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Dave Elsey Looks Back At Creating Beast And Comments On X-MEN: FIRST CLASS Sequel

Dave Elsey Looks Back At Creating Beast And Comments On X-MEN: FIRST CLASS Sequel

Following his win at the Saturn Awards for his work on X-Men: First Class, Make-Up Supervisor Dave Elsey looks back at creating Beast, and shares his thoughts on the sequel, teasing what he has heared about, "some possible characters that might be coming on board."

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By Josh Wilding - 7/29/2012
Talking to Collider at the Saturn Awards last week, Make-Up Supervisor Dave Elsey has shared his thoughts on the challenges of creating Beast for 2011's X-Men: First Class and his hopes to return to the universe created by Matthew Vaughn for the 2014 sequel (rumoured to be titled X-Men: Days of Future Past). Little is known about the film at this point, and even the rumour mill has been pretty dead. However, with shooting set to begin next January, it shouldn't be too long until we start hearing some casting news and plot details. To hear more from Elsey on his other projects (including David Hayter's Wolves), be sure to click on the link at the bottom of the page. Which mutants are you hoping will appear in the sequel? sound off with your thoughts below.



"The biggest challenge on X-Men [First Class] was that I was actually brought in quite late. In fact, all of the other characters had been designed and signed off long before I was there. They were filming by the time I came on board and all I knew was that we had to do make-up on Nick Hoult. I remembered Nick from About A Boy and thought he was a kid, so I was surprised to find that there was a 6'3 guy that we had to stick the make-up onto. There wasn't much time, and luckily Nick was a great person to work with and we got through a lot of blue hair and a lot of blue paint. At the end of it, we were all firm friends, and I'm hoping that when the new X-Men movie starts in January of next year, that we'll all be reunited again."

"Nick and I have kept in touch actually, and we've heard a few things. We've heard rumours obviously, and we've heard some possible characters that might be coming on board that we're not allowed to tell you about! But it looks like it's going to be an amazing, amazing movie. I actually really liked the first movie - I don't like every movie I work on - but I really did like X-Men: First Class; I thought it was great. It was like a Bond movie and an X-Men movie slammed together. Two movies that I would like to work on in one movie! It was great and I'd love to go back to that world again."
Source: Collider
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DioFoRio - 7/29/2012, 3:38 PM
hmmmmmmm wolves
emeraldtaurus - 7/29/2012, 3:39 PM
thought first class was a little over-rated, have a good feeling bout the sequel. Loved when it went all "sci-fi time travel" in the cartoon back in the 90's , hope they go that route
Spidey31 - 7/29/2012, 3:42 PM
Great movie
hope420 - 7/29/2012, 3:47 PM
If its based on Days Of Future Past then hopefully we are in for some awesome mutant vs sentinel action!
Ghostt - 7/29/2012, 3:47 PM
people liked the way Beast looked? I cringed when I saw him. And where were Beasts trademark quips and quotes?
YOUNGBL00D - 7/29/2012, 3:50 PM
I thought beast looked great while he was flying the jet but moments when he was walking around with everyone looked really wield like you knew it was just a man in a furry suit
GiftedYoungster - 7/29/2012, 3:52 PM
Oh so you're to blame for him looking like shit. Cool.
StormLoganSummers - 7/29/2012, 3:52 PM
Kelsey Grammer's Beast > Nick Hoult's Beast
THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - 7/29/2012, 3:54 PM
his transformation was awesome but the end result looked pretty bad lol.
MiVigilante - 7/29/2012, 3:55 PM
loved FC, hope they play out the future past story right though
SUPERMAN2013 - 7/29/2012, 3:57 PM
I dont mind beast,but I would prefer if he was more ape like,like with an arched back,short legs and big beasty arms and abit more of a snout,he only really looks good on this film where he roared on the jet,he looked like shit when first seeing him
DrRockso - 7/29/2012, 3:57 PM
@StormLogan agreed, although I kept waiting for Kelsey to say "oh Niles"
StormLoganSummers - 7/29/2012, 3:58 PM
@Ghostt The only thing I can remember is that he used the phrase "it behooves me..." when he was talking to Mystique about his cure.
BooYah - 7/29/2012, 4:07 PM
@Ghostt- The way I see it, it'd be a little weird to see a teenager using Beast's quips. Maybe when he becomes older and wiser. So basically maybe as the movies progress he'll start using them. I hope he does at least.
BigDamnHero - 7/29/2012, 4:20 PM
I seem to be in the minority that really dug Beast's look in First Class. But I agree with @SUPERMAN2013. I hope he evolves to become more ape like in the sequels. And I understand why he didn't have the quips he does in the comics. He'd literally just turned into a giant, blue cat-man. If that happened to me I wouldn't really be joking around!
OrganizedChaos - 7/29/2012, 4:22 PM
@BigDamnHero count me in with you. I do like how he looks in First Class. Grammer's look is better in my opinion, but I do like the look in First Class
Carloshll726 - 7/29/2012, 4:25 PM
I would like to see the mutant Sunfire in a sequel.
TheActionAce - 7/29/2012, 4:33 PM
I swear Beast looked more like a stuffed blue cat, instead a really cool bad ass/science nerd/ape/blue cat that he is
TheActionAce - 7/29/2012, 4:34 PM
Hey I liked the film and was supporting it from the start but the end result for Beast was shit
quadrapioneer - 7/29/2012, 4:38 PM
bretlfc - 7/29/2012, 4:49 PM
Didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would, overrated in my opinion.
JoeMomma29 - 7/29/2012, 4:49 PM
The movie was great, enjoyed it alot. That being said I did not like the line up of characters. I wished they would have stuck the original first class from the comics and built from there.

Yeah I understand they wanted new characters from the X-Men universe. Anyways I do look forward to the sequel.
Screwger - 7/29/2012, 4:52 PM
Anyone remember that David Hayter was in Guyver 2 , another CBM?!
Thelastdalek - 7/29/2012, 5:16 PM
@Ghostt

Never mind that shit here comes monga
hope420 - 7/29/2012, 5:20 PM
The best Beast was the 90's X-men cartoon. They nailed the look, the attitude and the perfect voice. They need to use that Beast for reference in future live action movies.
GUNSMITH - 7/29/2012, 5:27 PM
I BELIEVE HIS WEREWOLF FLICK IS CALLED "SLAUGHTER'S ROAD"
marvel72 - 7/29/2012, 6:02 PM
i was glad that one of the original team made it into the x-men line up,but when i saw the big reveal i did crack up,it was so funny.
UncleJimmy - 7/29/2012, 6:15 PM
kelsey grammer looked like a goblin.
first class's beast was awesome to look at, they needed better voice dubbing and better action scenes/vfx for him though.
I did enjoy kelseys characterization much more though..
SamHell - 7/29/2012, 6:25 PM
bring on Iceman and Cyclops
Bodwulf - 7/29/2012, 6:31 PM
It should be called the Fantastic X-men Four!
True mutants!, The ultimate X-men Team
mattattack - 7/29/2012, 6:50 PM
I LOVE First Class but one of my main complaints is how stupid Beast looked.
ThaReaperAssassin - 7/29/2012, 6:59 PM
Magneto hands down best part of FC. second was wolverine. there is no 3rd. but I do like the movie though.
Oxbow - 7/29/2012, 7:19 PM
beast didn't look good in FC. It might be as he says, that they just threw him on the set in the middle of the shoot and that was the best he could come up with...
TheTruther - 7/29/2012, 7:23 PM
X-men First class was epic and enjoyable..... the sequel will be awesome.
bababoozer - 7/29/2012, 7:38 PM
Horrible make-up. Stay away.
JerBear - 7/29/2012, 7:46 PM
LOL, I cringed like I've never cringed before when I saw Beast for the first time
2gold - 7/29/2012, 8:17 PM
I hated Beast so much in this movie. I just was hoping Mystique would go dark and snap his neck like a twig. Then make his corpse into a furr real friend cat.
Bane2099 - 7/29/2012, 8:25 PM
The Sentinels have to make an appearance if they are relating the title for the sequel to DOFP, or they pull a time travel effect and show scenes of the team in a dystpion future and have the Sentinels then...all in all i want SENTINELS :]
Ghostt - 7/29/2012, 8:38 PM
@ booyah methinks you are correct!

@thelastdalek....I'm not sure what that means, and I feel less hip all of the sudden.
Luminus - 7/29/2012, 9:02 PM
The problem with Beast was that he was wearing a jacket. He should've been bare top, like in the comics and cartoon. That's why he looked weird.
SinAllnite - 7/29/2012, 9:23 PM
bring back Beacon
WesleyGibson - 7/29/2012, 10:19 PM
Apocalypse(my fav X-villain) better crop up in one of these X-films because they have done five of them so far and they can't even include the best villain that the X-men have ever faced...instead we get Magneto(X-Men), some idiot named William Stryker(X2: X-Men United), Magneto(AGAIN!) with a crappy interpretation of The Phoenix(X-Men: The Last Stand), William Stryker(AGAIN!!) and his minions(X-Men Origins: Wolverine), and Sebastian Shaw(a villain that no one really cared about) and his Brotherhood of Evil knock-off(X-Men: First Class).

I'm getting pretty sick and tired of boring and re-hashed villains regardless of Kevin Bacon's actually good performance as Shaw. If there are anymore X-Men films, Apocalypse better show up or I will lose my faith in these films.
Ryguy88 - 7/29/2012, 11:11 PM
X-Men: Days of Futures Past. I hope this turns out to be true!
Ryguy88 - 7/29/2012, 11:14 PM
Prot3er, I don't think they should worry about cramming that subplot into the movie, who wants to watch a movie about that anyways.

It'll probably be Magneto and his cronies assassinate the president putting into motion the sentinel program that devastates the future sending Bishop or Cable back in time to alter things.
thetrojan - 7/29/2012, 11:27 PM
the beast make up was the only part of this movie that i found embarassing!
it was a clever movie all the way through until the furry freak brother made his appearance!




oh I tell a lie...Banshee was shite also...
other than that I cant wait for the next instalment.
pepe - 7/29/2012, 11:28 PM
Hope they make a cool costume for Magneto with the cool helmet...
DDD - 7/29/2012, 11:46 PM
Man, I was hoping this movie wouldn't be made!

Does anybody else but me see this is totally
out of sync with the X-MEN movies?

I wish FUX, I mean FOX, would go back to their first
X-MEN movies, well 1 & 2, for some sane continuity!
I've lost track! I can't keep up!
My head hurts!
lol
(It would be funny if it didn't hurt so much!)

I sure wish DISNEY would buy this property back,
PRONTO!
Batman27 - 7/30/2012, 2:32 AM
Im sure its going to be great.
One2ephu - 7/30/2012, 4:38 AM
I think the yellow in beast's eyes and teeth really didn't help the concept.
Nubase - 7/30/2012, 5:33 AM
they will work on the beast proper this time, as we know now they did not have much time.

As long as the story is tight, the sequel should be a hit
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