The new trailer for X-Men: Days of Future Past is here via YouTube.
Director Bryan Singer unites the cast of X-Men: First Class with the original X trilogy in a film based on the classic story by Chris Claremont.
In 2023 Professor X (Patrick Stewart) Magneto (Ian McKellen) and surviving X-Men (Halle Berry, Daniel Cudmore, Ellen Page, Shawn Ashmore, Anna Paquin) send Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) back to the 1970’s to change history.
Logan confronts young Charles (James McAvoy) and Magneto (Michael Fassbender) to unite and prevent a war that will decimate the mutant race but the one person who may not veer from her path is Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence.)
James McAvoy reprises his X-Men: First Class role as Professor Charles Xavier in X-Men: Days of Future Past. The star praises the upcoming film and director in a new interview with IGN.
“There’s an army of brilliant actors in that film. Bryan Singer is back at the helm. Potentially it’s going to be the biggest, most epic X-Men they’ve ever had. I think it’s the second biggest production Fox have ever embarked upon, behind Avatar. So they’re definitely going for it. Continue reading James McAvoy on X-MEN DAYS OF FUTURE PAST
Like Bruce Banner transforming into the Hulk, Emerald City Comicon is getting bigger! The Seattle celebration of comic books, science fiction and gaming takes over the entire Washington State Convention Center this year giving eager fans more celebrities, more panels and more everything!
Sci-Fi legends Sir Patrick Stewart (Star Trek: The Next Generation, X-Men) Gillian Anderson (The X-Files) Walter Koeing (Star Trek) Billy Dee Williams (Star Wars) and Christopher LLoyd (Back to the Future, Star Trek: The Search for Spock) will shine for adoring fans in panels, photograph and autograph sessions where they could how about a real life space traveler? Astronaut Clayton “Clay” Anderson will be appearing in the ECCC Kids! area.
Adam West as Batman, courtesy Emerald City Comicon
Pop Culture Icons Adam West and Burt Ward (Television’s Batman and Robin) are sure to inspire huge lines. Television’s Dynamic Duo will appear at a screening of the Batman film at Seattle’s Cinerama on Thursday night before the con begins and the Mayor will declare Mayor Adam West Day in Seattle in honor of the Walla Walla, Washington native.
The Walking Dead is killing it on television! Stars of the zombie comic book turned smash series Danai Gurira (Michonne) and Michael Rooker (Merle Dixon) will face the hordes of fanatic fans. The Walking Dead artist Charlie Adlard will be appearing too. True Blood star Kristin Bauer, Dirk Benedict of Battlestar Galactica, Michael Shanks of Stargate and Misha Collins of Supernatural are among many other television actors shining for the fans.
Uncanny X-Men #135 cover courtesy Marvel.com. Art by John Byrne
Along with the stellar roster of celebrities folks can meet comic book legends who have made uncanny impacts on the heroes we see on the big screen. I’m most excited to meet Chris Claremont, writer of the X-Men series and creator of characters like Gambit, Emma Frost, Rogue, Sabretooth and Kitty Pryde. Claremont wrote my first comic book, Uncanny X-Men #116, and his work on the mutants is the comic book equivalent to the soundtrack of my life! The man gave us The Dark Phoenix Saga and Days of Future Past, inspiration for the upcoming X-Men sequel!
Denny O’Neil is another living legend famous for his runs on the Green Lantern/Green Arrow and Batman series with fellow guest Neal Adams. O’Neil was the Marvel editor of Frank Miller’s classic Daredevil run and returned to DC as editor of the Batman family of books to oversee modern classics Continue reading Emerald City Comicon 2013 Preview
Director Bryan Singer revealed Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen will join the cast of X-Men: Days of Future Past.
“Thrilled to announce @ianmckellen118 & @SirPatStew are joining the cast of #XMEN #DaysofFuturePast #magneto #professorX More to come…”
Stewart and McKellen played Professor Xavier and Magneto in the first X-Men trilogy. Singer recently replaced X-Men: First Class helmer Matthew Vaughn as director of the sequel that will be based on the classic story by Chris Claremont and John Byrne.
Uncanny X-Men #141 courtesy Marvel.com
In Days of Future Past the surviving X-Men of the future send Kitty Pryde (Rasputin) into the body of her past self to rally the X-Men of that era to prevent an assassination. The murder leads to an apocalyptic future in which Sentinels rule North America and have killed or imprisoned all mutants and superheroes.
This storyline leaves open the opportunity for Hugh Jackman (and other members of the original trilogy cast) to join the cast since a much older Wolverine leads the underground resistance movement in the dark future.
This is UNCANNY, ASTONISHING news! I would love to see Ian McKellen and Michael Fassbender in scenes together as the once and future Master of Magnetism!
In earlier tweet Singer officially welcomed back James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult to the film.
Emerald City Comicon announced the first celebrity guest for 2013 and it’s huge! Sir Patrick Stewart of Star Trek: The Next Generation and X-Men will appear at the Seattle con March 1-3, 2013. He will be appearing Saturday and Sunday only.
Emerald City Comicon shattered records with over 53,000 attendees at the Washington State Convention Center.
Hellboy creator Mike Mignola will be returning to ECCC in 2013.
Back to gushing about Sir Patrick Stewart…I love Captain Jean Luc Picard and no one else could have played Professor Xavier but I also remember him as Gurney Halleck in Dune. “Gurney Man” is one of my favorite characters in my all time favorite sci-fi book. Say what you will about David Lynch’s version but Stewart was perfection as the brave warrior for the Atreides.
Starfleet HQ calls San Francisco home but London will become the center of the Trek universe this Fall! All 5 Star Trek television Captains will appear on stage together for the first time at the official convention Destination Star Trek London.
William Shatner, Sir Patrick Stewart, Avery Books, Kate Mulgrew and Scott Bakula will unite on stage for the event October 19th-21st at the Excel Exhibition Center, London.
Beam me to London!
I was lucky to meet and have a photo op with the amazing Kate Mulgrew in Seattle. The former Captain Kathryn Janeway was in the Emerald City performing her one woman play, Tea at Five in which she played Katherine Hepburn.
The cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation 1987 photo by Gene Trindl courtesy mptvimages.com
Star Trek: The Next Generation fans engage to the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo. Event organizers scored a major geek coup: the first ever reunion of the principal cast. This stellar event will mark the 25th Anniversary of the series.
Sir Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Levar Burton, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Michael Dorn, Brent Spiner, Will Wheaton, Denise Crosby will appear at Star Trek TNG EXPOsed, a special ticketed event on April 28 at the Stampede Corral.
“A lot of guys in the entertainment industry are looking at (the Calgary Comic Expo) now and thinking ‘How the hell did they pull that off?’ It’s like the little engine that could, right?” said founder Kandrix Foong.
Congratulations to the Calgary Comic Expo team for this huge gift for Star Trek fans! It is cool and weird that southern Alberta would be the location for this reunion. Although I admit I once visited beautiful Calgary in December when it was 20 below zero and it felt like I was breathing on an ice planet.
William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Will Wheaton, Jonathan Frakes and Brent Spiner have been at my hometown’s excellent event and Emerald City Comicon welcomes George Takei this year.
