The seventh entry in the X-Men franchise has hit online, ‘Days of Future Past’, and it promises to have, frankly, ALL the X-Men you can imagine in one film, from the series started by returning director Bryan Singer and the younger-series First Class directed by Matthew Vaughn who returns here as a producer.
Though it may seem to not make sense entirely from the trailer, which features a lot of dramatic declarations from Magneto played by Ian McKellan and Michael Fassbender and Professor Charles Xavier played by Patrick Stewart and James McAvoy, it’s really a time travel movie where the older X-Men send Wolverine back in time to try and stop a cataclysmic event from happening with the X-Men in the 1970’s. Peter Dinklage is one of the new members of the cast playing Bolivar Trask.
The original comic book series, bringing to light for the first time the character Kitty Pryde and played in the film series by Ellen Page, is among the most highly acclaimed runs in X-Men history. It was written as the epilogue to the other classic ‘Dark Phoenix’ saga, also serving as the basis for the last full original cast X-Men movie Last Stand, and interestingly was set in the future in the year 2013 – when this latest installment was shot. Even today it ranks up among the , and the robotic sentinels were even featured as early as the first episodes in the 1990’s X-Men animated TV show.
Check out the trailer for the film below. Excited for new-old X-Men in the ultimate team-up – Please let us know what you think on Twitter at . You can also follow us now on our new .