be played by thirty-one year old James McAvoy. Donner explained that X-Men: First Class takes on much of Magneto’s origin using “Magneto history. Stuff from the Marvel/Magneto history”, thereby cooling any interest in a lone Magneto feature.

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It seems hard to believe that a new X-Men movie, this time X-Men: First Class, is coming out June of next year, because they haven’t even started filming yet (outside of second unit photography). Today I thought to myself how strange it is that the Comic-Con before X-Men Origins: Wolverine was released, footage was shown. At this year’s Comic-Con before this new film, not a single second had been shot. And that was a terrible movie. Basically, they need to hurry up and it looks like they are doing just that with production in London starting in a few days. Read the full story

There is actually a chance that this is the final casting news on Matthew Vaughn‘s X-Men: First Class. Deadline is reporting that Mad Men star January Jones has signed on to play the role of Emma Frost, previously rumored to go to Alice Eve (She’s Out of my League). Frost is also the mutant White Queen. Read the full story

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Coming in hot after yesterday’s news and today’s news of Rose Byrne and Jason Flemyng joining, Oliver Platt has been cast in the upcoming X-Men prequel, X-Men: First Class. Read the full story

It has been reported that Rose Byrne (28 Weeks Later, Troy) is currently in negotiations to join the cast of Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men First Class. Read the full story

Jason Flemyng is a Matthew Vaughn regular, having appeared in Layer Cake, Stardust, and Kick-Ass (as well as the Vaughn produced Guy Ritchie films, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch). It will come as no surprise, then, that the English actor has been cast in Vaughn’s next movie, X-Men: First Class. Read the full story

Matthew Vaughn‘s X-Men: First Class has a lot going for it. The stellar cast includes Alice Eve, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult and Kevin Bacon. Vaughn even spoke with IGN recently saying he is taking a note from J.J. Abrams‘ Star Trek who “made a fantastically exciting reinvention of that world, with those great characters. And I [Vaughn] think there will be comparisons a little bit with X-Men: First Class. It’s very similar, in a way. But we’re doing some cool stuff in this movie, some really cool stuff that you haven’t seen before.” But, as LA Times reports, Vaughn recently saw Christopher Nolan‘s Inception and some of that “really cool stuff” will have to go. Read the full story

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Speaking with the creator of Kick-Ass, Mark Millar, ComicBookMovie.com was able to uncover some new details on the upcoming movie/comic sequel. The first issue of book two is aiming at an early August release to tie in with the DVD/Blu-ray release of Kick-Ass. Read the full story

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Jennifer Lawrence, the knock-out, Oscar-worthy star in the Sundance hit Winter’s Bone (my review here) has been cast as Mystique in First Class THR reports. Amber Heard was originally rumored, but I’m very glad they went with Lawrence. She is simply stunning in Debra Granik’s film. Read the full story

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