Total Film has three very interesting pieces of cover artwork for a marketing campaign for their upcoming X-Men: First Class piece via Cineweb where they play to the 1960’s time period by producing pieces riffing on popular magazines and using the ad style of the day. Having this come up while watching the first season of Mad Men is certainly amusing since the styles used here is so spot on in so many ways that you really have to appreciate it, even if it is an obvious route that you’ll expect to see from a number of different places as the movie gets closer to it’s June 3rd release. Which cover do you like the best?
Plot summary: X-MEN: FIRST CLASS charts the epic beginning of the X-Men saga, and reveals a secret history of famous global events. Before mutants had revealed themselves to the world, and before Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Not archenemies, they were instead at first the closest of friends, working together with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to prevent nuclear Armageddon. In the process, a grave rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto’s Brotherhood and Professor X’s X-Men.
