Matthew Vaughns X-Men: First Class is één van de snelst gemaakte blockbusters ooit met maar een paar maanden om de film te maken. Vaughn kreeg X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) ooit aangeboden maar weigerde omdat hij te weinig tijd zou hebben. Ironisch genoeg heeft hij First Class nu ook in zeer korte tijd afgerond (de opnames begonnen in september 2010 en ze zijn bijna klaar). Er is momenteel dus wel sprake van enige stress bij de filmmaker.

Dit wordt beaamd door January Jones, de actrice achter het personage Emma Frost, die overigens vol lof is over haar regisseur. Tegenover de Canadese website Jam! zei ze het volgende:

Poor (director) Matthew Vaughn is going to have to edit it in three days… That’s been a blast. We’ve all had so much fun making that movie… I think it was unrealistic for them to think they were going to make such a huge movie in whatever we had — two months or something. So of course we went over (schedule). I think I have a couple more days to shoot… We’re almost done. The fact we’ve had to push the wrap date but they haven’t moved the release date is really interesting to me. I guess they must know what they’re doing. I have a lot of faith in Matthew as a director and an editor; I think his movies are great. And I think they’ve been cutting as we’ve been going. We should be fine.

Vanaf 2 juni 2011 draait X-Men: First Class in de Nederlandse bioscopen. Hieronder nog de trailer van de film.