The
X-Men: Days of Future Past first trailer just got released and judging by people’s
opinions, they can’t wait to see the film.
Director
Bryan Singer took the time from post-production to talk about the trailer by
commenting on some screengrabs. Check out the rest of them at Empire.
“The
grey in the hair is something I took from X-Men Days Of Future Past, it’s a
look in the comic,” says Singer. “I liked it, even though he hasn’t really aged
physically it’s something that shows how tough things have gotten in the
future, and brought that out in him and given him a little more
world-weariness.”
“She’s
one of the last surviving X-Men in this post-apocalyptic world,” explains
Singer of Storm’s place in the movie. “She’s part of that with Wolverine and
Charles and Magneto, they’re some of the last folk standing from the original
X-Men. They’re at the spearhead of this mission, this last chance at saving the
world. This is their only hope, their mission into time. Can you actually go
back and affect time? Can you go back and change things or will time correct
itself? Will history fight you back and is your destiny pre-determined or can
you change it?”
“You’ll
need me as well…” Ian McKellen’s Erik Lehnsherr, AKA Magneto, is also a fixture
in the future war, facing an enemy so monstrous that it forces former foes to
band together. When we meet the X-Men in the future, the X-Men effectively no
longer exist. “They’re on the run,” says Singer. “There’s no organisation. It’s
all been shattered. Most of them have been hunted down. Most of them are dead.”
“Days
Of Future Past isn’t all about the old guard. Singer and writer Simon Kinberg
have introduced some new mutants too, and here’s our first look at Omar Sy as
long-term fan favourite Bishop, Adan Canto as fiery Brazilian mutant Sunspot
(who almost appeared in X-Men 3), Booboo Stewart as the Native American strongman
Warpath and Fan Bingbing as Blink, whose ability to conjure portals may come in
handy during battles. Just don’t think of them as X-Men. “They’re not really
fresh recruits,” explains Singer. “They’re more refugees that are living day to
day in this hideously ruined world. They don’t have much hope in the future.
They’re on the run and they join forces with the remaining X-Men to try to do
this one last attempt at fixing the world.”
“There’s
a line in the movie, ‘he’s always had a way with guns’,” reveals Singer.
“That’s how he crippled Xavier, and he’s such a powerful mutant but in this
particular moment he’s holding a gun and I like that. He’s a product of the
Second World War and he knows how to use a gun as much as he does his powers.”
The
monastery or temple or whatever the heck it is comes under attack as a bulky
figure runs through the destruction. Is this our first look at the return of
Daniel Cudmore as Peter Rasputin, aka the metal-skinned Colossus? It sure is.
Minus the metal skin.
“He
may be his human form in that shot, I’m not sure. By that time in the sequence
he may actually be metal but I have no visual effects done!” laughs Singer. “So
for that shot you just get what’s on the set – a big, live, real explosion. No
CGI yet. We’re in process on very elaborate effects but there’s really none of
them done except for a couple of backdrops and a couple of shots I could slide
in.”
Now
this is a big one. Logan, in the 1970s, takes out some dude. You can just about
see them in this grab, but Wolverine’s claws aren’t adamantium. Instead,
they’re all bone, baby. All bone.
“He
doesn’t have his metal yet in 1973,” confirms Singer, which places this movie
before the events of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and Wolverine’s first meeting
with a man by the name of William Stryker, head of the Weapon X programme.
Here, Stryker (previously played by Brian Cox in X2 and Danny Huston in
Origins) is played by Josh Helman. And we’re intrigued to see how Magneto and
Wolverine get on now that the former can’t make the latter behave like a puppet
on a string…
And
Old Charles. This juxtaposition between Fassbender and McAvoy’s broken Erik and
Charles and the dignified old men they become will be one of Days Of Future
Past’s major themes.
“When
I try to direct an actor, you always try to give them a sense of who they were
as young men, who they were in their past lives, and in my imagination I always
had that [with Charles and Erik],” says Singer. “I was able to introduce those
notions in X-Men First Class but to actually have them performing
simultaneously on screen, that was a real thrill and a challenge.”
And
the trailer ends with the big visual that sent 6,500 people in Hall H nuts when
the footage debuted at Comic-Con: the meeting of the two Xaviers, presumably on
the astral plane. “Please…” pleads Stewart’s Xavier of his reluctant younger
self. “I need you to hope again.”
“It’s
an abstract scene, without giving away its origin and how it happens,” says
Singer. “It’s a trippy scene, it has a bit of 70s style in it and the entire
scene involved a lot of interesting practical photography using mirrors and
other things. It was fun to shoot, and it was great to get the two actors
together.”
Interestingly,
it was McAvoy’s first day on set – not a bad way to ease yourself in gently.
“I
did get goosebumps,” adds Singer. “I’ve got a picture on my iPhone of the two
of them talking to each other. These moments need to be photographed.”
X-Men:
Days of Future Past star James McAvoy (Younger Professor X), Michael
Fassbender(Younger Magneto), Jennifer Lawrence (Raven/Mystique), Patrick
Stewart (Older Professor X), Ian McKellan (Older Magneto), Hugh Jackman
(Logan/Wolverine), Halle Berry (Ororo Munroe/Storm),Anna Paquin (Marie/Rogue),
Ellen Page (Kitty Pryde/Shadowcat), Shawn Ashmore (Bobby Drake/Iceman), Omar
Sy, Daniel Cudmore (Piotr Rasputin/Colossus), Booboo Stewart, Fan Bingbing
(Clarice Ferguson/Blink), Nicholas Hoult (Hank McCoy/Beast) and Peter Dinklage and
opens on May 23rd, 2014
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