X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

[Jedi Master Carr]

I think this is awesome
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=93192

By far the best storyline of the X-men and it will make a great movie. I imagine Hugh Jackman, Ian Mckellan, Patrick Stewart, and others will be back in the beginning. It could be a good way to make it a reboot (ala Star Trek).

[Lilaena De'Ville]

That sounds really cool. :D

[Darth Turbogeek]

I'm seriously confused here - is this a prequel sequel or a sequel prequel? Or a sequel of the prequel that is a sequel of the originals?

[Captain Untouchable]

If I understand correctly, Days of Future Past features a mutant (Kitty Pryde) from an alternate dystopian future transferring her mind into her younger self, so that she can take the X-Men to thwart an assassination attempt on a US Senator (Robert Kelly). The story alternates between the future and the present; presumably the "present" would feature the X-Men: First Class cast, while the future would have members of the X1-X3 cast.

I guess that's like Star Trek in the sense that it features an alternate timeline... but Star Trek was a total reboot for the franchise, that undid absolutely everything. Based on the interview where this news comes from, they're actually trying to affirm and reinforce the connection between First Class and the other movies, presumably by featuring some of the same cast. By the end of the movie, the timeline that leads to X-Men / X2 / Last Stand will be back on track.

It will be interesting to see how much of the story they're able to make use of, and how much of it will have to change. Also, I'm intrigued to find out when the "present" will be. If they keep the comics' date of 1981 it will be after the events of X-Men Origins and would thus feature the kids from that... but it'd be nearly twenty years after First Class, and I'm not sure some of the younger actors could pull off being aged that much.

[Park Kraken]

Sounds like there could finally be legit Sentinels in this movie, and not just some fake rip-off kind from a Danger Room sequence. I hope they're patterned from the Sentinels in the X-men: Evolution TV series.

[Alexia Sturkov]

From it's entry on Wikipedia:


X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Fox envisions X-Men: First Class as the first film of a new trilogy.[29] Lauren Shuler-Donner compared the franchise plans to be similar to the darker, more mature content of the Harry Potter film series.[41] Matthew Vaughn and Bryan Singer will return to direct and produce the sequel, respectively.[42] While speaking about the sequels, director Vaughn said, "First Class is similar to Batman Begins, where you have the fun of introducing the characters and getting to know them, but that takes time. But with the second one, you can just get on with it and have a rollicking good time. That’s the main difference between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight."[43]
In a new chat about the film, Vaughn threw around a few ideas regarding a possible sequel to the prequel. On how First Class 2 could open, Vaughn said: “I thought it would be fun to open with the Kennedy Assassination, and we reveal that the magic bullet was controlled by Magneto.” Continuing that a First Class 2 would not necessarily follow the traditional comic-book sequel route of adding more characters to its roster, Vaughn added: “We will only have one more new character. I won’t say who he… I won’t say who he or she is! But we will only be bringing one more new character in, because, I think, as Professor X is in a wheelchair, Magneto needs to have a nemesis he can fight with. Someone that will be his equal. I know who it is. It would be nice if I could say something, but I can’t, mate!”[44] Vaughn has speculated that a sequel could be set in "in the latter part of the 1960s where you’ve got The Stones, The Beatles, Flower Power."[45] Actor James McAvoy said he has a contract for three movies,[46] and expressed interest in seeing Charles Xavier get “really messed up” in the sequel and speculated that a third film could show his transition into a character closer to the one played by Patrick Stewart in the original trilogy.[45] Michael Fassbender has said that he is "very excited" about the possibility of a sequel.[47] He has said: "We worked very hard. It was a very trying time. Thank God, James is a good guy a very smart guy and he's a very practical guy. Matthew's great because he makes films as a fan. There's something like a nine-year-old boy in him when he's making a film. He's very much into characters and allowing the characters to drive the plot and the plot to drive the action film, as opposed to action driving the film and threading in some sort of a plot. It was a very rewarding experience, so hopefully we'll get the same team back again."[48] Producer Lauren Shuler Donner has said that the sequel may be set in the 1970s.[49] Writer and executive producer Bryan Singer has stated that it could be set around the Civil rights movement or the Vietnam War,[50] and that Wolverine could once again be featured.[51] Hugh Jackman has said that he would like to return.[52] Simon Kinberg who co-wrote X-Men: The Last Stand and co-produced X-Men: First Class will write the sequel.[53]
Actress Jennifer Lawrence has expressed interest in reprising her role as Mystique in a sequel.[54] Rose Byrne and Álex González revealed that they had signed on for one or two more films in the X-Men franchise.[55][56] January Jones has said that she would love to do another film.[57] Lucas Till has said that he would like to reprise the role of Havok.[58] Jason Flemyng has expressed interest in exploring the origins of Nightcrawler.[59] McAvoy added he wants to portray the psychological transformations Xavier suffers: "He can't just become the guy that we saw in the first three movies. He just had two major things happen to him. He's lost his best friend, essentially, and he's just been paralyzed from the waist down. Which is just a huge, huge blow to his considerable ego. So he's got to deal with that."[60]
It has been confirmed that the sequel will go into production in January 2013, when Jennifer Lawrence has finished shooting the film adaptation of Catching Fire, the sequel to The Hunger Games.[61] The sequel is scheduled for a release on July 18, 2014.[62]

As such it would appear that this would be focused around the younger mutants again with Magneto as the potential villain and only a single new character added. I am terribly excited. First Class is one of my favorite Comic Book movies.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Looks like we're getting a change of director: http://nerdreactor.com/2012/10/25/matthew-vaughn-is-not-directing-x-men-days-of-future-past-after-all-bryan-singer-set-to-replace-vaughn/

[Droo]

So, it looks like it's official. Bryan Singer will be directing Days of Future Past. :)

http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/173425-bryan-singer-officially-set-for-x-men-days-of-future-past

[Jedi Master Carr]

I am actually glad. I have always wanted to see Singer direct another X-Men movie.

[Jedi Master Carr]

Stewart and Mckellan will be reprising their roles as Xavier and Magneto. I think that is very cool and glad to see them back. It will be great to see them play those characters again.

http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/173787-patrick-stewart-and-ian-mckellen-join-x-men-days-of-future-past

[Lance Casey]

Hugh Jackman in negotiations to return as well. Can't wait for this movie, going to make up for the crap that was x3.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Can they bring Cyclops back? :cry

[Captain Untouchable]

James Marsden is actually rumoured to be one of the potential choices for the lead in Guardians of the Galaxy. They'll probably end up going with someone lesser known instead, but still.

We can hope. :ohno

[Jedi Master Carr]

Can they bring Cyclops back? :cry

They could since they are probably going to be ignoring Last Stand for the most part.

[Dragon]

I thought the main storyline would involve the younger versions of Xavier and Magneto? I really loved McAvoy and Fassbender's interpretations of those characters, and I'd be disappointed if they were cast aside for Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan.

Honestly, one reason I don't rate any of the first three X-Men movies very highly is that Stewart's Xavier is unrelatable, static, and ineffective. It's really more the writers' fault than his, but Xavier's only purpose in those movies was to deliver exposition and be incapacitated/captured/killed. McAvoy's Xavier, on the other hand, was one of the driving forces of First Class because of his ambition, idealism, and compassion, and it made him a captivating character. Even if the primary focus is going to shift to other mutants, I'd much rather see more of that character than more Patrick Stewart as directed by George Lucas.

[Captain Untouchable]

I'm not sure you're making a fair comparison there. James McAvoy played a character who was forty years younger; responsible for a handful of teens rather than dozens; not yet betrayed by Magneto and Mystique; and most importantly not stuck in a wheelchair. Direction or no direction, to all intents and purposes they're not even playing the same character yet: it's not a like-for-like comparison.

What having Patrick Stewart around will allow them to do is begin to show how McAvoy begins to become that. Stewart will merely be there to demonstrate what the end result will be: it's going to fall to McAvoy to sell that transition. I don't think there's any reason to assume that anyone will be getting sidelined because of Stewart and McKellan being there: rather, it's going to force McAvoy and Fassbender to up their game, and means we'll likely see more of their take on the character, not less.

Also, bear in mind that Stewart will be appearing in a post-apocalyptic future where mutants are being hunted by Sentinels. I think it's unlikely that he'll be spending much of his time sitting around teaching physics.

[Dragon]

Certainly the characters should be different; my criticism is that the Xavier of the first three movies barely had a character at all. I'd be perfectly happy to see a Xavier who is suspicious of the government, who has had his goodwill betrayed time and time again by humans and mutants alike, but still believes strongly enough in his principles to lead the X-Men on a crusade for equality. The MLK to Magneto's Malcolm X. Patrick Stewart would be brilliant in that sort of role.

I feel the first three X-Men movies failed to create a compelling image of the human-mutant conflict, and because of that Xavier's motivations were unclear. They didn't invest much time developing his character; they shot for making him mysterious and only succeeded in making him opaque. And the only role he ever serves in the plot is to be an obstacle the enemies remove. It's just a bit shocking to me that a Patrick Stewart character could be so boring.

Anyway, that's my criticism of the old movies, and it's primarily a screenwriting problem. First Class was a huge leap forward in that department - the plot was driven by the characters and not the other way around. If they can hit the same notes in Days of Future Past, I'll be very excited for the new movie.

[Captain Untouchable]

Xavier certainly could have been that, but personally I don't think there was anything wrong at all. I felt that the mystery very much was there: it was just conveyed by the nuances and subtleties of Stewart's performance, rather than the director and screenwriters having to beat us round the face with it, as so often happens in American movies.

To each his own though, I guess. That's the fun of opinions.

[Dragon]

Yep, I know I'm generally the odd man out in terms of the first three X-Men movies... oddly enough, that meant that Last Stand bothered me less than it bothered a lot of other people, because my expectations were lower. ;)

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Back to Cyclops, since he died off camera and there was no body, there's no need for the filmmakers to keep saying he died. He could be alive with just a tiny story tweak.

One can hope, anyway.

[Dragon]

Back to Cyclops, since he died off camera and there was no body, there's no need for the filmmakers to keep saying he died. He could be alive with just a tiny story tweak.

One can hope, anyway.

Apparently the movie's playing with alternate timelines, so I don't think they'd need even that level of convolution to get Cyclops back. But if the main story is picking up shortly after First Class, he probably wouldn't have been born yet.

[Ceto Rübezahl]

If the film-makers are feeling particularly bastardly, they could have it so that the alternate Sentinel future includes Cyclops and Jean Grey. That way, by thwarting Magneto's plan and averting that evil future... they save the world, but they allow the events that cause Cyclops and Jean's deaths to transpire.

That's totally what I'd do. But I'd probably do it with an evil smirk on my face.

[Dragon]

Sentinel Apocalypse or a world where The Last Stand happens? Come on, man, that's not even a choice. :p

[Dasquian Belargic]

"8 ways X-Men movie continuity is irretrievably fucked (http://io9.com/5966264/8-ways-x+men-movie-continuity-is-irretrievably-fucked)" :lol

[Dragon]

An excellent excuse to create a brand-new timeline with time travel shenanigans! ;)

[Captain Untouchable]

Maybe it's just me, but I've been finding io9 really ranty lately. It seems like everyone at the office was forced to give up caffeine at the same time or something. :uhoh

As for the "irrevocable" continuity damage... one or two of them are valid points, but some of them can be explained away relatively easily, and none of them are any worse than the continuity errors in a bunch of other franchises. :\

[Atreyu]

It's now official - Hugh Jackman will be in it (https://twitter.com/BryanSinger/statuses/281256660025081857)

:eee

[Jedi Master Carr]

More casting news
http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/174667-anna-paquin-ellen-page-and-shawn-ashmore-returning-for-x-men-days-of-future-past

So, Rogue, Kitty, and Iceman will be back. It looks like Shadowcat will play a major role in the film and will be the time traveler. To me Ellen Page was one of the positive things about Last Stand. She did a great job as Kitty Pryde.

[Jedi Master Carr]

Peter Dinklage joins the cast in an specified role.
http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/175041-peter-dinklage-joins-x-men-days-of-future-past

Great news he is a great actor, but I wonder who he will be playing.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Apparently he is playing a (the?) villain

http://www.newsarama.com/film/peter-dinklage-x-men-days-of-future-past.html

[Captain Untouchable]

That's... really surprising.

I'm not surprised that Mr Dinklage is playing a villain per se... but I am surprised that they need another one. I was under the impression that the pain plot of the story was going to be stopping Magneto from killing the Senator, with scenes in the future there to emphasise just how dire things will get if the X-Men fail... but it's starting to sound like the future timeline might be a more meaty part of the story after all.

I wonder if it's going to end up like Wolverine and the X-Men: in that, the X-Men of the future researched the historical events that made the world go to shit, and then the X-Men in the past set out to stop it.

Having re-watched X-Men: First Class earlier this week, I'm really hoping that we're going to get some Rebecca Romijn casting news. The relationship between grown-up Xavier and Mystique would be really interesting, I think.

[Genesis]

I love Peter Dinklage and I love that he is going to be in an xmen movie. :swoon:

Darn it I forgot to switch accounts

[Jedi Master Carr]

Maybe he will play Bolivar Trask. I guess he could end up being the voice of Mastermold or Nimrod.

[Dasquian Belargic]

http://www.themarysue.com/days-of-future-past-bolivar-trask-3d/

Bolivar Trask is seeming like a strong possibility

[Jedi Master Carr]

I could see Trask not sure if he will be in the 70s part of the film or in the future.

[Dasquian Belargic]

More hints about who he might be playing: http://www.themarysue.com/singer-dinklage-cgi/

[Droo]

Taken from an interview (http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/02/22/x-men-days-of-future-past-director-bryan-singer-says-he-will-be-repairing-things-that-went-wrong-in-the-brett-ratner-directed-x-men-last-stand) at IGN:

IGN: One thing that’s interesting about the alternate universe/timeline in Days of Future Past is that it could potentially give you the opportunity to revisit things that happened in the third film in terms of characters and endings that you might like to see changed

Bryan Singer: You mean, what you’re politely saying is, “fix s**t.” Is that what you’re saying? That’s what I’m hearing. [Laughing]

IGN: [Laughing] Maybe…

Singer: There’s going to be a little of that, a few things I can repair.

IGN: Are fans going to be pleased with these things you will be repairing?

Singer: I think so, I think so, yes.
Haha, good old Bryan Singer. This is what I've been wanting to hear for a few years now!

[Jedi Master Carr]

Halle Berry is returning as well.
http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/175331-halle-berry-suits-up-for-x-men-days-of-future-past

Also, french actor Omar Sy is playing an unspecified role. I don't want to jump to conclusions because he is black, but I wonder if he could be Bishop. Of course he might just be another mutant who will be a member of the brotherhood or Xavier's team in 1973.

[Alex Kaine]

Unless we're talking cameos here, I think it's going to be a real challenge to tell a coherent story with this many major characters... especially figuring in 70s and 2000s versions of several of them. I'd have been happy simply continuing with the story of the new cast myself, so I'm admittedly a little concerned that Singer's less subtle, less relateable versions of the characters will take over.

[Droo]

The thing we ought to remember here is that it's the First Class writing team behind this, and I'm almost certain I remember someone at some point stating that this was still their story (the First Class team), but it's just a bigger story that incorporates Singer's original team. I hope this is the case, because, as talented as Bryan Singer is for balancing the character development of a large ensemble cast, I think this would be asking too much. So hopefully, the emphasis is indeed on the First Class characters, with smaller supporting roles from the rest.

[Captain Untouchable]

I think it's worth bearing in mind why they "need" the elder cast back. A lot of exposition needs to happen in order for the movie to make sense. You need to explain how and why the Sentinels were created. You need to explain that they began attacking Mutants, but then turned on the whole of humanity. You need to explain that the X-Men were hunted to near-extinction, and that only a handful of them are left.

By getting back all the old cast, you're filling those scenes with instantly recognisable faces. You don't need to explain that the Sentinels came after mutants: you just need a scene in the mansion, full of those familiar elder faces, with a Sentinel coming smashing through the roof; a montage of them all being hunted and killed. Because you have those familiar faces, it means you don't have to dwell on the exposition... you can just show it, and move on. Having more familiar actors back potentially means that they have to dwell in the future less, because it allows them to be less wordy and more visual.

Plus, I'm sure we'll get a "this is the future and everything is back to normal" scene at the end, where Singer shows that the team has managed to avert the events of Last Stand, or whatever.


McAvoy has gone on record saying that he has no scenes with Patrick Stewart. That may be no big deal at all, but it's got me thinking. In the original version of the story (I believe), Shadowcat transferred her consciousness to the past: not her physical body. In the X-Men cartoon adaptation they had Bishop physically travel to the past. In the more recent Wolverine and the X-Men, they had a consciousness travel back in time... but it was Xavier, and he was using "astral projection".

I'm wondering if instead of Kitty transferring her consciousness, it's Xavier. The idea of a psychic's consciousness transcending time makes more sense than it being someone who has no psychic abilities whatsoever; and it can't be Kitty anyway, since the character wouldn't have been born in the 70s in this continuity. It also means that if Xavier is being shown visions of the future they can have McAvoy in those scenes (watching Future Xavier's memories through his own eyes, as it were), and if Future Xavier is communicating with X-Men in the past, Stewart can be in those scenes. That would be a fantastic way of ensuring that it remains an X-Men First Class movie: even the scenes in the future would feature an XMFC actor.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Alan Cummings is returning as Nightcrawler: http://www.scifinow.co.uk/news/38053/x-men-days-of-future-past-alan-cummings-nightcrawler-returns/

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Alan Cummings is returning as Nightcrawler: http://www.scifinow.co.uk/news/38053/x-men-days-of-future-past-alan-cummings-nightcrawler-returns/
:eee :eee :eee :eee

[Droo]

Actually, that is the best bit of casting news I've heard yet. He was sorely missed in The Last Stand, and it will be wonderful to see him reprise the role again.

[Dasquian Belargic]

False alarm :(

http://www.themarysue.com/xmen-days-of-future-past-alan-cumming/

[Lilaena De'Ville]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[Jedi Master Carr]

Yeah, I heard he probably won't be in it. It might be hard to get him into this film unless they want to show a baby Nightcrawler or something.

[Captain Untouchable]

Yeah, I heard he probably won't be in it. It might be hard to get him into this film unless they want to show a baby Nightcrawler or something.

BABY NIGHTCRAWLER! :ohno

Oh god, if there is a baby Nightcrawler bamfing about the place in this, I will quite probably get thrown out of the cinema for making high-pitched and highly non-masculine noises.

Edit:

So apparently (http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/03/10/bryan-singer-x-men-days-of-future-past-apocalypse), Apocalypse might be a villain in this. Which honestly sounds like reading into things too much and grasping at straws... almost.

Somehow, I highly doubt that Apocalypse will be an actual, tangible villain. The Sentinels are the villains of Days of Future Past, and we've been told that a bunch of times. On the other hand, Apocalypse is pretty much the most powerful mutant in the history of ever... and if they're skipping ahead to a future where the world basically declared war on mutants, there's got to be a reason.

Up until now, I was sort of assuming that Last Stand would be the reason: things got pretty gnarly with the whole smashing up the Golden Gate Bridge thing. However, that was sort-of handled... and it's quite a leap to go from tranquilliser guns filled with a "cure" to giant robots (made of metal, which is a bit daft when one of the biggest threats you just faced was Magneto). Something has got to happen in order to force the government's hand... and I wonder if it'll be Apocalypse. It's something they could toss in as a few seconds of CGI as part of a montage, but that would potentially set them up with a villain that could be fought in the next X-Men movie (be it X4, XMFC 3, Wolverine 3, or what-have-you).

[Jedi Master Carr]

I could see Apocalypse being like Thanos in this movie. If he is in it, I see a cameo at the end where we find out he manipulated everything in the movie.

[Dasquian Belargic]

We have a new cast member:

http://www.themarysue.com/quicksilver-in-singer-xmen/

... :whaa

[Captain Untouchable]

I'm not surprised by this. Fox was pretty determined to stop Marvel Studios from getting control of properties like the Fantastic Four back, and with the limbo situation that the Maximoff twins find themselves in, I'm surprised that Fox didn't find a way to bring them into the X-Men franchise sooner.

It'll be interesting to see what Marvel Studios does; and also what Joss does. Joss is very much not a fan of this kind of studio politics crap, and since he already has to leave out the "Magneto is their dad" part of the characters, I wonder if this kind of thing will make them seem like they're more trouble than their worth. While yeah, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch have a decent amount of backstory between them... that's considerably less backstory with two studios hacking away at it, and there's a risk that Fox will do the stuff that Joss wants to do in order to trip things up, etc.

[Kale]

Story decisions determined by studio politics? That doesn't bode well.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Havok / Alex Summers confirmed for this: http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/178087-bryan-singer-confirms-the-return-of-havok-in-x-men-days-of-future-past

[Captain Untouchable]

Sending Havok to Vietnam maybe? We know Logan was there, so if he has any non-future scenes that'd put things before his bullet induced amnesia, I guess?

[Dasquian Belargic]

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[Rutabaga]

Excuse me, but I can't hear you over my shrill fangirl screaming.

http://i207.photobucket.com/albums/bb164/Rutabaga64/daysoffuturepast_zpsa7f09269.png (http://s207.photobucket.com/user/Rutabaga64/media/daysoffuturepast_zpsa7f09269.png.html)

[Dasquian Belargic]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BQmc-9fCIAA6yMf.jpg:large

woah.

[Rutabaga]

Oooooo, I like it :)

[Jedi Master Carr]

The teaser trailer was released today and it is awesome. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9-9U6Rm46U

[Rutabaga]

Oh, this looks ssssooooo good. :)

[Darth Turbogeek]

Wow. What an truly awful trailer

[Crusader]

Wow. What an truly awful trailer

It wasn't awful but I think I felt underwhelmed as well.

I already hate myself for thinking this but I have a hard time to believe that this movie really works inside the original X-Men movies' continuity. I fear that X-Men 3 was so bad that it will even fuck up this movie for me. :(

[Dasquian Belargic]

I enjoyed the trailer ^_^;

[Sasseeri Reeouurra]

I'm really excited to see this story. It isn't going to be perfect, but I think it will be enjoyable.

i still need to read the comics version. ^_^;

[Dasquian Belargic]

I haven't read that particular comic arc either. I'll probably wait until closer to the films release date, since there's a good chance it will be on sale then!

[Sasseeri Reeouurra]

Ty keeps telling me he has it, but he has about twenty long boxes of comics and no time to go through them - it's been nine years!

[Droo]

It's not a particularly well cut trailer, to be honest, but I'm encouraged by what we get to see. My concern is the number of characters the film will have to juggle, and also that the plot appears to be heavily dependant on Wolverine again.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

For better or for worse Hugh Jackman's Wolverine is a fan favorite (I'm a fan! So sue me!) and giving him the Kitty Pryde role of going to the past makes sense. She only has the barest of a presence in the xmen movies, so giving her such a large important role in this one might make it hard for casual viewers (I.e. People who don't read the comics, which is where most of the money for this franchise comes from) to connect.

The reason they give in this movie is that he's the only one who can survive the time travel because of his healing factor. And Kitty is integral to sending him back, using her phasing power on him in some way. Also, I figure he has to have a body in the past to wake up in, which in Kitty's case may not be so since she's pretty young.

sheesh, anyone who doesn't like movie Wolverine can talk to my fist. :shakefist ;)

[Mr. Feint]

I thought the Trailer was great. I literally watched it at least ten times, even going so far as to progress it frame by frame so I could analyze everything. I'm already more excited for this than I am for Amazing Spider-Man 2 or Captain America: The Winter Soldier. It wasn't a bad trailer; it did everything a trailer was suppose to. It established plot, characters, and, for some, an emotional connection. It also raised some very interesting questions that I can't wait to find out when I see the movie. And I'm a sucker for dark and emotional.

I think everyone needs to stop being butt hurt fanboys. Yes, X3 and Origins were travesties, but First Class and The Wolverine were good. Bunch of Negative Nathans.

[Dasquian Belargic]

More importantly, why are we wasting time on Storm? I wish that they would recast her or just cut her all together. I feel like I could say with 99% certainty that her role in this story is negligible at best.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Yes, less Storm, more ...someone else. Wolverine, maybe. Shirtless, of course. Maybe they'll bring back Gambit (another hideously mishandled addition in x3 if I remember correctly).

[Judas Voss]

He was in Origins, and he was horribly mishandled. Mostly just horribly executed fanservice. I thought Storm was pretty good in X1, and then they pushed her into an edgier, less motherly role and absolutely ruined her. The X-Men 90's Cartoon version of Storm is how I will always envision her.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

I only watched Origins and X3 in theaters. Once and twice, respectively. I am hoping to forget most of the details. ;)

Still, I love Taylor Kitch. :swoon:Apparently Channing Tatum wants to play Gambit, should the role come up again (I had to google for Taylor's last name and all that came up was Channing Tatum says he wants to play gambit in a Sept 2013 interview lol)

[Kara Hawkins]

I am hopeful for this. I really enjoyed First Class (We do not speak of X3. :| ) The trailer didn't completely grab me and shake my by the shoulders and demand my attention but I look forward to it anyway!

[Dragon]

I recall the trailers to First Class being incredibly bland. I don't think Fox knows how to market these movies.

There are definitely some interesting visuals. I remain ambivalent about dividing the focus between the old cast and the new, but the trailer seems to indicate the focus will stay on Xavier and Magneto, which is as it should be. I still wonder whether the future timeline will really just be a framing device - equivalent to the post-apocalyptic scenes from Terminator 2 that serve just to show what the heroes are trying to avert - or whether a significant part of the plot will happen there. If it's the former, then characters like Storm and Kitty are probably just serving as glorified cameos. If it's the latter, this is going to be a complex piece of storytelling to pull off. Perhaps we'll see parallel plotlines unfolding in different points in history, sort of like in Frequency (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0186151/?ref_=nv_sr_1)?

Either way, I definitely would prefer to see the existing characters explored further rather than squeezing in a few more fan favorites, and that's the thing that still concerns me the most about this movie. I'm actually surprised that anyone thinks Singer did a good job with the character development in the first two X-Men films. I've always considered them glaring examples of the plot driving the characters, while in First Class it's the characters driving the plot.

Anyway, I'll be thrilled if it all works, and if it doesn't, at least it'll be a dose of superhero movie popcorn. I'm likely going to see it unless it's completely panned.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Great, now I'm picturing Frequency, except at the end instead of Dennis Quaid appearing in the current timeline with a shotgun it's Wolverine. *snict*

MIGHT be a better movie.

Just kidding, Frequency is a terrific movie as is. Highly recommend! I hope they are going to lay the storylines together like that, it would be cool, I think.

[Captain Untouchable]

Days of Future Past was recently(ish) adapted into the cartoon series Wolverine and the X-Men. It didn't directly adapt the exact storyline, but it had the elements of someone from the future communicating with the past in order to ensure that the post-apocalyptic future was averted. That had a slightly more "phone call from the future" vibe rather than sending someone back all in one go... but they adapted that into something that managed to focus on the "present" for the most part, but still gave a decent amount of character development and attention to characters in the future: Team Future would explain an event that occurred, and Team Present would then be shown either succeeding or failing in averting it, etc.

Not that I'm expecting this movie to be like that or anything... but if DOFP can manage to do that in twenty minute instalments aimed primarily at children, I figure a two-hour movie aimed at adults stands a reasonable chance of doing an okay job.

What I'm apprehensive about is the characters like Bobby, Kitty, Colossus, etc. As Holly pointed out, those are the comic book / cartoon fan favourites, but they didn't really get all that much screen time in the movies thus far, and they only exist in the future and not the past. At least one of the promo pictures hints at Bobby and Kitty being a "thing"... but whether that's a "just happens in the background and isn't focused on too much" thing, or "is focused on and takes up screen time that could have been invested elsewhere" thing... that's the kind of stuff that's going to be tricky to execute, I think. The characters who have past selves, where the movie can contrast between their two incarnations to illustrate how history has changed them... those are probably gonna be much easier to pull off.

[Jedi Master Carr]

I suspect some characters like Storm will be killed off in the very beginning of the film. I do think we will get parallel stories of the past and future and certain characters in the future will die. While Wolverine will be a big focus, I still think Magneto and Xavier will be the central characters. I still thought it was a great trailer and very character focused. I understand the VFX aren't done yet so we should get more action shots in the next one. I did think it was much better than the Captain America trailer which very underwhelmed me.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Our first shot of Quicksilver: http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/181063-new-image-from-x-men-days-of-future-past-featuring-evan-peters-as-quicksilver

[Droo]

Saw this today and loved it.

Right from the start, this film felt like a sequel to Brian Singer's X-Men movies, what with the return of the theme from X-Men 2. And, with John Ottman back onboard for editing and score, that shouldn't have been a surprise. Personally, I missed the First Class theme. In fact, there was a lot about First Class that I missed.

I'll get this off my chest right now: apart from being crucial to the plot, almost everything about the future scenes felt like a waste. The action those scenes boasted was very cool, and the brief moments with McKellen and Stewart are to be cherished, but every scene in the future felt like a deviation from the heart of the film. The new cast are the heart of the film, and rightly so, and, while I understand the presence of X-Men vets and applaud Singer's efforts to merge old and new into a cohesive whole, the future stuff was much less satisfying. Given the story, though, I can appreciate that's unavoidable, and it certainly doesn't detract much from the overall experience.

When I say the new cast are the heart of the film, I mean Charles, Erik, and Raven, with Hank being a more peripheral component of the narrative. Of course, Logan's mixed up in it all, and I love his scenes with... everyone, basically, but particularly Charles. There's a lot of role-reversal poignancy in those scenes. This is a refreshing grown-up Wolverine.

Speaking of the new cast, Quicksilver is amazing, and for humour and pure entertainment, his scenes steal the movie, but sadly, his screen time is about as long as this sentence. I was forewarned of this, and I think you'll appreciate the warning too, because otherwise I can only imagine his sudden absence to be only too noticeable.

As for plot, I've no complaints. I was kept guessing about the direction it would take pretty much right up until the end, and I was pleasantly surprised. Character decisions really matter, and in that, you can really see the difference between the main trio, with Charles and Erik being allies but polar opposites, and Mystique being somewhere between them, sliding ambiguously up and down the morality scale. The pacing was nice, and the only time I felt it sag was during the future scenes.

Overall, I thought it was a very enjoyable film, with some great moments of humour, solid action, and plenty of fond moments for fans of the entire X-men series. I'll discuss spoilery stuff later, I suppose, but until anyone else has seen it, there's no point right now. So, go check it out!