Yet more superheroics on STS today, as Thor and Cap are joined by the less well-regarded (at least, inside the Marvel Universe) mutant heroes The X-Men. Here’s the first trailer for upcoming X-Men: First Class (we covered it before, but frankly got a bit distracted by a certain ex-MadMen star..), and it looks -not nearly as bad as we’d thought.
Sure the uniforms are dorky, but have enough 60s flair that they feel real enough, and Magneto’s younger cape/buckethead combo really does resemble his 60s comic counterpart -as does the storyline. Longtime comic fans will recall that the X-Men first encounter the deadly master of magnetism as he invades a missile base…
Whether or not this will work sans a certain razor-clawed mutton chopped killing machine remains to be seen, but based on this it could be some fun classic era espionage action.
We all know the best part of the X-Men movies was when Wolverine stuck his in-built kebab skewers through some moron in a cape, so the thought of Hugh Jackman becoming a sort of Robocop/Rocky hybrid is pretty alluring.
Jackman has signed up for Dreamworks’ Real Steel, playing a futuristic pugilist who teams up with an unbeatable mystery robot for some iron-on-iron ring action, not to mention – this being Dreamworks – some father/son bonding.
The director (Night at the Museum’s Shawn Levy) unfortunately leads us to believe this will be more cutesy family Rock ‘ em Sock ‘em Robots than Robot Jox, but hey, low tech automated smackdowns are always good for a few yuks so fingers crossed!
