An X-Men Movie, '60s Style

Just when you thought they had run out of ideas for comic book movies, here's one that actually might end up being pretty cool. Heads up, Marvel aficionados, the new X-Men movie, X-Men: First Class, will be set in the Sixties. No word yet on how well they might execute the story, but a '60s-era X-Men movie seems ironically to be a whole lot fresher than one set in a futuristic world.

Movieline broke the news, reporting that Professor X and Magneto will "meet and conceive of the X-Men" in the film, that the technological effects will have an "early James Bond" vibe, and that the costumes will be old-school - Mad Men attire instead of vinyl jumpsuits, perhaps? Director Matthew Vaughn and producer Bryan Singer have taken on quite a challenge in setting the X-Men against a backdrop of the JFK presidency and the civil rights movement, but this just may be a comic book movie to break the mold. We can expect X-Men: First Class to hit theaters in the summer of 2011, but that's no reason not to get excited now.

Text Molly O'Brien