Looks like they really are getting the band back together: director Bryan Singer has confirmed that Anna Paquin, Ellen Page, and Shawn Ashmore are all set to return to the X-Men movie universe. They’ll be reprising their roles from the X-Men trilogy in the prequel X-Men: Days of Future Past. The film will involve alternate time lines and members of the X-Men traveling through time to prevent a pivotal event that leads to a dangerous future for man and mutant.
But for those concerned about how the previous films will mesh with the prequel series, this melding of the two series could twist the movie canon into a Gordian knot of contradictions and retcons. Luckily, Singer is aware of the potential for disaster and has assured fans that he will respect the continuity of both series. He said:
I’m taking into account every movie – I’m not just grabbing my first two movies and First Class and smashing them together. I’m taking into account the entire universe as it’s been laid out so far on the screen, and really respecting it and trying to work with that.
X-Men: Days of Future Past will be released July 18, 2014. Looking forward to the new film? Feeling better about the continuity? Just hoping that Wolverine will use the f-word again? Let us know in the comments below!
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I confess I don’t know much about comics, but I was listening to a nerdy podcast, and they were talking about this. It was recorded right around the time that the film title was announced. There is a story arc in the comics that goes by the “Days of Future Past” title, and it is a time-traveling twisty one. I think Kitty Pryde goes back in time to prevent something terrible from happening? But it’s more like grown Kitty Pryde traveling back to when she was a teenager, so (I don’t think — again, this is just me trying to remember what they said in the podcast) there wasn’t any visiting Magneto or Xavier when they were younger in the 60s. But anyway, they seem to be getting the idea from that.
On the podcast they were a little concerned about it being done on film, just because it’s a long, almost convoluted story line. So we’ll have to see. I think it could be interesting, if it’s handled well.
I haven’t read the comics myself, but I have friends who are into them so I always go to them for details on things like this. The storyline does sound very convoluted so I’m a little worried about that, especially with the fact that there are already some differences between the original movie trilogy and the first prequel, but it could be really fun. Apparently, the movie will be going back and forth between the past and an alternate timeline in the future, which I guess is how they’re going to manage to have Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart show up since you’re right, they’re not supposed to go back according to the comics. But it’ll be cool to see them in their roles again, so even if the movie doesn’t end up handling things that well, I’ll at least enjoy that part!