X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

[The Laughing Fish]

I really, really hope they won't mess up this one, because Vaughn's First Class was great and deserves a good sequel.

Sorry to say, Fox, IMHO, have no clue how to do comic-book movies (especially if the rumours concerning the Fantastic Four and Daredevil reboots are anything to go by). 

The Daredevil rights have gone back to Marvel Studios as of this April.
http://au.ign.com/articles/2013/04/23/marvel-studios-confirms-it-has-daredevil-rights-back

[phantom stranger]

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[phantom stranger]

I really, really hope they won't mess up this one, because Vaughn's First Class was great and deserves a good sequel.

Sorry to say, Fox, IMHO, have no clue how to do comic-book movies (especially if the rumours concerning the Fantastic Four and Daredevil reboots are anything to go by). 

The Daredevil rights have gone back to Marvel Studios as of this April.
http://au.ign.com/articles/2013/04/23/marvel-studios-confirms-it-has-daredevil-rights-back

Not to divert the thread but I kind of wish the rights stayed with Fox. That Joe Carnahan concept sounded really cool:

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Watch-What-Joe-Carnahan-Daredevil-Would-Have-Looked-Like-32482.html

And it's not like Marvel's going to use the character anytime soon...

[greggbray]

My biggest issue with the X-Verse is how virtually none of it lines up.  For my money, the 2 best of the series are X-Men, and X-Men:First Class.  I enjoyed X:FC in the theaters so much I attempted a double feature of XFC and X-Men some time in the past year, and even then the story presented in XFC is far different than the the backstory revealed in X-Men's exposition.  (X-Position?)

I'm not too excited about any of the new X-features at this point.  Unless they wipe the slate entirely clean (no 'vague backstory' thank you, just a reboot) and start over. 

[phantom stranger]

Perhaps Singer's film will explain the continuity errors as being some sort of lapse in the time-space continuum?

[The Laughing Fish]

Perhaps Singer's film will explain the continuity errors as being some sort of lapse in the time-space continuum?

It has been suggested that Days of Future Past will erase some 'continuity errors' - which might mean pretending that The Last Stand and Origins may not have happened. Or like you said, happened in some kind of multiverse timeline.  I'm not fussed either way. It will have to take a lot of convincing for me to bother trying to see it.

[johnnygobbs]

Does anyone know what the thinking behind Peter Dinklage's casting as Bolivar Trask is?

I'm a massive Dinklage fan and I appreciate casting that is outside the box but ultimately in a comic-book movie that deals head-on with genetic differences one can't ignore the fact that Trask will be played by a dwarf.  On the face of it, it seems bizarre that someone who would have experienced discrimination throughout his entire life because of his own genetic 'abnormality' should be the man responsible for creating robots designed to root out and destroy the Mutants.  Perhaps Trask feels bitter towards the super-powered Mutants in view of his own disability but regardless of Trask's reasons for hating the Mutants, or at least inadvertently being the one potentially responsible for their destruction, I hope Dinklage's dwarfism is not treated as incidental to the story, as PC as that may seem, because I simply find it hard to believe that a dwarf would not make any parallels between his own experiences and those of the Mutants.

[The Laughing Fish]

Since Bolivar Trask already appeared in The Last Stand, does this contradict the franchise's continuity further? Or will TLS be forgotten altogether? 

[johnnygobbs]

Since Bolivar Trask already appeared in The Last Stand, does this contradict the franchise's continuity further? Or will TLS be forgotten altogether?

Another reason why the current X-Man series annoys me.  What is it with Bryan Singer thinking he can make sequels which ask the audience to undergo collective amnesia with respect to the last few instalments? 

Is Cyclops in the new film?  If not then I assume that his death in The Last Stand is still 'canon'.

[Edd Grayson]

Singer doesn't have a clue about comic book films. I fear he'll ruin this one.