X-Men: First Class (stylized on-screen as X: First Class) is a 2011 superhero film based on the [[X-Men]] characters appearing in Marvel Comics. It is the fourth mainline installment in the [[X-Men film series]] and the fifth installment overall. It was directed by Matthew Vaughn and produced by Bryan Singer, and stars James McAvoy, [[Michael Fassbender]], Rose Byrne, Jennifer Lawrence, January Jones, Oliver Platt, and Kevin Bacon. At the time of its release, it was intended to be a franchise reboot and contradicted the events of previous films; however, the follow-up film [[X-Men: Days of Future Past]] (2014) retconned First Class into a prequel to [[X-Men (2000)]]. First Class is set primarily in 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and focuses on the relationship between [[Charles Xavier]] and Erik Lehnsherr / [[Magneto]], and the origin of their groups—the X-Men and the Brotherhood of Mutants, respectively, as they deal with the Hellfire Club led by Sebastian Shaw, a mutant supremacist bent on enacting nuclear war.
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