X-Men: First Class is a prequel about the early days of the X-Men when Professor X and Magneto were actually friends. James McAvoy is Professor X, Michael Fassbender is Magneto, and Jennifer Lawrence is the new Mystique. Kevin Bacon plays the main villain, a guy named Sebastian Shaw, who’s gathering mutants to help him take over the world. The rest of the cast includes Zoe Kravitz, January Jones from Mad Men, and Rose Byrne from Damages.
