{"id":2347,"date":"2011-02-12T03:36:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T03:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xmenfilms.wordpress.com\/?p=2347"},"modified":"2011-02-12T03:36:27","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T03:36:27","slug":"bryan-singer-excited-about-x-men-first-class-characters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=2347","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Singer excited about X-Men: First Class characters."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>X-MEN: FIRST CLASS producer <strong>Bryan Singer<\/strong> had a chat with <a href=\"https:\/\/herocomplex.latimes.com\/2011\/02\/10\/x-men-first-class-bryan-singer-talks-about-azazel-havok-and-mystique\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Los Angeles Times<\/a> about the film and opened up about some of the mutant characters, including Azazel, Havok, and others.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Singer says that he is excited about Jason Flemyng as the mutant teleporter Azazel, which is &#8220;like this sinister alter ego of Nightcrawler in a way, which brings some of the things that we like about that character but at the same time has a different quality.&#8221; The red-skinned character is Nightcrawler&#8217;s daddy&#8230;at least in the comics.<\/p>\n<p>Another character related to a future X-Man is Havok, who Singer describes as a character that &#8220;is a danger to himself and everyone around him&#8221;, due to his mutant powers. In the comics, the character is portrayed as the <em>younger<\/em> brother of Cyclops, though changes will have to be made for the film. &#8220;We take some liberties on that.&#8221; says Singer. \u201cYes, the time line is different,\u201d Singer said. \u201cIt wouldn\u2019t physically fit for him to be the brother of Cyclops. There are notions, but, um, I don\u2019t want to give away certain interrelations, but let\u2019s just say there are some things that do adhere to the comic books and do so in a way the fans will get a kick out of.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s plenty more to read from the interview so <a href=\"https:\/\/herocomplex.latimes.com\/2011\/02\/10\/x-men-first-class-bryan-singer-talks-about-azazel-havok-and-mystique\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> for the full deal!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/xmenfilms.wordpress.com\/mutants\/\"><em>Who are the mutants of X-Men: First Class?<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X-MEN: FIRST CLASS producer Bryan Singer had a chat with The Los Angeles Times about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crew-talk","category-x-men-first-class"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}