Directed by
- Matthew Vaughn
Starring
- James McAvoy
Michael Fassbender
Rose Byrne
January Jones
Jennifer Lawrence
Oliver Platt
Kevin Bacon
Distributed by
- 20th Century Fox
Release date(s)
- June 1, 2011(United Kingdom)
June 3, 2011 (United States) Running time 132 minutes
X-Men: First Class is a 2011 American superhero film directed by Matthew Vaughn and produced by Bryan Singer, based on the characters appearing in Marvel Comics. The fifth installment in the X-Men series, was released on June 1, 2011, in the UK and on June 3 in the US, achieving positive reviews and box-office success.
The film acts as a prequel for the X-Men trilogy and is set primarily in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis and focuses on the relationship between Charles Xavier and Magneto and the origin of their groups, the X-Men and the Brotherhood of Mutants. The film stars James McAvoy as Xavier and Michael Fassbender as Magneto; other cast members include Kevin Bacon, January Jones, Rose Byrne, Jennifer Lawrence, Zoë Kravitz, Nicholas Hoult and Lucas Till.
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