First view of X-Men First Class

[love_james]

Fox moved at superheroic speed to fill out the members of “X-Men: First Class” - starting with the man who leads the pack.

The studio hired James McAvoy to play the role of Charles Xavier, the professor who organizes the X-Men band of mutants into a group (and force for good). Patrick Stewart played Xavier in the original set of pictures, but of course as an origin story, many of the characters in “First Class” will skew younger.

McAvoy, who's next up in the Robert Redford post-Civil War drama “The Conspirator,” has played in films with superhero themes before, primarily as a lead character in the assassin picture “Wanted.”

Aussie bombshell Rose Byrne will play Moira MacTaggert, a scientist and love interest of Xavier.

- Steven Zeitchik

source: http://www.flix66.com/2011/01/18/james-mcavoy-and-january-jones-in-a-image-from-x-men-first-class/ &

http://www.thisisbrandx.com/2011/01/charles-xavier-mind-behind-the-x.html