Tragically, this turned out not to be the case, and a direct hit killed 34 people. The Las Vegas ‘Atomic’ casino, where Moira MacTaggert gets her lead to the mutants, was built in the USA, but its ‘Hellfire Club’, in which the powerful elite disport themselves with scantily-clad girls, was the Café de Paris, Coventry Street, in London’s West End between Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square.ĭuring the Blitz, when most of the West End closed down, the Café remained open on the assumption that it was bomb-proof. X-Men: First Class location: the 'Hellfire Club, Las Vegas': Cafe De Paris (now closed), Coventry Street, London W1 | Photograph © Cafe De Paris The gardens, though not the house itself, are open for visits.Įnglefield has appeared in Disney's Cruella (with a little CGI as 'Hellman Hall'), Woody Allen’s Match Point, the 2008 Noël Coward adaptation Easy Virtue and, most famously, provided interiors for ‘Buckingham Palace’ in The King’s Speech. The ‘Westchester, New York’ home of young (and wealthy) Charles Xavier, later to become the ‘Xavier Academy’, is Englefield House, Theale, west of Reading in Berkshire. This is where the Nazi concentration camp in ‘Poland’, where young Erik Lenssher first discovers his magnetic powers (and which was in Toronto, Ontario, for the first X-Men film) was recreated.
With Matthew Vaughn taking over the franchise, X-Men: First Class was based at Pinewood Studios in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire and most of the locations can be found in the UK.
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