See The X-Men Logo Painted On To The Skies Of Los Angeles

With more and more reviews pouring in for X-Men: First Class (including one from our own Katey Rich), excitement is at an all time high. The Matthew Vaughn-directed film currently has 20 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and has a 100% rating. Of course someone is eventually going to bring that number down, but for now comic book fans are pumped for the first quality X-Men movie since X2 in 2003. So what better way to celebrate the proximity to the film's release (it comes out this Friday) than by doing some skywriting?

Bleeding Cool has discovered that 20th Century Fox has hired pilots to fly around the city of Los Angeles to draw the X-Men symbol in the sky. According to the story, there are no less than eight drawings in the clouds. I'm not entirely sure what skywriting has to do with X-Men: First Class - I'm not seeing the film until tomorrow evening - but it's a pretty cool marketing stunt nonetheless.

Check out a video of the skywriter as well as some images below and head over to Bleeding Cool for more.

Eric Eisenberg
Assistant Managing Editor

Eric Eisenberg is the Assistant Managing Editor at CinemaBlend. After graduating Boston University and earning a bachelor’s degree in journalism, he took a part-time job as a staff writer for CinemaBlend, and after six months was offered the opportunity to move to Los Angeles and take on a newly created West Coast Editor position. Over a decade later, he's continuing to advance his interests and expertise. In addition to conducting filmmaker interviews and contributing to the news and feature content of the site, Eric also oversees the Movie Reviews section, writes the the weekend box office report (published Sundays), and is the site's resident Stephen King expert. He has two King-related columns.