The all-star Mutant cast of X-Men: Days of Future Past keeps growing. Director Bryan Singer took to his Twitter account today and welcomed back X-Men vets Anna Paquin (Rogue), Shawn Ashmore (Iceman) and Ellen Page (Kitty Pryde).
Bringing back Page was key, as her Kitty Pryde (last seen in 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand) played a crucial role in the landmark 1981 Marvel comics storyline the upcoming film is based upon. In the comics lore, an older Kitty Pryde from warns her younger self of an impending Mutant dystopian future, where her super powered comrades find themselves locked away in government run internment camps.
The plot involves time travel, which will allow the newer cast of 2011’s X-Men: First Class to share the spotlight with the stars of the first three X-Men films in an alternate reality storyline.
To keep count now, Singer has previously posted on Twitter that also returning from the original trilogy will be Hugh Jackman (Wolverine), Ian McKellen (Magneto) and Patrick Stewart (Charles Xavier). Jackman has confirmed he will be back (well he has been in every film in the franchise), but no official word from 20th Century Fox as of yet regarding Sirs McKellen and Stewart.
Singer, returning to the franchise to direct this sequel to X-Men: First Class, also announced James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender and Nicholas Hoult from the First Class cast would reprise their roles as Charles Xavier, Mystique, Magneto, and Beast.
Kelsey Grammar played Beast in X-Men: The Last Stand, and it remains to be seen if he will return as the older counterpart to Hoult’s First Class version. The casting waiting game similarly applies to Halle Berry (Storm), James Marsden (Cyclops) and Famke Jannsen (Jean Grey). Their fellow X-Men alumni Rebecca-Romijn actually did a clever cameo in First Class, playing an older Jennifer Lawrence in Mystique’s human form. However, as with Anna Paquin’s Rogue, her character was ‘cured’ of her mutant powers during the events of The Last Stand.
Apparently Hugh Jackman is well in the know about the film and let this slip earlier this month: “You wouldn’t have enough room on the page after you’ve listed them all” he told the Daily Mail. “Every other actor who’s ever put on a superhero uniform will be in it.”
Very excited to welcome #annapaquin, @ellenpage & @shawnrashmore to #XMen #DaysofFuturePast – thank you @brettratner for letting them live!
— Bryan Singer (@BryanSinger) January 26, 2013
X-Men: Days of Future Past is targeted for a July 2014 release.
SOURCE: Twitter
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