Bryan Singer will direct 'X-Men: Days of Future Past'
Source: EW
Like a wayward Wolverine, Bryan Singer is returning to the X-Men fold, closing a deal Tuesday to direct the next film in the franchise, X-Men: Days of Future Past, EW has confirmed. He replaces X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn, who stepped back from the director's chair last week for unspecified reasons, though he will reportedly stay on as a producer and screenwriter.
After helming 2000′s X-Men and 2003′s X2 (regarded as one of the best superhero movies of the last 12 years), Singer left the franchise to make 2006′s Superman Returns for Warner Bros. He actually returned to the world of Charles Xavier and Eric Lehnsherr as a producer of X-Men: First Class, also earning a "story by" credit for the script. Days of Future Past is nominally a sequel to that film, which starred James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, and Jennifer Lawrence as younger versions of Prof. X, Magneto, and Mystique, respectively — and all three actors are expected to return for Days of Future Past. But given the prospective time-traveling comic book source material and Singer's own comments about bringing some Marvel-style "connectivity" to the franchise, the filmmaker could be calling on some of the actors from his earlier X-Men films to make a cameo or three.
The film is due to begin production early next year, and arrive in theaters on July 18, 2014.
Hugh Jackman in Talks to Reprise Wolverine in New 'X-Men' Movie (Exclusive)
The actor would join original trilogy stars Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen in Bryan Singer's film, which also stars James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult.
Source: THR
Director Bryan Singer continues to merge past and present X-Men actors for Fox's X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Sources confirm that Hugh Jackman is in negotiations to reprise his Wolverine role in the movie, which is ostensibly a sequel to X-Men: First Class but will prominently feature actors from the first X-Men trilogy (the first two of which Singer directed).
Singer announced Monday that Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen -- who portrayed X-Men founder Professor Charles Xavier and renegade mutant leader Magneto, respectively, in the original X-Men movies -- are joining First Class actors James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult.
Days of Future Past is a classic storyline that unfolded in two issues of Marvel Comics' Uncanny X-Men in 1981, from writer Chris Claremont and artists John Byrne and Terry Austin. The story was partially set in an alternate future where surviving mutants have been penned in concentration camps, giant robots called Sentinels patrol America, and most of the X-Men have been hunted and killed. In the present day, the X-Men were forced to stop a key event from unfolding in order to keep that future from occurring.
Seeds of a tie-in between the trilogies were sown when Jackman memorably cameoed as Wolverine in First Class. The fanboy world began speculating about Jackman's possible return once news broke that Stewart and McKellen were returning. Jackman recently wrapped production on The Wolverine, a sequel to X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
The actor, repped by WME and Sloane Offer, is about to open Les Miserables, which is generating massive amounts of Oscar talk.
Bryan Singer Eyes Peter Dinklage For 'X-Men: Days Of Future Past'
BY MIKE FLEMING JR | Deadline
EXCLUSIVE: For X-Men: Days Of Future Past, director Bryan Singer has assembled a collision of his original X-Men cast with the returning cast of X-Men First Class, but here's an intriguing development: I hear he's bringing in Game Of Thrones star Peter Dinklage into the mix for a key role. Dinklage won an Emmy for his work as Tyrion Lannister, arguably the only sane member of that sordid royal clan. Singer has become infatuated with announcing his cast through Twitter (he's got everyone from Jennifer Lawrence to Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen and James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender in the mix), but I'll try to find out what role Dinklage will play.
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ok for sure. let's see it together, a, or b, you can tell me about this. sounds fun. how will this compete with the captain?? mystery
I quite liked the first one. Combining the two franchises seems like a bad idea. The main draw for First Class was McAvoy and Fassbender and their relationship. If this becomes another Wolverine fest, I'm gonna be pissed.
This one has some interesting ideas, I really hope it works (and has a lot of McAvoy/Fassbender).
Watching for Fassbender/McAvoy/and the Sentinels.
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'X-Men' Director Bryan Singer Accused of Sexually Abusing Teenage Boy (http://variety.com/2014/film/news/x-men-director-accused-of-sexually-abusing-teenage-boy-1201158645/)
Classic Bryan.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001741/board/thread/206514215?p=1
Still not the most heinous act committed by a director of an X-Men sequel.
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surprisingly resonant drama about a bunch of weirdos who can do cool things and the jealous people who either want that or can't get over not having it.
james mcavoy is something else. he brings such a palpable sense of xavier's past into his performance that we barely need any exposition, even though this movie is built on the foundation of SIX other movies!! the triangle of love, hate, and regret between him, magneto and mystique is so freaking powerful because you can feel it emanating from the core of his being. fassbender is equally impressive at lending gravity to the mediocre dialogue, but he has less complicated stuff to do.
there is at least one bad decision from a writing, directing or acting perspective in nearly every scene. eg. wolverine wakes up in the past, which is clearly established by dozens of obvious 70s visuals, then he literally tells us he's woken up in the past. just in case we're idiots. all these easily avoidable choices are minor, but they culminate in a general sense of dumbness that can be hard to shake.
in spite of that, the story/motivations/themes are all well constructed. i was almost never bored. there's a good variety of action/soap/winky comedy/x-metaphors. it's a good time.
*vague spoilers*
i really wish a KEY decision near the end had been better justified by the story. it comes off as strictly emotional and doesn't really make any sense when you think about the character/situation for more than a few seconds. nothing actually causes them to make that choice. they just do. because piano music.
the fast guy should have been in the whole movie. it makes absolutely no sense that he's only there for a bit. i want a whole movie of him changing stuff in slow motion. he deserves a spinoff more than wolverine.
This movie begins well, then rush everything as if its parents had yelled at him to go home. Pleasant but underwhelming. I appreciate their will to try something intimate, linked to the character, their choices. But everything feels artificial. The ending does. It's wheeled to work; not thrilling a second.
Quicksliver has a GREAT scene, though.
I actually think the "past" scenes are what make the movie work for me. The first few minutes with all that 3D-CGI crap fest I was feeling completely desperate thinking I had gone to watch a giant video game. Fortunately it turned better after that, even though I really didn't care for anything that took place in the "future" which felt artificial and ugly and poorly edited and acted. I don't really care for the X-Men anyway even though I only haven't seen The Wolverine, so for a completely neutral viewer, this was entertaining enough, but don't think I'll ever watch it again.
I enjoyed the opening action scenes with Blink.
Then came super-exposition, and very dry, plot-driven words spoken from characters that just seemed like re-tread ground meant to see them as "people who feel". Okay.
Near the beginning, I felt they kept on cutting at certain points to remind us that "this is supposed to be exciting!" They even committed this terrible crime of cutting away from Peter Dinklage in the middle of his dialogue! WTF mate!?
It also felt like certain characters never interacted, or were underused. Did Wolverine or Magneto ever really connect, or just appear onscreen together?
This movie was better than the last 4 x-men, though, even though Matthew Vaughn came close. If anything, Singer has a good grasp on style. Those moments where Mystique was shot using "stock film" were kinda cool. McAvoy and Hoult had an unspoken chemistry onscreen that I found entertaining. And, well....the slo-mo part. Just plain fun.
****SPPOOOOILLLER TERRIITTTORRRYYYY****
Hell, I'll even say that I hate the winks-and-nods to previous chapters that most prequel/sequels throw in, and think that filmmakers have used them as a crutch ever since Episode I. Dumb. But I felt there was a certain validity to including cameos with the original cast towards the end there.
Luckily the movie learned how to relax and just tell a story, and although I still find aspects of it were clunky and uninspired, it didn't dash my hopes like Ratner or Gavin Hood managed to.
I didn't get a lot of it because I've missed out on a few movies I think. the slow mo scene was fun, but I liked Spiderman 2's version of it better. I liked what the movie wanted to do, but I don't feel like it got pulled off. all of the fight scenes were hoaky and clunky, and all of the displays of the power seemed underwhelming. it seemed like a trailer for Quicksurfer and not much else. I liked that the movie wanted to solve problems via dialogue, which was last attempted (and succeeded) in The Dark Knight (vs joker) but I don't know, something felt missing.
Generally enjoyable. First one was better. Was rather messy though and they had some annoying exposition parts. Past scenes were obviously better, but future scenes were cool in an brutal way. Thankfully, the presence of Wolverine didn't completely unbalance the film, McAvoy was (mostly) at the centre of it- and he did a fantastic job. Lawrence's performance was...bad. Fassbender was his good self though his role seemed lessened. I liked Beast's prominence as well.
Future Sentinels were very cool and really did come across as insurmountable foes.
SPOILERS
Ending was really, really happy. I did appreciate it but I wonder how they're going to unravel it for the apocalyptic final film in the trilogy (if the timeline is consistent)- post credits scene was effective.
Now that they've had their nice little reunion with the old cast, they can stick with just McAvoy and Fassbender again (the way it should be). Seriously no idea why they got rid of Pietro halfway through the film, felt so sudden and forced, he was very entertaining.