X-Men First Class is a 2009 American superhero film based on the superhero team from Marvel Comics created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. It is the third film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Directed by Matthew Vaughn and written by Ashley Edward Miller, Zack Stentz, Jane Goldman and Vaughn, the film stars Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Tye Sheridan, Sophie Turner, Nicholas Hoult, Ben Hardy, Alexandra Shipp, Rebecca Romijn, Vinnie Jones, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Liev Schreiber, Ray Park, Rose Byrne and Bruce Davison. The film depicts a world where an unknown proportion of people are mutants, possessing superhuman powers that make them distrusted by normal humans. It focuses on the mutants Cyclops and Jean Grey as they are brought into a conflict between two groups with radically different approaches to bringing about the acceptance of mutant-kind: Charles Xavier's X-Men, and the Brotherhood of Mutants led by Magneto.
