X-Men: First Class is a movie directed by Matthew Vaughn in 2011 and based on the characters from the comic book X-Men by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, first published in 1987. The movie features James McAvoy, Laurence Belcher, Michael Fassbender, Bill Milner, Kevin Bacon, Rose Byrne, and others.
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“The movie is better than the comic book”
But the comic book is worth reading.
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Storyline
In 1944, in a Nazi death camp, Nazi officer Klaus Schmidt witnesses young prisoner Erik Lehnsherr bending a metal gate with his mind when he is separated from his parents. In Las Vegas, CIA officer Moira MacTaggert follows U.S. Army Colonel Hendry into the Hellfire Club, where she sees Schmidt with mutant telepath Emma Frost, teleporter Azazel, and cyclone-producing Riptide.
Movie vs Book
Year
2011
Minutes
131
Movie Rate
7.70
Source: IMDb
Movie
X-Men: First Class
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Country: USA
Year: 2011
Length: 2h11m
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Year
1987
Pages
241
Book Rate
7.82
S: Goodreads
Comic Book
X-Men
Author: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby
Country: USA
First published in: 1987
Length: 241 pages
Genre: Fiction
Book series: X-Men
Other screen adaptations of the comic book
TV Series by Mark Edward Edens, Sidney Iwanter, Eric Lewald
Movie by Bryan Singer
Movie by Bryan Singer
User polls & recommendations
“I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels. If the movie never gets made, it'd almost be okay because I did it. It's there on the page.”
QUENTIN TARANTINO (Filmmaker, Scriptwriter, Actor)
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