In Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past, both Wolverine and Kitty Pryde are shot back in time to warn their fellow mutants and friends of the impending apocalypse, when in fact in the original comic book used as the source material only Kitty Pryde gets to play in the DeLorean and travel back in time thanks to her ability to send her conscience back in time to habit her younger self.
In an interview to TF, writer and producer Simon Kinberg says that they did thought
of only send Kitty Pryde but because not only is Wolverine one of the most
important characters in this particular movie franchise, there was a need to
send a physical representation of the future that looked the same in the past
has he did in the present.
"We made the decision for a lot of reasons, some
of them obvious and some of them more nuanced, to make it Wolverine who goes
back in time. One reason is that he's the protagonist of the franchise, and
probably the most beloved character to a mass audience. Probably the bigger
reason is that when we started thinking about the logistical realities of
Kitty's consciousness being sent back in time, to her younger self, as opposed
to her physical body being sent back..it was impossible. Obviously in the book
it's Kitty..but you're talking about an actress (Ellen Page) who, in the age of
Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy, would have been negative 20 years old. So
we started thinking again, and the first reflex response to that was a
character who doesn't age. Wolverine is the only character who would looks the
same in 1973 as he does in the future."
X-Men: Days of Future Past stars James McAvoy (Younger
Professor X), Patrick Stewart (Older Professor X), Michael Fassbender (Young
Magneto), 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.
X-Men: Days of Future Past opens on May 23rd, 2014
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