‘X-Men: First Class’ Sequel Titled ‘Days of Future Past’?

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There is word circulating that 20th Century Fox has reached out to the MPAA to secure a title for the studio’s forthcoming sequel to X-Men: First Class - and if reported accurately, that title is going to send a tidal wave of geek freak-outs across the Interwebs. The title in question is “Days of Future Past” – which remains one of the most famous and celebrated X-Men storylines of all time.

More interestingly, however: “Days of Future Past” was also a X-Men story that dealt with time travel and multiple timelines – meaning that director Matthew Vaughn and Fox could be (finally) trying to organize the convoluted continuity of the X-Men film franchise, using a tactic similar to what J.J. Abrams did with his Star Trek reboot.

Here is the quote from AICN reporter “The Kidd,” which first kicked off this rumor:

One of my little birds Weapon X recently dropped me some information that 20th Century Fox had recently registered the title DAYS OF FUTURE PAST with the MPAA Title Registration Bureau. The Bureau exists for studios and productions companies to stake their claims on certain titles that they intend to release and distribute, so that others can stray from using a similar title.

The title “Days of Future Past” is taken from the two-issue Uncanny X-Men comic book storyline written in 1981 by legendary X-Men writer/artist team Chris Claremont and John Byrne. In the story, the X-Men are trying to stop the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (led by Mystique) from killing an anti-mutant political figure named Senator Robert Kelly. This pivotal event creates a separate timeline in which the X-Men fail to stop the Kelly assassination, and as a result, mutants are hunted, imprisoned and exterminated by humanity. One X-Man from that future dystopia manages to travel back in time and warn the present day X-Men, who ultimately stop the assassination (though the two timelines both remain in existence).


The X-Men Battle Sentinels in 'Days of Future Past'

Given where X-Men: First Class left things, it’s easy to see how “Days of Future Past” could be reconfigured to focus on Magneto (Michael Fassbender) and his Brotherhood going after a key political figure, and the X-Men team being visited by a dimension-hopping mutant to be forewarned of what happens if they don’t stop the assassins. “Days of Future Past” also had the mutant-killing Sentinel robots, an older version of Wolverine, etc. – all of which would be awesome to see onscreen (not to mention a Terminator-style future dystopia). A “DoFP” plot could also open the door for the franchise to introduce time-hopping X-Men like Bishop or Cable to the mix.

In terms of the movies: “Days of Future Past” would give Vaughn and company a way to end all this continuity madness once and for all. If time travel and alternate timelines are successfully introduced into the X-Men movie universe, then that would be a perfect explanation for why the original X-Men trilogy (and Wolverine) have plot points that contradict First Class, while allowing all of the films to remain valid (unlike the ‘forget the past’ approach of the Spider-Man movie reboot).



“Days of Future Past” is an awesome story on its own – and I for one would welcome anything that could straighten out the movie continuity in satisfactory fashion. First Class was tormented all through development for not being a clear prequel OR reboot, but instead some weird amalgamation of both. I think a lot of X-Men fans would agree with the sentiment that it’s time to clean house. J.J. Abrams successfully cleared away decades of Star Trek continuity when he spun-off a new timeline for his 2009 reboot, which allowed him the freedom to tell his own stories using familiar characters.

Finally, introducing alternate timelines would give Fox many new options for how they approach their other upcoming X-Men films: including already-in-production sequel The Wolverine, and the already-planned X-Men 4. In fact, “First Class Continuity (FCC)” and/or “Original Trilogy Continuity (OTC)” could be terms we all start throwing around pretty soon. Comic book geekery at its best.

X-Men: Days of Future Past - if that is indeed the title – will be in theaters on July 18th, 2014.

Header Image by Deviant Art User “Wobblyone“.

Source: AICN

[Sure-Oz]

Originally Posted by Anyong Bluth

Punch to the crotch.

LOL, she has no real interest in seeing xmen but im hoping to see it tonight.

[Mr. Laz]

time travel and timelines are always a mess to deal with for films/TV

there wasn't as much cool tech stuff or tension without the future

You don't know what is going on without the past timeline


blending them together is disjointed and messy

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by Mr. Laz

time travel and timelines are always a mess to deal with for films/TV

there wasn't as much cool tech stuff or tension without the future

You don't know what is going on without the past timeline


blending them together is disjointed and messy

Is this your take on TT movies in general or this one in particular?...

[keg in kc]

Damn that was good.

[Wallcrawler]

Originally Posted by Rausch

This is what I was worried about.

Things like Cyclops and Havok not being the same age not only take you out of the movie right there but ruin any future storylines between the two...

You honestly believe that there were ANY stories between those two that are worthy of the big screen?

Hm.

[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by Rausch

Is this your take on TT movies in general or this one in particular?...

tension and info part about this one specifically


messy in general

[ThaVirus]

Originally Posted by Wallcrawler

Spoiler!

Im hoping we get the comic book battle between Magneto and Apocalypse where Mags magnetically rips his ass in half and says something like "For years you've gone on and on about how only the strong survive, so tell me again, just how strong you are." and walks off like a ****ing boss.

The film versions of Magneto are significantly weaker than his comic book counterparts. I'm sure they could make this happen but they'd have to depower Apoc a bit as well.

[Gravedigger]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

The film versions of Magneto are significantly weaker than his comic book counterparts. I'm sure they could make this happen but they'd have to depower Apoc a bit as well.

Spoiler!

I dunno, in this film lifting the stadium and when Ian MacKellan lifted the ship and threw it into the crowd of Sentinels so Storm could light the fuse, and then stopping the shrapnel from hitting the rest of the Xmen was pretty damn sweet. Of course he did miss that one piece of shrapnel but I think Magneto was the most impressive mutant out of the bunch in DoFP. Blink was cool, but Magneto was a boss.

[ThaVirus]

Originally Posted by Gravedigger

Spoiler!

I dunno, in this film lifting the stadium and when Ian MacKellan lifted the ship and threw it into the crowd of Sentinels so Storm could light the fuse, and then stopping the shrapnel from hitting the rest of the Xmen was pretty damn sweet. Of course he did miss that one piece of shrapnel but I think Magneto was the most impressive mutant out of the bunch in DoFP. Blink was cool, but Magneto was a boss.

Magneto does have some very impressive showings in the films, and I actually think the only reason he missed that one piece of shrapnel in DoFP is because it was that advanced polymer bullshit that the sentinels were made of.. In the comics, though, he's like a god. He can create force fields and even has low level telepathy.

I think, in the X Men cinematic universe so far, the most powerful in order:

Jean Grey as The Phoenix, Professor X, Sebastian Shaw, Quicksilver, then Magneto.

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by Wallcrawler

You honestly believe that there were ANY stories between those two that are worthy of the big screen?

Hm.

I really liked the Inferno crossover but doubt that'd ever see the big screen.

The Genosha story that ended up brother vs. brother wasn't bad.

And I honestly liked Havok much better with the X-Men than cyclops...

[Halfcan]

Saw X men over the weekend. Now I understand the title-we have seen this same movie many times. So glad we got to see Wolverine's ass-always nice to throw that in with so many kids going to see this. I am sure that is for all the women out there that were drug to this movie by their comic book geek boyfriends-at least they had some eye candy.

Nice special effects, but very predictable. Plus they leave it with all the characters in tact so they can make 20 more of these.

3 Stars out of 5

Would have been 5 stars if Wolverine would have cut Nixon's head off.

[immem58]

Eventually, these massive comic book movies are going to incorporate so many characters that the actors will essentially do 6 hours of hair and makeup to say "He's getting away!"

If I were an actor like Fassbender or Jennifer Lawrence or any of the others who have critical acclaim, I'd have a hard time justifying spending my time doing hollow action movie role after hollow action movie role.

How much money does J-law need, anyway? She doesn't have to do this shit. I mean, not that it's actually shit, but you get the point. She's a star doing ensemble work. I don't get it.

[OldSchool]

Originally Posted by immem58

Eventually, these massive comic book movies are going to incorporate so many characters that the actors will essentially do 6 hours of hair and makeup to say "He's getting away!"

If I were an actor like Fassbender or Jennifer Lawrence or any of the others who have critical acclaim, I'd have a hard time justifying spending my time doing hollow action movie role after hollow action movie role.

How much money does J-law need, anyway? She doesn't have to do this shit. I mean, not that it's actually shit, but you get the point. She's a star doing ensemble work. I don't get it.

Meh, I don't really care about star power. They could cast a bunch of nobodies and I would be fine with it as long as those actors+actresses portrayed their characters in a convincing manner.

[bowener]

Originally Posted by immem58

Eventually, these massive comic book movies are going to incorporate so many characters that the actors will essentially do 6 hours of hair and makeup to say "He's getting away!"

If I were an actor like Fassbender or Jennifer Lawrence or any of the others who have critical acclaim, I'd have a hard time justifying spending my time doing hollow action movie role after hollow action movie role.

How much money does J-law need, anyway? She doesn't have to do this shit. I mean, not that it's actually shit, but you get the point. She's a star doing ensemble work. I don't get it.

You'd find it easy to turn down millions of dollars for a few months of work that is most likely quite fun and enjoyable? Jennifer Lawrence had the most important character in the film based on the plot.

[Jamie]

Originally Posted by immem58

Eventually, these massive comic book movies are going to incorporate so many characters that the actors will essentially do 6 hours of hair and makeup to say "He's getting away!"

If I were an actor like Fassbender or Jennifer Lawrence or any of the others who have critical acclaim, I'd have a hard time justifying spending my time doing hollow action movie role after hollow action movie role.

How much money does J-law need, anyway? She doesn't have to do this shit. I mean, not that it's actually shit, but you get the point. She's a star doing ensemble work. I don't get it.

They got locked into multi-picture deals when they did First Class. I don't remember where Fassbender's career was then, but all Jennifer Lawrence had done at that point was Winter's Bone.

She probably could have gotten out of it if she really wanted to (and I'm guessing that leverage is why she got to wear a bodysuit instead of paint), but if she sticks with it she could get a Downey-in-Avengers type payday down the line.