X-MEN: FIRST CLASS Casting News, Jones Signs On

Deadline Hollywood Daily has reported that 20th Century Fox has rounded out the cast of X-Men: First Class, and the big surprise is that Mad Men star January Jones has been signed to play the role of Emma Frost, the gorgeous mutant with telepathic powers.

Director Matthew Vaughn’s cast:

The Mutants:

• James McAvoy – Xavier
• Michael Fassbender – Erik Lensherr, Magneto
• Nicholas Hoult – Hannk McCoy, Beast
• Jennifer Lawrence – Mystique
• Caleb Landry Jones – Banshee
• January Jones – Emma Frost, The White Queen
•  Zoe Kravitz – Angel Salvadore
• Jason Flemyng – Azazel, the father of Nightcrawler
• Bill Milner – young version of Magneto
• Morgan Lily – Young Raven
• Lucas Till – Havoc
• Edi Gathegi – Darwin

Kevin Bacon is playing the villain, Sebastian Shaw, Rose Byrne will play McAvoy’s love interest Moira MacTaggert, and Oliver Platt is playing The Man in Black.

Film’s Synopsis:

Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were archenemies, they were closest of friends, working together, with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known. In the process, a rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto’s Brotherhood and Professor X’s X-MEN.

Production begins August 23 in London. X-MEN: FIRST CLASS will be in theaters on June 3, 2011.