Matthew Vaughn Talks X-Men: First Class, Azazel Scene Details Revealed!

Matthew Vaughn Talks X-Men: First Class, Azazel Scene Details Revealed!

Matthew Vaughn sheds some more light on the tone of the upcoming movie, comparing it to James Bond and Batman Begins, while we also have a brief description of an action packed scene featuring Azazel...

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By JoshWilding - Mar 09, 2011 04:03 AM EST
Filed Under: X-Men
Source: IGN Movies

In a preview of IGN Movies upcoming reports on their X-Men: First Class set visit, the site have revealed a few brief details earlier today, including the following comments from Matthew Vaughn and details on a scene that sees Azazel attack the mysterious Man in Black's headquarters. For more, be sure to head on over to the site by clicking below.

"This is going to be very different. What I'm doing no one has done in superhero films. It's James Bond, it's a political thriller and it's an X-Men movie. It's not like the other X-Men movies which I think is important. I think they need to sort of take on a new... you know, what Batman Begins did for all those Batman movies? We bloody well need it. I'm not saying it's going to be as good as Batman Begins, but it's the same sort of attitude."




Here is a brief description of just one of the action packed scenes that they were lucky enough to be a witness to when they visited the set of the highly anticipated (and somewhat controversial) comic book movie.

We did however get to witness Vaughn shooting an action-packed set-piece involving an assault on the MIB HQ.

The sequence in question revolved around a group of Shaw's men - led by the devlish Azael (Jason Flemyng) - laying waste to a team of security guards before attacking the compound's recreation room.

Inside, a clearly terrified group of young mutants panic, with their number including Raven (Jennifer Lawrence), Hank (Nicholas Hoult), Angel (Zoe Kravitz), Darwin (Edi Gathegi), Alex (Lucas Till) and Cassidy (Caleb Landry Jones).



X-Men: First Class is set to be released on June 3, later this year!



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lokisilvertongue
lokisilvertongue - 3/9/2011, 4:18 AM
i think i read tht comment from him somewere before is he using the same quotes because he has nothing else 2 say bout the movie lol
marvel72
marvel72 - 3/9/2011, 4:34 AM
"i'm not saying its going to be as good as batman begins"

thats good i like a director thats got faith in his own movie,it won't be any better then x-men 3 or x-men origins wolverine would of been a better quote.
THESPIDERMAN96
THESPIDERMAN96 - 3/9/2011, 4:36 AM
sorry i not care about this movie lol
lokisilvertongue
lokisilvertongue - 3/9/2011, 4:40 AM
@slaine in a previous article on this site he made the exact same quote lol
Grimm
Grimm - 3/9/2011, 4:52 AM
@ slain
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/MarvelFreshman/news/?a=28575
Vaughn comparing First a$$ to James bond...He wasn't quoted on the "political thriller" angle though. So Slain, I guess you out trolled loki...
Grimm
Grimm - 3/9/2011, 4:57 AM
btw...who gives a rodents rectum?
canadianturd
canadianturd - 3/9/2011, 5:49 AM
Anyone else boycotting this?
LocoLobo1127
LocoLobo1127 - 3/9/2011, 5:59 AM
yeah still skipping this one, Train wreck
marvel72
marvel72 - 3/9/2011, 6:04 AM
@ canadianturd

i'm gonna download it for free,i'm not paying to see this.
Superheromoviefan
Superheromoviefan - 3/9/2011, 6:31 AM
Do you know how it could be as good as Batman Begins?
REBOOT!
Digitaria51
Digitaria51 - 3/9/2011, 6:43 AM
@tea wear a god damn condom you sick bastard

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CraptainAmerica
CraptainAmerica - 3/9/2011, 6:45 AM
Well at least he's honest. Let's face it, if he said it was going to be better than Nolan's Batman movies we would laugh in his face. He's being a realist. People are hating on two minutes of footage and a handful of pictures. With the time he had and the FOX's X-Men continuity he had to make fit he's done what he could. He's a talented director. A big comic fanboy. As is the writer. I have trust that we will get one hell of a film given what resources and time he had.

I have faith in this movie and I'll be seeing it...maybe twice. Maybe more.
dfresh
dfresh - 3/9/2011, 7:18 AM
I love the things that people pull out of these quotes and interviews and turn into a negative spin. Meanwhile, Chris Hemsworth could compare Thor to his bowel movement and it would be called Epic.
dfresh
dfresh - 3/9/2011, 7:20 AM
One would think that him saying he's taking the franchise in a totally different direction would be inspiring to those that seem to hate the previous movies. Especially when drawing comparisons to what Batman Begins has done, which I'm sure you all love.
Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 3/9/2011, 7:37 AM
Seriously dfresh, people take whatever they want out of CBM news. I bet that if Thor gets raped by critics and X-Men is nominated for a bunch of academy awards Thor will still be called "Epic" while X-Men will get the big "Fail!"
KeithM
KeithM - 3/9/2011, 7:50 AM
@Craptain America: Goldman only got involved in the final script stage (Vaughn's fixer?). She worked on a story from Singer (who is not a comic fan, as we know), and from a script that 3 others worked on:

Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Jane Goldman screenplay
Ashley Miller screenplay
Jamie Moss screenplay
Bryan Singer story
Zack Stentz screenplay

I trust Goldman to improve on what she had, and Vaughn to make the best of what he has to work with, but Singer's involvement and the number of hands on the screenplay do give me cause for concern.

I'm withholding judgement until I see it for myself, and I really like Vaughn as a director (his music choices and the action sequences will be awesome, that's for sure), but the words "Singer" and "Fox" temper any potential optimism in the equation for me.

Just take the characters chosen, for example. You can tell they were Singer's choices because they would NOT be the choices an X-Men fan would make (even if you wanted to go pre-Scott and Jean et al.)

Good superhero film? Maybe. Maybe not. We'll see. Not really going to be the real X-Men - "the X-Men you always wanted to see" - though whatever happens. Elseworlds. What If...?

Maybe Marvel will get it back and reboot, maybe they won't and Fox will keep it forever and just keep churning them out, so considering this may be the ONLY iteration of the X-Men we get on the big screen , for some of us that's a bit of a shame and lessens our enthusiasm somewhat. Not to the extremes some people display, but whereas we could genuinely be excited about a movie (e.g. Thor, Cap, The Avengers), in this case, based on experience and a deeply entrenched sense of 'meh - it's not really the X-Men', it's difficult to get excited, truly.

Imagine the Avengers movie featuring Wonder Man, Tigra, Iron Man and Dr Druid. And this was meant to be their origin movie. WTF? Right? This is how some of the X-fans feel about this. And that's perfectly understandable in my book, however the movie turns out.
Stumblin
Stumblin - 3/9/2011, 7:52 AM
weaponx5203, cut that spam shit out, no one cares.
Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 3/9/2011, 8:04 AM
Keith, lots of movies have numerous people working on their scripts but not all of them are credited. We will see how many of them are credited for this movie closer to it's release. And Singer can still write a good story despite his lacking an overabundance of comic knowledge. We all know already that this isn't going to be 100% comic book accurate, but it still has the potential to be a really good movie.

And even though this is called "First Class", it's a Magneto and Professor X movie that merely FEATURES the beginnings of the X-men.
dfresh
dfresh - 3/9/2011, 8:17 AM
@Keith, I do appreciate your breakdown and reasoning. You are not the fanatical and illogical hater as too many around here are.

However, I have to disagree with one point. You say if the Avengers movie was released featuring a slew of randoms it would be comparable. However, we've already had a movie titled "X-Men" featuring most of the core members that people know and want. We've had 3 of them in fact. So this is by no means the first introduction to the gang.

A better comparison would be if after 3 Avengers movies with the original crew, Marvel decided to go back to WWII era and make a movie about the Invaders, but brand the movie with Avengers somewhere in the title. That's all this is. Would that be so horrible? Honestly, the root of so much of the uproar is just the fact that they chose the title First Class, which is laughable. It was just a phrase that sounded cool!
juggy4711
juggy4711 - 3/9/2011, 8:24 AM
The trailer was good but on paper everything about this movie is a cluster frick. I hope the whole movie is a enjoyable as the trailer. That said I'm still not sure how far past the changes from source and established movie continuity I will be able to get.
BrotherQStark
BrotherQStark - 3/9/2011, 8:30 AM
The trailer to First Class was great, I have to admit, this might be the best X-Men film
KeithM
KeithM - 3/9/2011, 8:34 AM
@Ryguy: I know what you're saying. I'm not one of those who are 'hating' on it before it comes out. If it's a good superhero movie then I'll take it as just that. I can do that. :)

But I do fully understand why some people, especially the proper X-Men fans, are less than enthused about it.

Too many arbitrary changes which, while they could 'work' in their own right, will inevitably leave many with a deep empty feeling of "if only..." inside them. ;)
KeithM
KeithM - 3/9/2011, 8:43 AM
@dfresh: My point about "these are NOT the choices an X-Men fan would make, even if you go pre-Scott and Jean, etc." still stands.

Stick 10 X-Men fans in a room and tell them to fight it out until they pick a Magneto/Charles pre-X-Men co-cast.

(Better still, stick Joss Whedon, Grant Morrison, Chris Claremont and Stan Lee in a room and tell THEM to fight it out...) :D

How many of them would choose Alex Summers? Angel-girl? Whoever-the-hell some of those others are? Some are obvious. Moira. Hellfire Club. Hank pre-fur. Others are random at best.

Despite all that, like I said, I'll give it a chance at least and if it's an entertaining movie, I'll enjoy it for that, but still hope that Marvel get to 'do it right' one day. :)
scallywagthedog
scallywagthedog - 3/9/2011, 8:52 AM
Are we not quoting Azael's "You WILL have my baby!" or "I'm gonna put a big 'ol baby deep inside you!" (or whatever) anymore? I miss the old days. sigh.
loganaspatch
loganaspatch - 3/9/2011, 9:11 AM
I love that part when he says "im not saying its going to be as good as the dark knight" lol
imnotwearinghockeypants
imnotwearinghockeypants - 3/9/2011, 9:47 AM
I don't hate that he's exploring a different presentation tactic. X3 was rancid.
SKGannbit
SKGannbit - 3/9/2011, 10:15 AM
boycott
BrotherInBlue
BrotherInBlue - 3/9/2011, 10:16 AM
Why do people continually come on to say 'Its gonna be rubbish' or 'Im not gonna watch it'? Fine, well theres no need to keep letting us know. Im quietly confident about this movie, especially from Vaughn who has not yet made a movie that has not been enjoyable and exciting
Ven0m
Ven0m - 3/9/2011, 10:23 AM
I wont be paying to see this shit.
mattattack
mattattack - 3/9/2011, 10:32 AM
im stoked for this.
Bigbywolf
Bigbywolf - 3/9/2011, 10:34 AM
Vaughan seems to have single-handly kept Jason Flemying acting career going. The dude is in all his films.
drfate
drfate - 3/9/2011, 11:26 AM
I don't mind CBM's making changes, I really don't, but this flick has gone TOO far in taking liberties! with that said, I will not be seeing this movie first weekend; I'll wait for all of your reviews! But, I think, from all I've seen, its gonna be a visually appealing stinker!
fullmetal
fullmetal - 3/9/2011, 11:31 AM
x3 was bad, so bad in fact what a it's hard not to welcome this film, just for the fact that it will be better...it's just there's so much resistance to this new first class line up and this original story because x men have hundreds of stories that would be better on the big screen...all these "happy go lucky, look at the bright side morons" are a bunch of suckers, downing loyalist who are upset at this film's premise...when someone butchers a beloved story, hatred from the fan base is rightfully deserved!!! B O Y C O T T
Luther
Luther - 3/9/2011, 12:18 PM
Dfresh and RyGuy especially, that's what I've said in so many posts! But I get called a "troll" for it.

It having "First Class" in it's name, and not have the original 5 is the MAIN complaint everyone seems to have.

I have faith in it though, and expect it to branch off into a trilogy in it's own. Which by the end of this "First Class Trilogy" we will see in some way the original five working together as the newly dubbed X-Men, thus pleasing the fanboys and critics alike.
PurpleHaze92
PurpleHaze92 - 3/9/2011, 12:27 PM
FUG THIS MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!
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