Watch X-Men: First Class Streaming - Story Notes & Kevin Bacon's Character!

Bryan Singer has dropped some knowledge on everyone and revealed some points about X-Men: First Class and what we can expect to see in the movie.

Some of the points aren't exactly ground breaking as we had to assume some things when we started hearing about casting and characters.

Other points though are pretty cool.

The first thing mentioned is that the movie will be set in the 1960's and center on the early relationship between Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr. This isn't huge news. When we heard that James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender would be playing the characters we knew that it meant the story would be told from an earlier point.

The next point is that Xavier won't start the movie in the wheel chair, or bald. This is pretty cool, especially since Singer says that we will see the cause of Xavier's paralysis. And it means that by the end of the movie we should be seeing a bald McAvoy.

A quick point is that there will be no Cyclops of Jean Grey in the movie. That's a little sad, but there are so many other characters that will be in the movie that it shouldn't feel like a big loss in the end.

Probably my favorite point is this one, the Hellfire Club will be represented and we will see Kevin Bacon as Sebastian Shaw and, the recently announced, January Jones as The White Queen, Emma Frost. We knew that Jones was cast to play Frost, but this is the first word on the actual character that Bacon will play in the film.

I know it's a lot to take in all at once. But this is big stuff friends. X-Men: First Class is aiming to reboot a franchise that had a great start and I believe has a strong chance to reclaim that quality and love from the fans.

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Watch X-Men: First Class Streaming - 3 New Casting Announcements!

As I promised, there is more news from the casting front with X-Men: First Class.

The first announcement is certainly a smaller one with 10 year old Morgan Lily stepping in as a young Mystique. It kind of surprised me that they have her in the story so young when we also know that Jennifer Lawrence will be playing a teen-aged Mystique in the movie as well.

The second announcement is that 15 year old Bill Milner will be playing a 15 year old Magneto. That may be where little girl Mystique comes in, they do seem to have some serious back story between them. But again, I'm not sure what the angle is.

The third announcement is that Zoe Kravitz, daughter of Lenny and Lisa Bonet, has been cast in the movie. The word is that she will be playing the role of Angel. A character with no connection to any of the characters that we already know.

However, there are strong rumors that this could be a casting misdirect and I've read that some people think that Zoe could be stepping into the role of Storm as played by Halle Berry.

I like that idea.

So there you have it, the second dose of X-Men news for the day.

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Watch X-Men: First Class Streaming - Casting Note!

Just 2 days ago we talked about the newest casting decisions that have been made for X-Men: First Class.

And now today it seems that there has been a change in direction in a role that we thought was handed out a long time ago.

In late June it was strong rumor that Alice Eve would be getting the part of Emma Frost in the movie. And the more time that passed without anything being said about it, the more I figured that it was probably a rumor based in fact.

However, the news is now that January Jones will be playing Emma Frost in the upcoming X-Men flick instead.

Now, I'm a big fan of Alice Eve, so I'm a little disappointed. But the film makers have done a good job of picking their White Queen. There is no doubt about that.

Ms. Jones is famous for her role on Mad Men and is a very beautiful woman. With her skills and looks I'm sure that this is going to be a decision that everyone is happy with in the end.

Also, it's been reported that Oliver Platt has joined the cast of X-Men: First Class as well and will be playing the role of The Man in Black. There has been no character description given for Platt's role other than he will not be a villain or a mutant. The general feeling is that he will be a government agent of some sort.

And, I'm still waiting to find out what the official word is on the villain part that Kevin Bacon will be playing!

Stay tuned for more information as X-Men: First Class gets closer to filming.

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Watch X-Men: First Class - More Casting News & Rumors

With only weeks (reported last week) until the start of filming on X-Men: First Class there are still casting announcements being made.

The most recent hard announcement is that Jason Flemyng has been cast as Azazel, father of Nightcrawler. This is another example of characters coming from myth to the big screen for the First Class movie. There will be characters that movie goers have never seen or heard of before.

My recommendation is to check out Wikipedia.

The second rumbling is that Rose Byrne is coming to the cast to play Moira MacTaggert. Previously it was rumored that Rosamund Pike was going to play the part of MacTaggert after Alice Eve got the role of Emma Frost.

But it looks like that has fallen through, though I haven't been able to find out why at all.

Either way, with things getting close to starting, be prepared for more news probably more than once a day.

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Watch X-Men: First Class - New Cast Member... Again!

There's another new cast member being added to X-Men: First Class and this time it's another lesser known mutant.

Edi Gathegi (The Twilight Saga) will be playing Darwin in the flick when it starts filming.

If you haven't heard of Darwin don't feel bad. I'll give you the really quick rundown. I'm not going to go into his history. But when it comes to abilities Darwin is in good shape. As the name may suggest, Darwin has the power of "reactive evolution" so when the going gets tough, Darwin can react and adapt.

The example given on Wiki is that after being in a dark room for a few seconds Darwin will gain night vision.

So, there you have it. Another in a growing list of mutants on board for X-Men: First Class!

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Watch X-Men: First Class - Jennifer Lawrence Interview!

Yesterday we talked about Jennifer Lawrence playing the part of Mystique in X-Men: First Class.

And today we have an interview that Lawrence did with Roger Moore of the Orlando Sentinel.

It's a pretty fun interview and Lawrence seems genuinely interested and excited to be playing the part of the sexy blue mutant.

Give it a read for yourself and see if you feel better about the casting decision that has been made.

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Enjoy!

“Oh my GOSH! I thought I had a whole year to PREPARE, you know, play the role, wait, and then have the movie come out. Just get used to how big a deal it might be.

“Usually, when you make a movie, there’s just a title and that doesn’t do much of anything for anybody. Even if it’s a Scorsese movie. Nobody knows what that title is about.

“I’ve never done a movie where the title alone makes people go a little crazy.”

How crazy?

“I just got off a plane from London. I was going through Customs, and the guy asks ‘Business or pleasure?’

And I say ‘Business.’

And he says ‘What kind of business?’

And I say ‘Movie. Meetings over a movie.’

And he goes ‘Oh, What movie?’

‘X-Men.’

And he goes ‘Get OUT! They’re doing another X-Men? Oh my gosh, who are going to be?’

‘Mystique.’

‘SHUT UP! Mystique? She’s HOT!’

“And I’m like, ‘Okaay. Can I get through Customs here?’

“I had nooo idea. I have been just ignorant of the whole fan base behind these films. I felt like an idiot. I had to call my mom and go, ‘Mom, I don’t KNOW about all this. This is before we’ve even started shooting, and it’s just CRAZY.’

The starlet, who turns 20 in August, had been surfing the wave that Winter’s Bone put her on back at Sundance when she read for the part. She landed it and THEN decided she’d better bone up on the character.

“When I got the part I dedicated a whole day to watching all three movies, and I really liked them. I was still a little worried, because I didn’t really understand the whole mutant thing. But the script cleared some of my questions up, and knowing that James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender were already on board gave me confidence.”

She had meetings with Vaughn and Co. in London this week. Today, it”s “I have to do 12 hours of prosthetics. Oh man.

“I have to take Mystique back to the beginning, before she became who we saw later. I don’t know exactly what I can talk about, but this is going to be fun.”

She says the prep work is physical, which knowing Mystique’s image, we can believe. Gym time. How does she look in blue?

“NOBODY looks good blue. Well, maybe Zoe Saldana. I am very curious to see how I’m going to come off in that suit.”

Watch X-Men: First Class - Mystique Cast!

A while ago I prematurely speculated that Amber Heard was going to be playing a younger version of the mutant known as Mystique. However, it now seems that Jennifer Lawrence will be playing our favorite blue painted female.

For what it's worth, I'm inclined to believe this news as the IMDB.com listeing for X-Men: First Class has Lawrence listed in the role.

So everyone, meet Jennifer Lawrence, your new Mystique.

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Cheers.

Jennifer Lawrence