You know, the promo materials for X-Men: First Class have really been hit or miss. One day, like yesterday, we get to check out a super-cool promo image from the film. The next day, like today, we get a couple of movie posters that look SO terrible that it’s hard to believe they are genuine [...]
You know, the promo materials for X-Men: First Class have really been hit or miss. One day, like yesterday, we get to check out a super-cool promo image from the film. The next day, like today, we get a couple of movie posters that look SO terrible that it’s hard to believe they are genuine studio-released posters. Check out 2 new promo posters for X-Men: First Class — one domestic and one international — and see which one you hate less.
When is a sequel not a sequel? When it is a prequel, of course. If this summer’s X-Men: First Class proves successful for Fox, the studio will be more than happy to move ahead with another installment of 1960′s-set mutant happenings, and we’ll be looking at a sequel to a prequel; a pre-sequel or a se-prequel. In fact, if the proposed First Class trilogy happens, the X-Men prequel films will outnumber those in the original timeline, since X-Men Origins: Wolverine was also a prequel. Strange times. Anyways, two new international posters for the next round of mutant action have hit, and they features much of our the new ensemble, with James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender leading the way. The first poster debuted at Empire. Poor Lucas Till as Havoc, hanging out in the very back while sexy ladies Rose Byrne and January Jones, playing Dr. Moira McTaggert and The White Queen, get their strut on in the middle ground. Still, at least Till made the poster; Banshee, played by Caleb Landry Jones, was not so lucky. There’s Nicholas Hoult looking blue as Beast over on the left, with Kevin Bacon’s villainous Sebastian Shaw looking debonair over on the right. The winged lady behind him is Zoe Kravitz as Angel Salvadore, and the devilish gentleman in front of her is Azazel, played by Jason Flemyng. And here’s the second poster, which debuted at Comingsoon. It deletes several characters, but adds the Blackbird jet and some missiles. Matthew Vaughn takes a crack at the X-franchise with X-Men: First Class on June 3rd.
Fail Fail Fail!! Who the Hell do they have making these posters?! These posters are almost as bad as those horrid shadow posters of Professor X and Magneto that we saw last month. The promo images have been ace, the promo posters have mostly been crap (tho, I do still really like THESE reflection posters released in early March). In the end, none of this promo stuff will matter if the film turns out to be good (and I am PRAYING that it does) but I cannot see how marketing people think these kinds of cheap-looking posters will draw in audiences. What do y’all think? Do you love or loathe these new posters?
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