'X-Men' movie sequel name revealed as 'Days of Future Past'
Published Aug 2 2012, 09:46 BST | By Hugh Armitage
The X-Men: First Class sequel will be titled Days of Future Past.Producer Bryan Singer has confirmed rumours that the 20th Century Fox film would be based on Chris Claremont's classic Uncanny X-Men storyline.
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"It's going to be very ambitious... It deals with aspects of that comic, but also some new things," he told IGN. "I just don't want to give all of it away."
The 1981 story dealt with a future version of Kitty Pryde taking possession of her present self.
She attempts to stop the murder of Senator Robert Kelly in order to prevent her dystopian future from coming to pass.
The storyline also featured the first appearance of Cyclops and Phoenix's alternate reality daughter Rachel Summers/Grey.
The title had previously been rumoured after it was registered with the MPAA Title Registration Bureau.
Marvel Studios confirmed the names of two of its own sequels as Captain America: Winter Soldier and Thor: The Dark World at Comic-Con last month.
X-Men: Days of Future Past is scheduled for release on July 18, 2014.
Watch Michael Fassbender discussing the sequel with Digital Spy below:
i think this is how they're explaining how they are completely ignoring the timeline of the other movies.
August 4th 2012 at 12:33pm
Just like adding alien symbiote to Spider-Man films may have been a step too far, adding time travel to X-Men films is way too gimmicky. Works in comics because you can get away with more far-out plots in comics.
August 4th 2012 at 7:18am
Still my favourite TPB. Can't wait for this.
August 4th 2012 at 2:58am
The way I understand this movie: Wolverine (and possibly the remaining X-Men from X3 - Storm, Kitty Pryde, Iceman etc) will travel back in time to prevent JFK being assassinated in 1963. Whatever their reason - in the comics it was to prevent an apocalyptic future with mutant-kiling Sentinals - they meet with the X-Men from First Class. Magneto, Mystique and the new Brotherhood are involved in the plot to kill JFK.
This is basically a device to bring back the popular actors, who still have contracts for further X-Men movies, whilst combining with the current status of the franchise and adapting a popular storyline into the movie universe. Would be interesting to see Kelsey Grammer's Beast act alongside Nicholas Hoult's Beast.
People need to get over the fact these movies are adaptations, and not literal translations onto screen. Of course certain characters won't be involved. Senator Kelly, the main target in the comic, was killed in the first X-Men movie, and Matthew Vaughn wants to incorporate historical events again, so whats so wrong with substituting with JFK? It could work really well as long as they don't flood the movie with too many characters.
August 3rd 2012 at 6:13pm(+3 likes)
I like this idea very much! I see no harm in taking ideas from one story and incorporating new ideas and directions. After all, what would be the point in simply re-telling a story that has been told countless times already?
August 3rd 2012 at 11:57pm
Countless times? Really? Chris Claremont and Dave Byrne did the original then what? It's appeared adapted in I think two of the animated versions, maybe also once more in the manga which I have never seen. So four times at the most (not including the follow ups, i.e. Days of Future Now etc).
This really would be the first high profile version of the story since the story itself.
August 4th 2012 at 2:57am
wait how can they do a days of future past storyline without the majority of the more famous adult x-men such as:
wolverine
cyclops
jean
storm
etc.
August 3rd 2012 at 4:46pm
^ The first thing I wondered.
August 4th 2012 at 2:54am
Apart from two obvious cameos, they have said that FC was a REBOOT. So they can use who they like for those characters (if they use them, and apart from Wolvie) and do what thye like with the storyline.
August 4th 2012 at 2:28pm
I was thinking more about pacing and story structure. There's quite a lot of characters who're integral to DOFP who haven't been introduced in FC.
Storm ain't too integral to the plot. Kitty Pryde and Wolverine are very integral to the plot. Jean Grey and Scott Summers... Although they're not exactly important to the plot of the story they are important to the back story of Rachel Summers; although I guess they could leave her out of it.
Also. FC was not a pure reboot. The only films deleted from the continuity were The Last Stand and Origins: Wolverine. Bryan Singer maintained the continuity of his two XMen films.
Second Class I'm guessing will be Prof X bringing in his first students to Xavier's School for the gifted proper, which I think it would make sense for the students to be a facsimile of the original XMen squad (probably tweaked). In the Bryan Singer XMen it's stated that Cyclops, Jean, and Storm were amongst the first students of the school so it makes sense to reintroduce them here.
The problem here would be I'm half sure that Kitty Pryde is named in the first of Bryan Singer's XMen films. I guess they could ignore that or just claim it coincidentally was another girl called Kitty who also happened to walk through walls... I dunno.
August 4th 2012 at 7:44pm(+1 like)
Thing is you cant have a 'sort of' reboot and ignore some films and not others. X3 as bad as it was WAS part of the 1 and 2 story. Singer can whine as much as he likes lol But it's the truth. So you cant say this is linked to 1 and 2 but not 3, as 3 is as much a part of the story arc as 1 and 2. It's either a reboot with some same cast members, or it isnt a reboot and they just messed up continuity.
August 4th 2012 at 10:38pm