“X-Men: First Class” begins shooting in London next month so, understandably, there is a great thirst for information on who exactly is in the film and what story it will tell. There have been no new casting revelations – despite fans waiting to hear which actors will play Cyclops, Storm and Jean Grey – but Jennifer Lawrence has spoken a little about her recently-announced role as the young version of Mystique.

Lawrence told the Orlando Sentinel she was “ignorant of the whole fanbase behind these films” and had to devote a day to watching the existing X-Men trilogy. Even after that, she admitted: “I was still a little worried because I didn’t really understand the whole mutant thing.”

The 19-year-old – who revealed she faces 12 hours of prosthetics work to become the scaly, blue-skinned shapeshifter played in older form by Rebecca Romijn – added: “I have to take Mystique back to the beginning, before she became who we saw later. I don’t know exactly what I can talk about, but this is going to be fun.”

Over at The Playlist, they claim a behind-the-scenes source has revealed some details from an early script for the film, prior to its reworking by Jane Goldman. The information – which I should warn is mildly spoilerish – indicates that the younger Magneto (Michael Fassbender) and Xavier (James McAvoy) travel around trying to save mutants from government-led operations and end up founding the school seen in the trilogy.

It adds that there is a love triangle between Eric, Charles and Emma Frost (Alice Eve) and that we see the advancement of Beast’s mutation from a human look to the blue-furred form played by Kelsey Grammer in X-Men: The Last Stand. (Source)

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