The Frost In January

Morning all,

X-Men First Class news. Remember back when it was semi-announced that She’s Out Of My League star Alice Eve would be dawning the white leotard and playing Emma Frost in the new X-Men flick? Well, as with most rumours that was wrong. I bought into it as well so don’t feel so bad if you feel duped. On the flip side, the official news of who will be playing Emma Frost came down the wire a little while ago and in my opinion we’ve all traded up… Significantly.

Madmen enthusiasts will recognize January Jones who has now been slotted to play Emma and the rest of us can sit back and watch everything unfold. January Jones is best known for playing Betty Draper on Madmen where she dawns trendy clothes from back in the day and sometimes sports a giant hairdo. In any case, I think this is an amazing choice as the character of Emma Frost is so much more than just a lusty psychic. Hopefully Matthew Vaughn will take advantage of January’s talent, but more importantly let’s hope the studios don’t drop the script in the toilet again.

To this day we’ve now got confirmation on the following peeps in X-Men First Class:

Michael Fassbender as Magneto/Erik Lehnsherr

James McAvoy as Professor X/Chucky Xavier

Nick Hoult as Hank McCoy/Beast

Kevin Bacon as Sebastien Shaw

Jennifer Lawrence as Raven Darkhome/Mystique

Lucas Till as Alex Summers/Havok

Oliver Platt as some chunky guy

Rose Byrne as Moira MacTaggert

And now January Jones as Emma Frost

Wow – we’ve come a long way from Hugh Jackman, Halle Barry, Anna Paquin, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen.