Yesterday
at the Fantasia International Film Festival, director and producer Bryan Singer
attended the Rated X: An Evening with Bryan Singer panel to talk about the
upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past, but also previous X-Men, Man of Steel and
Star Trek.
About
the previous X-Men movies, Singer said that he prepared for the first movie by
watching all the X-Men episodes from the 1990’s animation series. Singer
continued by saying that actor Russell Crowe was keen on playing Wolverine, but
didn’t get the role because he wanted to
play Wolverine as a bald man.
Jumping
X2 and moving to Last Stand, Singer said that hat he liked that Brett Ratner
cast Ellen Page for the role of Kitty Pryde, aka Shadowcat, but would have preferred
if Cyclops was still alive. Regarding Professor X sudden resurrection, Singer
explains that they “Could justify bringing Xavier back because he transferred
his consciousness and could possibly construct a body around that
consciousness.”
Moving
on to Days of Future Past, Singer restated that the movie will take place ten
years after The Last Stand, but the majority of the film will take place in 1973,
the cast of First Class, “You find the characters in very different
places than you saw them in First Class.” Singer confirmed that actor Josh
Helman will play a young William Stryker and that although Quicksilver is in
the movie, Scarlet Witch isn't.
Before
ending the X-Men part, Singer said that the movie is being shot in 3D, so there
won’t be a 3D conversion later on.
When
asked about Man of Steel, he said that it was “a total re-conception of the
Richard Donner movies” and that Henry Cavill was a charming Superman. Singer
then said that if he could have done a sequel to his Superman Returns, it would
also have had an alien threat.
About
Jack The Giant Slayer, Singer said that he wasn’t “creatively compromised”, but
that the studio didn’t made a great job of distributing it.
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