X-Men: First Class is now a week away from release and (courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter) we have three images which will surely whip up some X-citement, particularly amongst those male fans.

Mad Men’s January Jones is bad guy Sebastian Shaw’s second-in-command, and as you can see from her Bond-esque 60’s bodysuit, fur-shoulder number and her scantily-clad get-up, she doesn’t need to use any of her mutant powers to ensnare the enemy.

Each look has been created by costumer designer Samantha Sheldon, and her all-white, stunning array of costumes can’t help but conjure up the perfect visual representation of her character’s name in the film (Emma Frost).

It’s enough to make Wolverine’s adamantium claws melt.

Peggy Olson is taking a well deserved break from the offices of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce to tread the boards over here in the UK, in the West End stage revival of The Children’s Hour.

Variety is reporting that Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss is joining  Keira Knightley in the story of  an angry female student, who in an attempt to avoid school, she tells her grandmother that the two headmistresses are having a lesbian affair. The accusation proceeds to destroy the women’s careers, relationships and lives.

Moss and Knighley will play the headmistresses, parts which went to both Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine in the 1961 screen adaptation of the play.

Find out more and book your tickets here.

Another addition to the cast of Drive comes in the shapely form of Sterling Cooper’s Office manager – Mad Men actress Christina Hendricks.

Variety has confirmed that she’ll join Albert Brooks (another recent cast member to sign up), Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan in director Nicolas Winding Refn’s action thriller which stars Gosling as a Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver, who has to use all the driving skills and resources he’s learned in his trade when he’s double-crossed on a job.

Hendricks will next be seen in the upcoming comedy Life as We Know It, scheduled for release in the UK on Oct 8th.

Another day, another X-Men: First Class casting announcement!

Deadline brings news that Mad Men’s Betty Draper, the luminous January Jones, has been cast in the role of Emma Frost – a part originally thought to have gone to Alice Eve.

For those unfamiliar with the character, she is a mutant telepath who was initially known as the White Queen. In the comics she changed from one of the X-Men’s most dangerous enemies to one of its most respected members, although this plot strand may differ in the film version

The large ensemble for First Class, including such new and exciting talents as James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne and Jennifer Lawrence, coupled with seasoned, dependable character actors like Kevin Bacon and Oliver Platt, really makes me believe this have the potential to be a truly spectacular project, which could help to (at the very least) banish all memories of The Last Stand.

Is anyone else excited to see this property get a much-needed revamp?

Some more casting news reaching us from Variety.com that the wonderfully named “Mad Men” star January Jones has joined Nicolas Cage in the bizarrely named “The Hungry Rabbit Jumps”.

Being directed by Roger Donaldson, he who directed Cocktail and the Bank job at both ends of his career, and having the current hit and mostly miss Cage on board I’m feeling it’s heading for averageness already but time will tell.

Produced by Tobey Maguire, James Stern and Ram Bergman the film is based on Nicolas cages character who after a crime is committed on his wife he enlists a vigilante group to help him settle the score with devastating consequences as he will owe them a favour in return.

An interesting sounding film that has all the potential for Cage to overplay, but possibly this is the one we’ve all been waiting for from Cage. Fingers crossed.