With director Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass director) at the helm, X-Men First Class goes back in time to when Professor X and Magneto worked side by side to fight evil and coming to terms with their powers.
Professor X has been taken up by James McAvoy, with 300’s Michael Fassbender taking on the role of the metal-mangling evil one.
The pace of the trailer is initially slow as it sets up the memory-lane premise, but it’s not long before it reveals that First Class is certainly not going to have second-class effects and action sequences.
We see Magneto and Professor X – or merely Eric and Charles in this film – working with other mutants to help the American government prevent a nuclear war.
This gives Eric a chance to levitate a submarine, a young Beast to dodge some missiles in an SR-71 spy plane and Charles to wear an an illuminated brain helmet device and yell a lot.
The trailer ends with Charles warning Eric about the personal price to pay for killing lots of people.
‘It’ll never bring you peace,’ he says. But Eric is having none of it. ‘Peace was never an option,’ he replies. Friendship rift alert.
