#X men origins first class series#

First Class replaced a Magneto prequel film that had been in development, but had entered development hell the Writers Guild of America arbitration gave a story credit to Magneto writer Sheldon Turner. Vaughn, who was previously attached to both X-Men: The Last Stand and Thor, became the director, and also wrote the final script with his writing partner Jane Goldman. Singer, who had directed both X-Men and X2, became involved with the project in 2009, but he could only produce and co-write First Class due to his work on other projects.

#X men origins first class series#

Producer Lauren Shuler Donner first thought of a prequel based on the young X-Men during the production of X2 producer Simon Kinberg later suggested to 20th Century Fox an adaptation of the comic series X-Men: First Class, although the film does not follow the comic closely. First Class is set primarily in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and focuses on the relationship between Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto, and the origin of their groups-the X-Men and the Brotherhood of Mutants, respectively, as they deal with the Hellfire Club led by Sebastian Shaw, a mutant supremacist bent on enacting nuclear war. At the time of its release, it was intended to be a franchise reboot and contradicted the events of previous films however, the follow-up film X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) retconned First Class into a prequel to X-Men (2000). It was directed by Matthew Vaughn and produced by Bryan Singer, and stars James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Rose Byrne, Jennifer Lawrence, January Jones, Oliver Platt, and Kevin Bacon. It is the fourth mainline installment in the X-Men film series and the fifth installment overall. X-Men: First Class (stylized on-screen as X: First Class) is a 2011 superhero film based on the X-Men characters appearing in Marvel Comics.