The Next X-MEN Movie is "Days of Future Past"

X-Men Cast (including director) to Reprise Roles

X-MEN: FIRST CLASS was not only one impressive, epic superhero movie, it also washed out the stink brought upon the X-men movie franchise by its gad-awful sequels "X-men 3: The Last stand" and the SH!Tacular "X-Men Origins: Wolverine". After 'First Class', the next X-men movie project being developed is X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST which is obviously an adaptation of the 1981 x-Men storyline of the same title. Its storyline deals with a dystopian alternative future in which mutants are incarcerated in internment camps. But on the other hand, it seems obvious that this movie adaptation will blend the X-MEN FIRST CLASS universe with the previous X-MEN movies universe (and hopefully disregard and completely phase out the events of the awful third movie 'LAST STAND').

Bryan Singer, the director of the first two X-Men movies (and was producer of 'First Class') will step in and direct 'Days of Future Past'. In addition to First Class stars Michael Fassbender (Magneto), James McAvoy (Professor X), and Jennifer Lawrence (Mystique), we previously learned that X-Men actors Ian McKellan (Magneto), Patrick Stewart (Professor X), and Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) will be reprising their roles in the upcoming follow-up. In a recent Twitter revelation, Singer revealed that Anna Paquin (Rogue), Ellen Page (Kitty Pryde), and Shawn Ashmore (Iceman) will also be joining the cast.
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Singer tells Empire Magazine that they’ve managed to come up with the time travel rules that will allow the X-Men: First Class characters cross with the original X-Men characters:

“We’ve cracked it in a way that it makes sense. I had a two-hour conversation with James Cameron about time travel, string theory, multiverses and all that. You have to create your rules and stick wtih them. That’s why Terminator and Back To The Future work so well. And there are certain mechanisms in X-Men, certain powers, perceptions, and characters that make this possible.”

He adds:
“It has a lot of aspects of the comic. The actual comic of Days Of Future Past had a whole ton of stuff going on, so it’s like any of these things; you have to distill it. But I think the fans will be pleased that some of the most exciting parts of Days Of Future Past are going to be connected to this movie.”

YES, it is indeed great that he will be having the comicbook storyline as a solid basis. But he also notes that he also has to take into consideration the best aspects of the movies:
“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. People took things in various directions, so there’s some clean-up. But ultimately I’m not just ignoring them either.”


X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST opens on July 18, 2014. For now, let's a least be excited for the upcoming WOLVERINE movie which is also bent on redeeming and washing off the stink that the other Wolverine movie left off. THE WOLVERINE opens July 26.