X-Men: First Class Recreating Opening from First Film
Fri, October 1, 2010 
This finally puts an end to the "Is it a prequel or reboot?" question posed for X-Men: First Class. It's the former.
Bleeding Cool says director Matthew Vaughn & Co. are recreating the opening to Bryan Singer's original ten years ago. That sequence (of a young pre-Magneto Eric Lensherr witnessing his family being carted away by the Nazis) made it clear this world (at least, under Singer's watch) wasn't one-liners with over-muscled stunt guys in silly costumes. I even remember my sister asking in horror, "Oh my God, this is a comic-book movie?"
Vaughn's team are reshooting the actor near shot-to-shot (with new actors, duh), but apparently deviates with "some very dramatic twists." Hmmm.
Thankfully, we know this is a prequel now – not that that suddenly makes this is my Must-See tentpole for next summer. But consider me intrigued.
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Weird news day. Philip Seymour Hoffman is up for Venom (which is funny, because he would make a great Doc Ock....but Venom?) and now this. Does this really solidify it as a prequel? Magneto's backstory has always contained Nazi oppression. It could be homage. So much news that we've heard on this film just contradicts the continuity of the series, so how does it even work as a prequel? That said, I'm guessing it will be neither prequel nor a reboot. They'll take a page from Singer's book and make it some kind of weird, inbetween where its not quite a prequel, but its not quite a reboot. Then again, maybe it is pure prequel. Prequels only became trendy when Star Wars did it, and if George Lucas proved anything with those turds, its that prequels do not really have to take into account the continuity of the original movies at all.