The first extended look at X-Men: Days of Future Past is finally here. The follow-up to 2011’s X-Men: First Class brings back the series’ original mastermind Bryan Singer as director, who saw fit to adapt the seminal ’80s comic book time travel story that allows original cast members like Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Halle Berry and Ian McKellen share the screen with Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy and Jennifer Lawrence.
In the original arc penned by Chris Claremont, in a dystopian future Mutants have been exiled to concentration camps by the robotic Sentinels, which were created by Dr. Bolivar Trask. Kitty Pryde sends her consciousness back in time into her younger self to assist the X-Men in preventing the assassination of Senator Kelly by The Brotherhood of Mutants, and change the anti-Mutant future that awaits.
The film swaps Kitty Pryde (sorry Ellen Page) with Hugh Jackman’s far more bankable big screen Wolverine as the timeline traveler, and like any Bryan Singer production, promises to deliver big with dark character development and action.
X-Men: Days of Future Past, set for May 23rd, 2014 in 3D, has enlisted an all-star Mutant line-up of Hugh Jackman (Wolverine), Jennifer Lawrence (Mystique), James McAvoy (Charles Xavier), Michael Fassbender (Erik Lehnsherr), Patrick Stewart (Professor X), Ian McKellen (Magneto), Nicholas Hoult (Beast), Peter Dinklage (Dr. Bolivar Trask), Halle Berry (Storm), Ellen Page (Kitty Pryde), Shawn Ashmore (Iceman), Omar Sy (Bishop), Anna Paquin (Rogue), Fan Bingbing (Blink), Daniel Cudmore (Colossus), Boo Boo Stewart (Warpath), Evan Peters (Quicksilver), Josh Helman (William Stryker), Adan Canto (Sunspot) and Lucas Till (Havok).
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