The brand new X-Men prequel, X-Men: First Class, only landed in Cinemas this Wednesday, but James McAvoy – who of course plays a young Charles Xavier in the movie – is already thinking about sequals.
Speaking to Hero Complex James said, “Ideally you have a story arc that lasts three movies and at the end of the third it leaves you ready for the story in X-Men 1. It would be nice to explore things in two more films.
“I keep hearing bits and bobs from the different founts that there are or the different mouths that there are on this job. All I know is that if this one makes some money, they will definitely want to make another one. We’ve had pretty strong critical reaction thus far.”
If there is a follow-up film James and his co-star Michael Fassbender have a clear vision of where the franchise should go next, “I’ve lots of ideas. I know Michael and I are very much on the same page all the time, and we’ll be weighing in to protect that relationship between the two characters. The next movie, if there is one, shouldn’t just start off with them being pals again, but I think it also shouldn’t be like the first movies only set in the 1960s. If we get another, let’s not just make Magneto the bad guy; of course he’s a bad-ass and of course he has a whole different ethos, but making a movie that is black-and-white is going to lose the thing that we have in this one.”
Have you seen X-Men: First Class yet? Do you agree with James that there needs to be two more movies, or is one quite enough?