X-Men Days of Future Past 2014
Director Bryan Singer returns to the franchise he launched
with 2000's X-Men and the sequel X2 — and with a $200 million-plus budget,
making X-Men Days of Future Past the priciest and most complicated X-Men Film to
date.
It's not hard to see
where the money went: Past, in which a distant-future Wolverine (Hugh Jackman)
is sent back to the '70s to prevent war, combines the casts of both the first
X-Men trilogy (Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry, etc.) and
2011's prequel X-Men: First Class (James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer
Lawrence) in a time-travel story involving two time periods, six countries, and
hundreds of giant killer robots.
''We have to deliver,
and that's really hard,'' says Lauren Shuler Donner, who's produced all of the
X-Men films. ''Plus, we don't use guns, we use powers. The power is a visual
effect. So by its very nature it's going to be pricey.''
Past aims to boost X-Men's fortunes by bringing back marquee
stars such as Jackman and Berry as well as younger ones like Lawrence and
Fassbender whose profiles have risen in recent years. ''The hope is that Days
of Future Past will broaden the audience for X-Men such that it will motivate
potential spin-offs even more,'' Kinberg says.
In the X-Men fan community, the comic story line ''Days of
Future Past,'' written in 1980 by Chris Claremont and John Byrne, is hallowed
ground. It imagines the time-traveling brain of Kitty Pryde and a desolate
future in which X-Men are hunted by machines called Sentinels.
When captured, the mutants are either killed or placed in
internment camps. It seemed like the perfect vehicle for a film that could link
Stewart and McKellen with the First Class cast.
There was just one seemingly insurmountable problem: In the
X-Men movieverse, present-day Kitty is played by 27-year-old Ellen Page. So in
the movie version of Past, it's gruff, unaging Wolverine who returns to his
1973 body to stop Mystique (Lawrence) from assassinating the inventor of the
Sentinels, Bolivar Trask (Game of Thrones' Peter Dinklage).
Keeping Trask alive prevents a devastating war between
mutants and humans — and keeps Mystique among the do-gooding mutants. As
Kinberg explains, ''A lot of people have an emotional investment in her not
going to the dark side
.'' Speaking of dark sides, Wolverine must also unite
frenemies Erik (Fassbender), who's been (wrongly?) imprisoned for the JFK
assassination, and Charles (McAvoy), now a drugged-up recluse living with Hank,
a.k.a. blue-furred Beast (Nicholas Hoult). Says McAvoy, ''Wolverine has to help
me figure out who I really am, what I really want in life, and what I'm willing
to sacrifice to get that.''
The film cuts back and forth in time, but the majority of
Past takes place, appropriately, in the past
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