Alicia Malone
You’ll hear about soon enough anyway, which is why I’m runing it… speaking about the surprise cameo in “X-Men : First Class” which British entertainment writer Dean Piper has ruined Twitter. If you must know, click through; if you’d rather keep it as a surprise… do.
Meanwhile…though a sequel is still a ways off, “X-Men : First Class” director Matthew Vaughn says he’s not opposed to bringing back Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan to reprise their roles as Xavier and Magneto, respectively, for some flashforward scenes in the next movie.
“I have worked with Sir Ian McKellen before, and he is a lovely guy. I would love to work with him again,” the filmmaker tells Movieweb. “So, never say never.”
He mightn’t have thought too much about casting for the next film in the series but Vaughn does have some story ideas.
“I’ve got some ideas for the opening for the next film”, the filmmaker tells HitFix. I thought it would be fun to open with the Kennedy Assassination, and we reveal that the magic bullet was controlled by Magneto. That would explain the physics of it, and we see that he’s pissed off because Kennedy took all the credit for saving the world and mutants weren’t even mentioned. And we could go from there, and I’ve got some fun ideas about what other mutants to bring in. I don’t want to tempt fate, though. If the film’s a hit, of course I’d be interested. I really enjoyed making it.”
As for any new characters next time ’round?
“We will only have one more new character. I won’t say who he…I won’t say who he or she is! But we will only be bringing one more new character in. Because, I think, as Professor X is in a wheelchair, Magneto needs to have a nemesis he can fight with. Someone that will be his equal. I know who it is. It would be nice if I could say something, but I can’t, mate!”
“mate”, love it!
