Vaughn confirmed as much several years ago when he revealed to Max Evry at ComingSoon that the original plan was to do a second movie that would’ve further developed some of the background players, like Nicholas Hoult’s Beast, Banshee (Caleb Landry Jones), and of course Emma Frost (January Jones). But in between, we would’ve gotten something very different: a movie that didn’t throw away most of the First Class roster beyond Xavier ( James McAvoy), Magneto ( Michael Fassbender), and Mystique ( Jennifer Lawrence). At its core, Vaughn’s 1962-set First Class was as much a soft reboot of the X-Men movie franchise as it was a prequel to the Bryan Singer and Brett Ratner films, and in some other universe the story it began might’ve ended quite differently.įor starters, Vaughn himself was originally slated to helm not just First Class but a whole trilogy of X-Men period pieces, which would’ve begun with the ’62-set adventure and culminated in the ‘70s with X-Men: Days of Future Past. This is particularly apt for X-Men: First Class since the new era of fun go-go mutant movies that film promised ultimately went on to crash and burn with the bad and worse one-two punch of X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) and Dark Phoenix (2019). In our current moment when fan culture constantly obsesses over what’s next-what year will we get that fabled reboot of the X-Men in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and what will the cast look like?-high-water marks from the past tend to go forgotten. And yet, when looking back at that now 10-years-old and still groovy superhero adventure, it feels worthy of the spotlight, not least of all because there’s a whole new generation of superhero fans who’ve probably never seen what is quite arguably the best X-Men movie ever made. Normally, content that’s being added to a massive streaming service doesn’t need to be singled out. Getting out of the UK for a while, ‘Villa Gesell’ in Argentina, where Lenssher follows the trail of Shaw, is the village of Villa La Angostura, Neuquén, surprisingly actually in Argentina.Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class is making its premiere on Disney+ this week. It had to be recreated in the studio for the Sixties scenes of Edgar Wright's Last Night In Soho. In 2020, following the Covid lockdown, it finally closed its doors for good. It bounced back as a glamorous nitespot in Lone Scherfig’s 2009 Oscar-nominated An Education, and became the Krays' 'Hide-A-Way' club in Legend. Rebuilt, it continued to provide entertainment for the glitterati until it hit a slump in the Eighties, when it found fame as a movie backdrop, for Absolute Beginners, Scandal, The Krays and the Café slummed it a little as the ‘Soho’ strip club where John Goodman relaxed in King Ralph. Tragically, this turned out not to be the case, and a direct hit killed 34 people. The Las Vegas ‘Atomic’ casino, where Moira MacTaggert gets her lead to the mutants, was built in the USA, but its ‘Hellfire Club’, in which the powerful elite disport themselves with scantily-clad girls, was the Café de Paris, Coventry Street, in London’s West End between Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square.ĭuring the Blitz, when most of the West End closed down, the Café remained open on the assumption that it was bomb-proof. X-Men: First Class location: the 'Hellfire Club, Las Vegas': Cafe De Paris (now closed), Coventry Street, London W1 | Photograph © Cafe De Paris The gardens, though not the house itself, are open for visits.Įnglefield has appeared in Disney's Cruella (with a little CGI as 'Hellman Hall'), Woody Allen’s Match Point, the 2008 Noël Coward adaptation Easy Virtue and, most famously, provided interiors for ‘Buckingham Palace’ in The King’s Speech. The ‘Westchester, New York’ home of young (and wealthy) Charles Xavier, later to become the ‘Xavier Academy’, is Englefield House, Theale, west of Reading in Berkshire. This is where the Nazi concentration camp in ‘Poland’, where young Erik Lenssher first discovers his magnetic powers (and which was in Toronto, Ontario, for the first X-Men film) was recreated. With Matthew Vaughn taking over the franchise, X-Men: First Class was based at Pinewood Studios in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire and most of the locations can be found in the UK.
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