SDCC 2012: X-Men First Class Sequel Update

Elysium Producer Simon Kinberg – who is also writing the sequel to X-Men: First Class – gave Superherohype an interview where he dropped a couple hints about what we can expect in the story.

“I’m not allowed to even breathe a word of any sort of details but I can say that the things that we thought worked well in ‘First Class’ were the characters, especially the four or five lead characters. The Charles-Erik relationship was obviously incredibly resonant and James and Michael did such an amazing job as those characters. Jen Lawrence and Nick Hoult, that’s a really interesting relationship between Raven and Hank, so we’re really going to be focusing on character and personally I really liked the period aspect of ‘First Class’ so we may well do that.”

We have to guess that at least part of the reason for the focus on the Beast/ Mystique storyline is that Jennifer Lawrence’s stock has jumped way up the Hunger Games.

He also took some time to talk about the continuity issues that First class brough upon the FOX X-Men Franchise

“It’s an interesting thing and I wouldn’t know how to define it because we tried to be as respectful as possible in ‘First Class’ to the ‘Singer-verse,’ to ‘X1-3’ really, and there are places where we diverged from that and broke that, but there were other places where we were really respectful to, like even little silly things like the Rebecca Romijn cameo, so we are constructing it with ‘X1-3’ in mind. There may be some places where we don’t line up perfectly but it is something we are very aware of and want to be respectful of and the people who are responsible for those movies–Lauren Schuler-Donner, Bryan Singer and Fox–are all involved.”

Source: superherohype