Back in 2000 director Bryan
Singer gather a group of extraordinary individuals and made a film called X-Men.
He then made another, X-2 and left. Fourteen years later (feeling old?) he
returned to follow up on his cinematic creation with the most complicated and
perhaps most anticipated entry in the franchise.
X-Men: Days of Future Past
combines the original cast with the one from X-Men: First Class and wraps
everything up with alternate timelines, time travels and the iconic Sentinels,
and while we are all still flabbergasted with Singer’s ambition, the director
is already working at the follow-up, X-Men: Apocalypse, which promises to be so
much more.
In an interview to TF, Singer said
that work on X-Men: Apocalypse is going along
“We’re currently breaking the
story. We’re almost ready to go. Dan Harris, Michael Dougherty and Simon
Kinberg are in the office across the street from me, working on story stuff
right now. It’s great to have Dan and Michael back.”
For the unaware, Harris and
Dougherty scripted X-2 and Kinberg wrote Days of Future Past. In a previous interview
Singer said that X-Men: Apocalypse was going to delve into the concept of
ancient mutants, but that the movie itself was going to be set mainly on contemporary
times, with special attention to the cast of First Class.
“We’re going to deal with the
notion of ancient mutants – the fact they were born and existed thousands of
years ago. But it’ll be a contemporary movie – well, it’ll take place in the
’80s… The ’80s is a period now – it’s hard for me to believe that!”
Singer teased that the film will
have a broader scope that the previous ones:
“Apocalypse will have more of the
mass destruction that X-Men films, to date, have not relied upon. There’s
definitely now a character and a story that allow room for that kind of
spectacle… I don’t want to get too specific, but we’ll introduce familiar
characters in a younger time. That’ll be fun to show the audience. I call these
movies in-between-quels. It’s a mind-fuck sometimes in terms of where things fall
in the timeline!”
Singer expressed his desire to
continue on with the franchise after X-Men: Apocalypse:
“Yeah, there actually are [more
stories I want to tell]. It all stems back to when I did [the first] X-Men. You
always want to know where a character’s going to go, what their future’s going
be like. You can always sequelise. But on that film I also had actors asking
‘Who am I? Where did my character come from?’ So as a director you always need
a backstory to give your actors. It may not be the right backstory, but it’s
one you can give the actor to help them understand their character. These
prequels are really exciting for me because they give me a chance to explore
ideas I came up with more than a decade ago.”
X-Men: Days of Future Past stars James McAvoy (Younger Professor X), Michael Fassbender (Magneto) Jennifer Lawrence (Mystique), Patrick Stewart (Older Professor X), Ian McKellan (Older Magneto), Hugh Jackman (Wolverine), Halle Berry (Storm), Ellen Page (Shadowcat), Shawn Ashmore (Iceman), Omar Sy (Bishop), Adan Canto (Sunspot), Daniel Cudmore (Colossus), Booboo Stewart (Warpath), Fan Bingbing (Blink), Nicholas Hoult (Beast), Peter Dinklage (Bolivar Trask), Josh Helman (William Stryker), Evan Jonigkeit (Toad), Lucas Till (Alex Summers), Evan Peters (Quicksilver) and opens on May 23rd.
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