There seems to be some kind of communication problem between X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn and 20th Century Fox. Vaughn is claiming that this promo image was not approved to be released, yet we know for a fact that 20th Century Fox distributed the image officially to Yahoo!, MSN, Moviefone and IGN to post along with early interviews with the cast. Vaughn told /Film the following:
"I freaked out on them yesterday. I don't know where the hell that came from. I don't think it's a Fox image. It's not a pre-approved image. When I found out, I said, what the f*ck is this sh*t, and Fox is running around trying to figure out what happened as well. I agree. It's like a bad photoshop, which maybe it was by someone. It didn't reflect the movie. I was shocked when I saw it. I was like 'Jesus Christ'...
Sure, Vaughn may have not approved it, but we can assure you 100% that the image came from Fox. You can read more comments from Vaughn here, where you'll also find these two new photos of Michael Fassbender as Magneto and James McAvoy as Charles Xavier.