Simon Kinberg, the screenwriter working on the sequel to “X-Men: First Class”, was recently stopped on the carpet of “This Means War”’s premiere, and had this to say about his next project:

“I’m going to be writing and producing it, I’m starting now, with Matthew Vaughn directing. “I’m a huge X-Men fan. I grew up loving the comic books and it was really exciting to be able to do the origin story of Xavier and Magneto, and getting those two actors, [James] McAvoy and [Michael] Fassbender, were really amazing, so being able to explore those characters with actors of that quality will be exciting a second time around, and doing some things unexpected with those characters, which is the plan. The first one focused on Magneto a lot, that’s what was so cool about it and that’s what we want to continue. Magneto becomes the villain ultimately of the franchise but he’s a much more complicated character as a young man. He’s someone you sympathize with, you care about you root for even though might not necessarily agree with his methods, you understand his philosophy.”

So apparantly, Michael Fassbender will have a lot of screen-time to shine next time around, which I’m glad for, because he was terrific in the first… umm… ‘First Class’.