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A Pic Of The Hellfire Club From X-MEN: FIRST CLASS!!
Merrick here...
The latest issue of Empire - the one with the new Prime on the cover (see it HERE) - also has a photo from X-MEN: FIRST CLASS, which is now online over at Empire's site.
Empire describes the image thusly...
Featuring Kevin Bacon - as Shaw, the leader of decadent mutant bastards, The Hellfire Club - and January Jones as his right-hand woman (stop sniggering), the telepath Emma Frost in their snazzy secret lair, it's yet another indicator that Matthew Vaughn's 60s-set prequel will have a visual flair that sets it apart from the previous X-movies.
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Robert Schuller is Sebastian Shaw.
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...Class looks like it might be good.
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March 2, 2011, 11:32 a.m. CST
Nice mirror room. Bruce Lee is still trying to find his way out of there.
by vic twenty
Along with the wizard in Conan the Destroyer - the green masked wrestler that got sliced everytime someone broke a mirror? Oh, never mind.
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God-bless 'em!
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did they borrow the ice hotel from that for this scene?
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Me no watchie.
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its not too late too add them digitally
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Didn't the trailer imply that this takes place around the Cuban Missile Crisis? Of course, perhaps in X-Men World the Hellfire Club could be SO HIP that they INVENTED mod fashion during the Kennedy administration.
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No mansion...the Hellfire Club are now a gang of roller-skating billionaires who dance around good guys with their groovy skating moves.....wow, this is nothing like the comicbook Hellfire Club. What a shame, the Hellfire Club from the Clairmont run was pretty awesome....and formidable. I really wished they had gone their in X-Men 3 instead of re-treading once again with Magneto. This looks like a waste. Somebody please get someone in here to film the real X-Men...anybody? anybody? Please help out us X-Men fans......
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You can see the cameraman getting the shot of Bacon and Jones. Hard to spot, but it's there.
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March 2, 2011, 12:17 p.m. CST
Thier Head Quarters is the Electric Psychadelic Pussycat Club?
by jarjarmessiah
In Swinging London?
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I now have cataracts from all the UV in that shot.
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As I recall from John Byrne's sumptuous artwork way back when; the Hellfire Club's headquarters was a lavish Georginan mansion with all their techno-wizardry firmly out of sight. This thing is looking sillier by the minute...
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The most impressive thing I've seen from this film so far.
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Definitely getting an Austin Powers vibe from this.
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March 2, 2011, 1:06 p.m. CST
January Jones is one of the worst actresses I have ever seen
by ShiftyEyedDog
She's boring and unmemorable on Mad Men, she did one of the all-time WORST hosting gigs on SNL, and in the new Liam Neeson movies she confirms she has no business being in show business. ...and no, she's not even that hot either.
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I don't know shit about the comix, so crucify me. This is looking/sounding about 1000% better than X3, and I'm really psyched.
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this is the inside of the hellfire submarine. specifically, this room keeps charles out of sebastian's thoughts.
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in place of 'snicker'.
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They could have honestly cast a cardboard cutout and a voice actress and got a better performance.
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fukin hollywood. she is the girl next door, and a slightly retarded one at that. her personality is more of a Mary Jane Watson, in a stretch she might even be an early Invisible Girl but she being Emma Frost is retarded
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Fuck this movie.
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That photo seems to have caught the cinematographer on a blue day, Lucky I Have Ireland beating England in the Cricket World Cup to cheer me up!!! Sweeet!
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March 2, 2011, 2:24 p.m. CST
I'm not normally one the whine about old images
by KEVIN_COSTNERS_RECYCLED_PISS
But I already saw this in a MAGAZINE. Come on, the internet's supposed to be where you go to get the up-to-the-minute info on stuff.
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1972 maybe.
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March 2, 2011, 2:55 p.m. CST
*sigh* Have I mentioned how burnt out super hero movies I am?
by spire_walk
Mention it hell, it's on my coat-of-arms.
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March 2, 2011, 2:56 p.m. CST
January Jones's hotness suffers from her lack of personality
by gooseud
My mind just struggles to grasp a concept of how she could possibly be good in bed, with exhibit A being how she has had 5 million celeb boyfriends, none of whom have proposed or even kept her around for more then 6 months.
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Yeah she looks like a total mannequin in bed.
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March 2, 2011, 3:13 p.m. CST
"They look like they're from 1966-68, not 1962" hahahaahahahahahahahahhaha
by THE_ONE_MAN_GANG
seriously! your that guy.or girl. probably guynerd. who the fuck cares.
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I thought I was looking at a still for a No One Lives Forever movie. It's mod clothing they're wearing, most definitely not the early 60s. Mad Men is more of the style from 1962. People were starting to swing a bit and the music already changing etc don't get me wrong, but the fashion wasn't at the mod point yet. Definitely looks mid 60s to early 70s. It would have been good if they were trying to make an Avengers movie or something, it honestly reminds me of that classic tv... Fucking fail. Don't any of these idiots know anything about costume history?
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A MAD MEN/X-MEN crossover. You know you want it.
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I'm sure this will be great, but Kevin Bacon as Shaw is really bizarre casting. I guess we'll see. Oh, and where are the chops?
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March 2, 2011, 3:45 p.m. CST
I'm half expecting Dazzler to jump out and skate around.
by Cletus Van Damme
Play that funky music, whiteboy!
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English mustn't be your first language. What are you, American?
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March 2, 2011, 3:54 p.m. CST
It really is possible that The Hellfire Club represent the coming near-future
by Yaroh_Meringue
Even if they didn't consciously intend for them to do so. It's not necessarily a "fail". Everything I've seen from this film so far is a vast improvement over the design schizophrenia of X3 and the TOTAL VISUAL BORINGNESS of X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
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March 2, 2011, 3:57 p.m. CST
The new Wonder Woman would have made a much better Emma Frost
by MooseMalloy
Jones exudes boringness.
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March 2, 2011, 4:18 p.m. CST
mr ahole ramirez, I hear the word 'snigger' all the time
by KEVIN_COSTNERS_RECYCLED_PISS
Only usually it's without the S
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ever since the first X-Men film (which I still enjoy) we've made far too big a deal of stills like this one. As someone said, I believe this is the Hellfire submarine, which is supposed to be shielded against Xavier's probes (as we recall from the preview, you do in fact see Magneto pulling a chromed sub from the depths--Hellfire club trying to frame the Russians maybe?). Regardless of the look of the setting, there's nowhere to go but up for these films, where I am concerned. I hope they do a good job with the Hellfire Club, though I am more concerned as to how the characters will work out.
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March 2, 2011, 4:20 p.m. CST
This movie will forever be compared to Austin Powers
by alienindisguise
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...upside down, I think. Which of course means WORST FILM EVAR FUCK YOU VAUGHN.
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DAMMMIT!
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Studio Pic of mutant super villains' costumes causes gay talkbacker tizzy! --Interwebz, USA. Angry trolls came out of their holes today to voice concern over the wardrobes of characters in this summer's X-Men: First Class, posted initially by Empire Magazine and regurgitated by Aint It Cool News. "Fucking fail. Don't any of these idiots know anything about costume history?" asked Marat, presumably a half man/ half rat with a penchant for fashion history. The rodent/human hybrid pointed out that they should dress more like the cast of "Mad Men," since the story takes place circa the Cuban Missile Crisis. Mod fashion, he argues, came onto the scene a few years later. Marat did not mention other "fucking fails," like how people don't evolve enough to master magnetism or teleport until the year 2525 (if man is still alive). Other posters at the formerly relevant website also criticized "Mad Men" actress January Jones, who plays Emma Frost. While she plays a frigid bitch in the '60s on an Emmy-winning show, they speculate that she lacks the acting chops to portray a mutant frigid bitch in the '60s on a sure-to-be-Razzie nominee. One question remains unanswered by these critics: Why blast her chops when you should be tappin' 'dat ass?
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...looks like an ST:TNG era warp core.
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This film is supposed to be set in October 1962, but everyone knows that the cut of trouser worn by Kevin Bacon in this shot did not first appear until December of that year!</p> </p> Fail, Mr Vaughn. FAIL!!!
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liked the aesthetic of Hammer Horror, not mod or Jerry Cornelius.
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March 2, 2011, 5:22 p.m. CST
Hellfire Club? And Emma is covered up in the shot?
by Grinning White Skull
Shouldn't Emma Frost be dressed half-naked and in white leather and boots for a shot like this?!!! What a let-down!
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I don't remember the Hellfire Club having a weird mirror room. Everything I remember from the comics was Old World opulence, big fireplaces, heavy wood furniture, canopy beds and the like. And where's Selene? Monica Bellucci could do it.
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Does this dum ass Matthew Vaughn have ANYYYYYY idea what the X-men are???? any back ground???? ANYYYYYY?? of curs this had to be in paper befor so thers no suprise Bryan Singer started this mess. BARFFFFF
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The sex party from Eyes Wide Shut? That was totally Hellfire Club members in a rented mansion while the mirror room was being renovated.
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royston, ive actually been to sex parties, and they look nothing like eyes wide shut, they just look like a regular g rated party, except some people randomly decide to just go upstairs And have sex. having said that, this room would be crucial for such a gathering.
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Looks like it.
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The Hellfire Club (from the John Byrne run of X-Men, at any rate, which I consider the definitive version) was almost like a super-powered S&M club. That picture looks too shiny, like they modeled it after images of Krypton from Richard Donner's Superman. And most importantly, there's no debauchery (as far as I can tell, at any rate). Then there's the casting of Kevin Bacon as Sebastian Shaw: Wrong, wrong, wrong (as Dr. Cox from Scrubs would say). Bob Hoskins, off the top of my head, would better resemble Sebastian Shaw, besides being as strong–if not stronger–an actor as Kevin Bacon.
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March 2, 2011, 11:55 p.m. CST
You mean the X men saved us from the Cuban Missle Crisis?
by darthSaul666
Sorry Bertrand Russel... I guess your services weren't need after all... Hey Didn't the HellFire Club brainwash Jean Grey when she was the Phoenix causing her to have problems with being evil? While we're at it were is the rest of the First Class... I guess Cyclops, Angel, and Ice Man aren't need either..... I'm seriously not digging the X men cinematic universe... They're putting the comic book stories into the blender too often and they seem to be getting worse over time!!!!
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March 3, 2011, 6:23 a.m. CST
"Im sorry if I have to google words that NO ONE ever uses... "
by buggerbugger
Everyone in Britain uses it. Britain, home of the English language. Where "snigger" is a word and "snicker" would be mistaken for a chocolate bar.
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This film has loads of possibilities. Let's hope Matthew Vaughan doesn't drop the ball.
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March 3, 2011, 11:34 a.m. CST
Did I write that I think Eyes Wide Shut was realistic?
by Royston Lodge
No I did not. Yeesh...
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Love the blue, love the mirrors, love the angle, love the retro 60s, LOVE Betty Draper. I'm just about sold on this.
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Despite the embiggening prospects related to January Jones, I suspect I won't enjoy this as much as a Fripp & Eno record.
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