The cast of the original X-Men trilogy (including Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry) join the X-Men: First Class cast (James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence) for X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Director Bryan Singer teases why the next X-Men film is the most exciting yet and the category of sequel or prequel doesn’t quite describe it.
“It’s not just another X-Men film; it’s not just about the combined cast as there will be certain technologies and other stuff that we haven’t seen before in the X-Men films,” Singer tells SFX.
“There are also issues of time and we’re messing about with that,” He says of the inclusion of some of the cast from the original trilogy, “I think we’ve got it figured out. I pitched it to James Cameron when I was in New Zealand last year and he said, ‘Yes, that makes sense.’”
“We wanted an opportunity to bring some of the favorite older and younger characters together,” says Singer.
The new film is inspired by the classic Chris Claremont story in which X-Men of a dark future try to change the past.
“We also wanted to play with the notion of different times and stuff like the way that time affects destinies. It enables the film to not just be a sequel to First Class or X-Men 3 but to actually be its own thing.”
Filming is underway now for a July 2014 release.
By Editor