Sexy Beast. Or Maybe Blue Balls: Bryan Singer Reveals Beast’s Look in Days of Future Past

While we have been talking about the rapidly ramping up hype around this summer’s geek and genre movies, the cool thing about living in this part of the 21st Century is that no one is waiting to see how the comic book flicks do this year before they make more: we’ve already got at least four of them in the pipe for next year.

As we speak, Marvel Studios has Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Thor: The Dark World and Guardians of The Galaxy being whipped together, but let’s not forget the Grand Old Man of modern superhero movies: the new X-Men, Days of Future Past, directed by Bryan Singer, the dude who put together the first two X-Men flicks (and I guarantee you that he thanks God for that fact every day, since there ain’t no one wandering around referring to Singer’s accolades as the director of Superman Returns, or Valkyrie).

And even though Singer is relatively early into production on Days of Future Past, he’s done a good job using Twitter to keep the rabid fans on the edges of their seats. Not too long ago, he Tweeted pictures of a bunch of the actors attached to the movie, but now he’s moved to showing off some early makeup effects. Specifically that of Nicholas Hoult in his Beast makeup. Which you can check out after the jump.

Now granted – it’s not a full face shot, and the entire effect might dissolve into shit the minute the poor prick starts, you know, talking. But from a short distance in a still picture, that looks like a reasonable facsimile of the classic blue Beast look from the 70 and 80s, before Grant Morrison decided to turn him into a giant pussy (a cat, you filthy-minded animals) in New X-Men in the early 2000s.

So this is cool: not only do X-Men fans get an idea of what they’re in for visually in the movie, but porn parody director Axel Braun knows that, if he wants his XXX-Men: Days of Future Ass Blast to be ready on zero-day, he needs to start testing methods for airbrushing Ron Jeremy’s junk blue, like, right fucking now.

(via The Mary Sue)