Based during the tense era of the Cuban Missile Crisis, director Matthew Vaughn tells a superhero origin story woven into an alternate history. First Class explores the early stages of the relationships amongst the iconic team of mutants, and the events that lead to their detrimental severance.

Producer Bryan Singer recruited Prologue for the job of delivering a main and end title sequence for First Class. Vaughn stressed simplicity in regards to the main-on-end title sequence. The film takes place primarily in the 1960’s and Vaughn’s vision was to have an authentic sequence that matched the period of story.

Drawing inspiration from world-renowned designers Maurice Binder and Saul Bass, the talented team at Prologue created a poetic dance of several kinds of DNA models from the 60’s. In the X-Men universe, mutations in the X chromosome result in ordinary people possessing extraordinary abilities. We explored these rare and potentially precarious metamorphoses in the sequence, allowing this reboot and its title sequence to stand in a class of its own.