X-Men: Days of Future Past

The sequel to X-Men: First Class will be directed by the original X-Men movie director Bryan Singer. The movie will be based on the popular X-Men comic story arc of the same name.

Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart are coming back to reprise their roles as Magneto and Professor Xavier, respectively. Hopefully Hugh Jackman and Ellen Page will come back to play Wolverine and Kitty Pryde, respectively.

Maybe the awfulness and damage of First Class can be overcome by this.

Hopefully the future they're trying to wipe out is one where X-Men 3 exists.

Seriously, though, I am tentatively excited for this. It's just, y'know, Fox.

I thought First Class was extremely well done.

Really?

First Class was the goddam Godfather after X-Men 3 and XMO: Wolverine.

I think the X-Men movies producer, Lauren Shuler Donner, realized after Marvel's Avengers and subsidiary movies that if you treat the IPs with respect that it will pay off big time at the box office. I thought X-Men: First Class was a good step in the direction.

Sad to hear that we don't get seem to be getting the time travelling and always angry Bishop as in the animated cartoon.

You are nutty. First Class was crazy great.

Due to the shortage of Soul Glo (tm), we are unable to feature Bishop in any film or television media.

Boo :(.

That would be BRILLIANT.

Well, yeah. The X-Men, and by extension the world, are kind of fucked after X3. Xavier's dead, the X-Men have no leader (Wolverine is not a leader), their most useful member sold out and got her powers wiped, the only frickin' competent member left on the team is goddamn Iceman and Team Magneto lost... absolutely nothing. In a just world, with every recognizable threat removed, Magneto forms a new Brotherhood and kills the living shit out of everybody.

Yeah, I caught First Class and it restored some hope for the franchise after 3 and Origins. Not as good as the first or second, but it stopped the race to the bottom that it seemed they were desperately trying to win.

Singer, actors full of awesome, and a well-regarded alternate universe story that frees them to step outside the box? Yes please.

I thought First Class was easily better than the first X-men movie and on par, perhaps even edging out, the enjoyment I got from the second.

Not dead. Just no longer Patrick Stewart. So he might as well be dead!

I'd honestly say that the part of that movie which bugged me the most would be the completely pointless and stupid way Cyclops dies. I was never a fan of the character (I don't really think anyone's a huge Cyclops fan, but I could be wrong), but I liked the portrayal of him by James Marsden.

Obviously Iceman and Wolverine recruit an entirely new team of X-Men. Dazzler! Psylocke! Morph! Sugarman!

As much as I think XMO:W was a crap factory of wasted effort, there are decent sections of the movie which are okay. Sure, the average is tanked by Deadpool and the whole messed up continuity of the thing, but I wouldn't mind seeing Taylor Kitsch return as Gambit. Beats the shit out of him doing Battleship 2 or something. Maybe bring back Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler. There's stuff in the X-Men continuity that they could pull from.

Not that any of this matters if Days of Future Past takes place before X-Men 1, but also in the dark future in which there are only sentinals.

So who plays Rachel Summers? omg felicia day amirite?!?!?

Nah, they need someone who can emote for more than five minutes at a time.

We're getting into Claremont territory, the X-Men that I actually grew up on. I eagerly await catsuits and corsets and unsubtle bondage themes

Couldn't be happier about Stewart and McKellen reprising their roles, they're the best things about the X-Men movies for me. I'm of two minds on wanting Jackman back: he's a great Wolverine when he's a part of a bigger story, but X-Men 3 seemed like an exercise in superpowered actors (or agents) influencing a weak script. I'd be happier to have Marsden back, tbh, especially given the Summers' role in ye olde time travel stories.

MMMMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

I don't get all the Hugh Jackman Wolverine love. He's weak, at best.

I nominate Daniel Day Lewis!

I thought First Class was a great movie, and I'm glad to hear they're going to continue with that rather than rebooting or doing a very ordinary X-Men 4. And Days of Future Past? This has the potential to be pure win.

havok rulez cyclops droolz

Cyclops is the teleporting guy, right?

No, that's Wolverine. How else can he be on every team ever?

Bryan Singer has tweeted that Anna Paquin (aka Rogue), Ellen Page (aka Shadowcat) and Shawn Ashmore (aka Iceman) are returning. They join Jennifer Lawrence (young Mystique), Hugh Jackman (Wolverine), James McAvoy (young Professor X), Michael Fassbender (young Mageneto), Nicholas Hoult (young Beast), Sir Patrick Stewart (Professor X), and Sir Ian McKellen (Magneto)

Very excited to welcome #annapaquin, @ellenpage & @shawnrashmore to #XMen #DaysofFuturePast - thank you @brettratner for letting them live!

— Bryan Singer (@BryanSinger) January 26, 2013

So there is time travel in this one? Cuz I am pretty sure Sir Patrick Stewart turned to ash and took over some brain dead guy ,in the 3rd XMEN movie.

Maybe they'll rewrite time and space so X3 never existed.

Obvs you guys have never heard of the massive success that introducing clones to comics was.

You say that, but they've never backed off of that shit and while they rarely mention Ben Reilly except to make occasional cute references to it, there's still plenty of stuff in modern Spidey canon that requires that all that nonsense have happened.

That said, I actually liked USM's take on it and Ultimate Spider-Woman is one of my favorite Ultimate Marvel characters.

Edit: I haven't read most comics for a while. Now that I look, apparently Kaine is now the Scarlet Spider? Jesus. A thirty year old mistake is still running around in comics. Per Ben Reilly's Wikipedia article "On July 25, 2010, at the San Diego Comic-con, fans expressed their desire to see a return of Ben Reilly." Fans? You guys are dumb and should shut up.

It's kind of hilarious to hear people suggest that Wolverine isn't a leader when he's been doing exactly that for at least a year now. Granted, he's splitting the job with Shadowcat (and presumably other people - I fell off Wolverine and the X-Men after about six), but he's still the headmaster of the Jean Gray Loaf of Hormonal Teenagers or whatever they're calling that place. I think that he was also the leader on Uncanny X-Force too, wasn't he?

The obvious point of this movie, in addition to being a popular comic story, is that it lets the studio reset everything that happened in X3 (in addition to replacing quite a lot of the actors they can't afford anymore with younger, more easily budgeted counterparts). This is a consummation devoutly to be wished. I do wonder if they'll be bringing back Sookie before or after she went to the Re-Neducation facility to have her pointy edge sanded down, though. It seems like if the movie franchise really wants to own up to one of the fundamental themes of the property, it should at least have her regret that call a little.

Maximum Clonage.

Of course, I was half joking but having bothered to go and look it up. Yes, Xavier in the comics is currently probably technically inhabiting a clone body after his original was destroyed. It even has the same conciousness transferring malarkey. Somehow unbelievably he managed to suffer another spinal injury a few issues later, but I guess it worked out in the end as I'm pretty sure I've seen him gadding about in robot legs in a cartoon as well.

With respect to Xavier in the comics....

X-Men: Days of Future Past is based on the story arc of the same name where Kitty Pryde from a dystopian future, where mutants are hunted down, seeks the help of the X-Men stop the anti-mutant hysteria. So I guess that the cast from original X-Men movie will reprise their roles in the dystopian future, thus they can bring back Professor X, Cyclops, and other dead mutants.

Felicia Day as Rachel Summers.

Edit: I kid. Though I'd be open to it. But only if they forced her to have Rachel Summers' original super, super 80s haircut.

What? This old thing? Its just a red flat top with a rat-tail braid that's all.

(face tattoos, bondage collar)

Oh man, I'm getting some strange deja vu.

But that's OK, because I could click LIKE on that sentiment all day. Fuck X3.

Strangely enough in a recent Empire Magazine interview with Bryan Singer he doesn't mention or consider X-Men 3 at all.

(Emphasis mine)

The next sentence after the one that you've emphasised pretty much states that he's also considering 'X-Men 3' and probably 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine'.

Edit: unless I'm misunderstanding what you're taking away from that quote, in which case I apologise.

He does say thanks to Brett Ratner for not killing those returning characters in the tweet up thread, which I took to mean he is taking X3 into consideration.

Well, he did consult James Cameron on time travel so he could do away with X-Men 3 and X-Men Origins: Wolverine somehow...

He also said there's some "clean-up," so hopefully what he'll take from X3 is FIXING IT.