Just like they promised, Fox has released the first trailer for X-Men: First Class via their Facebook page.  If a legit talent like Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass, Layer Cake) weren’t directing this, the idea of an X-Men Babies prequel (cast rundown here) would sound pretty stupid.  Likewise, the trailer is an almost equal mix of maybe this was a bad idea and maybe this will still be awesome (ahh, the old sex-with-a-stranger feeling).

As Durden astutely points out, this thing seems way behind schedule, considering it’s supposed to come out in June and they’re still shooting.  And now that we have a trailer, it looks cobbled together from the bare minimum amount of footage. Seriously, is anyone out there excited by the “BEFORE HE WAS MAGNETO… HE WAS ERIC” opening?   We get it, it’s a prequel.  You might not want to push that angle so hard, considering the most famous movie prequel is still Star Wars.  “BEFORE HE WAS DARTH VADER… HE WAS AN ANNOYING LITTLE KID.”   Huh… well I guess I can see why you skipped that part of the story the first time around…

But then all of a sudden Kevin Bacon shows up, and Magneto starts pulling submarines out of the water and you’re like, “Hmm, well okay, perhaps this might be cool.” Though I still say Michael Fassbender should’ve played a new mutant, Michael F. Assbender. His powers would be self-explanatory.

"Quiet, I'm ass bending."

Also be sure to check out Pauly’s upcoming Latin-flavored gay porn parody, Mex Men: First Ass.

It’s Tuesday, so it must be time for another installment of FilmDrunk’s favorite game – Will Gemma Arterton’s Butt Be In An Alien Prequel Or Won’t It? Oh, we’ve never played that game? That’s because Vince always wants to play Tune In Tokyo. But today we shall play, because sources are reporting that Gemma is in talks to star in Ridley Scott’s Alien prequels. That’s right, plural on the prequel nod, which means we’re in for a slew of new acid-spewing space monsters, which is also Lamar Odom’s pet name for Khloe Kardashian.

According to Hollywood.com:

The actress told the British paper The Sunday Times that she was in discussions with Ridley Scott about starring in the upcoming prequels to his successful 1979 film, Alien. Supposedly, Scott was so impressed with Arterton’s talent after seeing her in The Disappearance of Alice Creed that he wanted to meet her in person to talk about the main female role. And that’s not too surprising, considering Arterton’s character spent the majority of Alice Creed nude and getting physically abused.

*adds The Disappearance of Alice Creed to Netflix 14 times*

And if there’s one thing we know as certain in this life, it’s that we can take actors and actresses at their words. So if Gemma says she’s in talks to star in the Alien prequels, then I assume that we can trust her… or can we? LIES! ALL LIES AFTER THE JUMP!

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We’ve already heard about Clash of the Titans and Harry Potter, you can now add Warner Bros’ Green Lantern and Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch to the list of movies hurriedly converted to 3D.  Said studio execs, “Could you also make the Green Lantern a giant blue kitty?  Audiences really seem to respond to that.”  Meanwhile, /Film hears from Ridley Scott’s art director that his Alien prequel will also shoot in 3D.

And why not?  The only person who loves 3D more than Hollywood execs is your mom’s orifices.  3D may not make sense in every case, or even most cases, but it allows them to charge you five bucks more for a ticket, and that’s all they care about.  Money money money.  I’m not even exaggerating; Harvey Weinstein would cut a kitten’s belly open if he thought there was a nickel in it.  True story, I’ve seen him do it.  Afterwards, they fed it to George Lucas.

Well this is big news.  It’s been rumored for a while that Fox wanted to do an Alien remake with Ridley Scott producing.  But today Variety reports that the plan is actually for a prequel, and Ridley Scott will direct.  To put that in perspective, it’s basically like if Robert Plant agreed to sing for a Led Zeppelin cover band.  Somehow Ridley Scott went from being the guy who turned down both Alien sequels to the guy who’ll make prequels, movies about Monopoly – whatever studio execs want. (*whispers*) I think he might be a replicant.

The film will be a direct prequel to Scott’s original 1979 film. This leads me to believe that the film will tell the story of the crew of the empty ship that is discovered in the first film. In a 2002 interview, Scott wanted to return “to where the alien creatures were first found and explain how they were created.” [/Film]

You know what are super cool?  Sharks.  You know what’s not that interesting?  The story of how sharks were created.  Jesus made the aliens, just like he designed Kirk Cameron’s banana and was the original sharkitecht behind shark week.  Origin stories are stupid.