A plethora of mutants make appearances in the third trailer for X-Men: Days of Future Past. Logan tries his best to explain the plot of the movie to past-Charles: essentially it boils down to “the Sentinels are bad,” but we all knew that already, right? We’re still not convinced that Logan is the best choice for this mission, but it sure is fun watching him interact with—and occasionally punch—the old (young?) gang!
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I swear, it’s like Amazing Spider-Man, the more trailers that are released, the less I want to see it.
Why is Xavier walking? Wasn’t he paralized in First Class? Also, why is Hank not blue and hairy?
It depends on how far back “in the past” this all happens I guess. I don’t recall the storyline in the comics. There’s a shot of Wolverine with bone claws instead of metal, so… uh… I don’t know what that means timeline-wise.
I’m with you though – not terribly interested in any Spidey or X-Men movies anymore.
There was another promotion, 25moments.com, that has made this even MOAR confusing.
2018 Storm in 1991 South Africa.
Xavier standing while talking to Wolverine, with bone claws, when I thought it HAD to be Wolverine instead of Kitty because Wolverine had a body in the past.
Sentinels in 1970’s but this is the same continuity as the Attack on Alcatraz, so why did we never see the Sentinels before?
With images/footage seen of 1973!Xavier both with & without the wheelchair and 1973!Hank both with and without the fur, I expect there to be explanations in the film that the trailers just don’t have time for (Beast will easily be a telepathic or technological shield to hide behind).
As for the choice of Wolverine, I still think that it’s a good choice of characters, given the choice of the fifty-year jump from ~1973 and 20XX in the movie. First off, Kitty or other fan-preferred choices aren’t alive in the past to have a body to be telepathically-projected into (since the movie is apparently keeping the same conceit as the comics of being projected into one’s past body rather than being physically sent back), so that limits the choice of characters.
Since the idea of this film on the meta level for a general audience is having actors from both FIRST CLASS and the original trilogy, that would mean selecting a character & actor who’s appeared in both (rather than, say, having a character/actor from on time appear in the other for the first time). Likewise, it’s easier for a casual audience member to follow Hugh Jackman in two time periods with just different hair & claws (since Wolverine is mostly unchanged over that timespan) versus jumping between two actors.
Plus, by having Jackman’s Wolverine as the main travelling character, the parallels between Stewart/MacAvoy and McKellen/Fassbender become more of a treat — think of how cool LOOPER’s Willis/Gordon-Levitt scenes were on account of being spaced out instead of being the entire movie.
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They’ve already explained Beast, he’s the Hulk now, and only expresses his bestial form when angry.
The “continuity” of the Fox X-men movies is so screwed up, they should have just scrapped it all and just done a comic-accurate Days of Future Past movie.
And that’s my main problem with this, actually (and I acknowledge, it’s the nerdiest of nerd rages), but if you’re going to call this movie DoFP, it should be DoFP. Period. The previous movies borrowed elements and themes from many popular X-Men stories and amalgamated them with varying degrees of success. But it was fine because none of them claimed to be God Loves, Man Kills or The Dark Phoenix Saga, etc.
DoFP is a classic X-Men story, pure and simple, its beloved by millions of X-Men fans, and the fact they’re going with that title for this… thing, well, it annoys me.
No one would ever suggest making a Romeo & Juliet movie, only Tibalt is going to replace Romeo as the lead, and its also going to star Iago, Hypolita, Hamlet, Ophelia, Balthasar, Macbeth, Banquo, Henry VIII, Ariel, Caliban (heheh), and Shylock for somereason. Because taht would be dumb. To (nerdy) me, this is the same thing.
It’s odd how a two-issue side storyline thrown in after the lengths of “The Pheonix Saga” and “The Dark Pheonix Saga” became so famous mostly on account of having really good covers and finally giving new teen-character Kitty something to do. Of course, then the books spent decades throwing eight-issue “Days of Future [Adjective]” stories at us to drown us in time travel.
I don’t see anyone talking about how the Senator Kelly attack plotline was already taken away and used in the first movie more than a decade ago. As such, given the existence of two timeframes already in concurrent X-Men films, having the telepathic time-travel device that’s been milked to death over thirty years of comics appear in a film doesn’t seem any more problematic as long as the film is any good. It can’t affect the comics any worse than X2 did, selling itself on “God Loves, Man Kills” and starting a decade of grimdark Church Templar mutant-hunting as it tried to rectify Soldier Stryker with Reverand Stryker.
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As for this trailer itself (having commented on characters and concepts of the film), I can see what the studio is going for. Up until now, the selling point has been to market to the comics fan and the sci-fi audience, with the visual look and “Where’s Waldo” nature of previous trailers. This one is directly narrative, giving a low-down on the concept more focused on the earlier era (versus a focus on 20XX in previous ones) and on character relationships to target a broader audience — those that might often wait for reviews or catch a film on Netflix versus the faithful Day One crowd.
It’s telling that the reaction on genre sites it all about cross-film continuity and relationship to the comics rather than any further reaction to theme or use of the era (I know that my own appreciation of FIRST CLASS, for example, was as a period piece, and my major critiques were of its deviations in the historcity of the American and Russian navies at the time of the Bay of Pigs)… ;)
I feel that it needs a gravelly-voiced man telling me what sort of world it is set in to make it complete.
@7. bhaughwout
You know, you’re right, I never really thought about how they already did the “kill senator Kelly” plot point that’s ripped directly from DoFP. I think part of my displeasure is that I’m more bent out of shape in general at every studio that’s not Marvel right now.
It seems like Fox, Sony and Warner Brothers are all trying to be Marvel studios and make another Avengers without putting in any of the work (or taking any of the risk) that Marvel Studios took. Instead its just “lets cram as many characters as humanly possible into our next movie, whether it makes sense or not”. And that’s annoying, because I care about these characters, and would love to see an X-Men or Spider-Man movie on par with what Marvel Studios has given us, and for whatever reason, they just can’t do it.
It occurs to me though, since so-called “geek culture” has been dictating what is cool lately anyway, the only real way for Fox or Sony to score points with the hardcores would be to do a movie thats a comic-faithful adaption. The fanboys and girls will rave about it and, as long as its even a decent movie, the general public will fall in line.
Thankfully I was on an X-Men hiatus when the falout from the movies started affecting the books… I enacted a (belated) X-Book embargo after re-reading Claremonts entire run around 2003ish and getting pissed off that Harras sided with Jim Lee over him. Nerd rage can be really irrational and silly sometimes.
From everything I’ve seen, it’s the Kennedy assassination that sparks it.
Well, I think it looks super-fun.
I was a huge fan of Uncanny X-Men back in the mid to late nineties. I was there for Storm cutting out Marrow’s heart and Sabretooth ripping Psylocke apart. I was there for the Onslaught and Dark Phoenix sagas and I gotta tell you: I LOVE X-Men and X2. I mean they’re movie adaptations and movie adaptations will always need to exist within the parameters of how stories are told through film. The cartoon X-Men had it’s own take on things… why can’t the films? I’m super pumped is all.
This does look like a lot of fun! And take it from a Trekkie, don’t get hung up on “continuity”; you’ll be a lot happier. As long as it maintains the tone and message from previous installments, it’ll do fine by me.
Needs more Dinklage.
(Doesn’t everything?)
Bone claws? In the last Wolverine movie, I think his admantium claws were sheared off by the bad guy. Maybe he never got them back.