Laurence Belcher Cast As Young Charles Xavier In X Men: First Class

lol. For me they should name it: X-Men Origins Professor X.
As said before that not [frick]ing First Class :)

Ha, Belcher. Funny name.

Yeah @ BLEED, feed FOX to make more sh1t buddy lol!

I'm not paying a cent to watch this!

So, this makes character #1,428 in the film. If they keep adding anymore they will have the entire X-Men Universe involved. I guess that way it keeps ALL X-Men rights at FOX. HA! I have discovered their evil plan! Bastards!

great another x-men fist ass article,this film is gets worse every second of the day.

i've been a long time x-men fan the first comic i ever brought was the x-men & i meant to just except this bullshit.

why do we have to see professor x as a child,teenage years would be just fine.

i bet marvel are really happy how this movie is shaping up.

x-men born september 1964 - died 3rd june 2011.

@ taboo13

hahahahaahahaha!

isn't the next twilight book gonna be spilt in two parts.

like kill bill vol 1 & vol 2.

and a sequel that has cyclops as a younster and some new characters too, and then a dang x-men 4 with the original cast like colossus,angel,nightcrawler,beast,gambit,storm,rogue,iceman,wolverine, and have cyclops return?x-men first class 2, X-MEN 4.

@ taboo13

do ya like them movies,i won't take the piss.

i promise ya,i'm not as passionate for twilight as i am for superman.

so if you like it,fair play to ya.

its just not my cup of tea.

Why am I feeling a young Anakin vibe from the kid?

I have to say, after reading this site for a while, I'm really sick of all the God damned whining about this movie and Fox Studios. Let it never be denied that dumbass fanboys will one day be the DEATH of comic book movies.

Fox Studios. Once upon a time they released some of the most entertaining blockbusters of their time, movies such as Die Hard and Aliens and more. And then after a while they started sucking. Because of Tom Rothman's insistence of micromanaging talent and [frick]ing with their hired talent's jobs, they haven't released many good films within the past 5 years or so. All that came to a boiling head with X-Men Origins: Wolverine, a masterpiece in studio interference.

So, why am I actually really looking forward to X-Men First Class? Well, I think Fox has actually LEARNED from the error of their ways and most fanboys haven't noticed or perhaps because of mental retardation don't care. And this is only a hopeful thought of mine, but I will say this year Fox has released some movies based on properties and within certain genres that once upon a time would have been box office bombs and critical flops or fanboy ire, but actually aren't.

They released the A-Team, and say what you will about the film, but never at any point watching it did it feel that Fox forced Joe Carnahan to change something to make it more marketable to tweens, or to keep it short at 90 minutes, leaving many opportunities for plot holes, or bring in another director to do "reshoots". It was a decent, fun action film and at no point did I feel I wasn't watching Joe Carnahan's intended film. The same thing happened with Predators. Again, say what you will about the quality of the film, but that WAS the filmmakers's intended film, through and through. In an interview at AICN, Rodriguez even mentioned how great it was working with Fox because, to his actual surprise, THEY LET THE FILMMAKERS MAKE THE FILM. They didn't [frick] with it at all and simply released the film. Same with Machete as well, even.

The point of all this is, to my honest surprise, it really does seem like Fox is trying change their ways, which is why I really don't think this new X-Men film will be anything near as bad as X3 or Wolverine. They've hired Matthew Vaughn, a director with his own artistic vision and crew that he's gotten used to working with. Many of the same people who made "Stardust" and "Kick-Ass" with Vaughn are working on this film. The fact that Jane Goldman, along with Vaughn, is writing this screenplay, instead of a couple of studio stooges Fox keeps on standby, is frankly unreal.

What most people seem to keep bitching about is, "Ohh, but its nawt furst class, they arr [frick]ing up da continuity, no cyclops and Jean! frick Fox!", which is just absolutely childish and stupid. First of all, the continuity set up in the film universe is NOT THE SAME AS THE COMICS AND NEVER WAS. I'd honestly like someone to name one comic book film series for either Marvel or DC (not Kick-Ass or Watchmen or V) that had this SLAVISH devotion to comics continuity they seem to expect this X-Men film to have. Spider-Man sure as [frick] didn't. Iron Man doesn't. Hulk. Nolan's Batman films seem to think R'has al Ghul and Scarecrow were Batman's first villains, way back in 1939, which they obviously weren't. So how come the people who bitch about this movie don't bitch about those? It's simple: BECAUSE THEY WERE GOOD. The last 2 X-Men films weren't bad because they messed around with the continuity and introduced characters into stories they never belonged in. They were bad because they were butchered by the studio and made by incompetent people (BRETTRATNER).

Any rational thinking person would have been able to tell that, going by the movie continuity (again, MOVIE CONTINUITY=/=COMIC BOOK CONTINUITY), Cyclops would never be in this, as he was recruited sometime in the 80's/90's as detailed in the shitty Wolverine movie, and Jean Grey was only a little girl at that time too. Vaughn and Goldman's film is not about the classic "first class" from the comic, but the relationship between Magneto and Xavier, and their earliest attempts at an X-Men team. They're working the best that they can with the continuity set up in the previous 4 films.

Ok, rant over. Just wanted to get that out of my system because it really does seem like a lot of chuckleheads around here are writing off what could potentially be a really [frick]ing cool X-Men movie. It's set in the 60's, it's got a GREAT cast so far, and it's got great talent behind it, and it just annoys me that people only care about the [frick]ing continuity. These people are actually trying to make a good film, and fanboys still complain.

End rant.

inturder- im just saying they got all the character right. and im never telling you all the time that you don't know what you talking about. this is the only time i am telling you that u r wrong.

Cole91- right said in about the rant and the studio and the movie so far. but dude haven't you noticed if you say captain America will bomb some tells you that your an idiot, but when it comes to fox movies they rant all they want. and people don't understand is that is called first class because of the first class Xavier and magneto train

Screw the "tween audience". Anybody over the age of 20 can say, through experience and observation, that tweens are among the worst human beings on Earth. Don't make anything to attract them.

@ flamers, Cyclops is kind of a pussy. It's not his fault, it's just how he's portrayed in the comics. Sabertooth isn't exactly the brightest bulb in the shed in the comics either. Fair point on Storm. Toad is a hopping joke in any damn medium he appears in. Mystique...ok, they designed her a certain way, she's still accurate to the comic character. As for Iceman...he's exactly the way he was in the original comics (but more contemporary), and don't forget they would have filmed that movie in 1999, I doubt they had decent effects to pull off the full Iceman look. And Pyro was a very cool, dark reflection of Iceman, but that's ok, I don't expect a 13 year old to recognize solid writing and character development (I'm assuming you're 13, judging from your use of the words "butt buddy" and "jizzman").

@MovieTheaterLad, agreed 100%.

Oh, back to the point the child was making with Burton and Singer. You forgot about Singer's Superman movie. I'm sure everyone loved the un-wed father of Lois Lane's bastard child angle the movie had. That being one of the many points against it. Not everyone blows a load over Burton's films either. Don't forget that the studio had to throw money at Michael Keaton to get him to come back for the second Batman film because of the script. People take shots at Burton as much as Singer, it's just that Bruton only goofed on one franchise... not two (maybe three).

Anyone who doesn't recognize X2 as a good comic book/X-Men film is beyond arguing with.