X-MEN: Days Of Future Past (Casting, Rumors, Pics till release)

[Set Harth]

I think Singer means he's going to try and fix some of the continuity errors that have arose in the films starting with X-Men: The Last Stand, being carried over with X-Men Origins: Wolverine and continuing with X-Men: First Class.

But aside from the ones I mentioned, which I think it's fair to say DOFP is unlikely to address given what we know about it so far, those things weren't continuity errors until First Class made them continuity errors. They didn't arise with The Last Stand to be carried over with Origins. There was nothing to carry over.

Yes, it becomes apparent Xavier's consciousness was transferred to someone in the end credits tag in X-Men: The Last Stand, but that scene was really vague and I'm not sure how many people know that... if they even stuck around for that scene after the credits.

I've noticed the TV cable networks never show that scene when they show the film, even though they always seem to show the after-credits scene in Iron Man.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Remember when First Class came out the question everyone had was if it was going to reboot the whole series. That is still a possibility. We could see the older actors play the X-men in the dark future and/or also in changed future which looks more hopeful at the end. But in fixing the past the whole history of the could be rewritten.

 

[Admiral_Young]

Showcase here plays the end credit sequence. It's obvious that Ratner, Kinberg and Penn took the double Xavier from Morrison's Cassandra Nova story line. I'd be immensely intrigued if Singer decided to do this But I doubt it.

 

[Gaith]

Remember when First Class came out the question everyone had was if it was going to reboot the whole series. That is still a possibility. We could see the older actors play the X-men in the dark future and/or also in changed future which looks more hopeful at the end. But in fixing the past the whole history of the could be rewritten.

Dude. That could actually be it! If not a complete ignoring of The Last Stand, at most a mere passing mentioning, and then a total retconning/undoing. I like it.

 

[Nagisa Furukawa]

I'm hoping and praying whatever change happens to the timeline, the film ends with Scott Summers still alive.

 

[Admiral_Young]

Well like I said on the last page that picture of the cast photo headshots...had four empty slots

 

[Set Harth]

If not a complete ignoring of The Last Stand, at most a mere passing mentioning

I think it's too late for that.

Remember when First Class came out the question everyone had was if it was going to reboot the whole series.

As I recall, the appearances of Jackman and Romijn were taken as evidence to the contrary, and a lot of people argued that the continuity problems could be explained or rationalized in various ways. But as we've seen in Star Trek, a "reboot" through time travel isn't the same thing as a Batman Begins-style reboot in which you completely start from scratch with an entirely different cast and the preceding films are assumed to have never happened at all.

 

[Gaith]

If not a complete ignoring of The Last Stand, at most a mere passing mentioning

I think it's too late for that.

Not at all. Consider the Back to the Future series: once Marty takes his first trip into the past, we never again see the original timeline, only the dark timeline, the improved timeline, and the really improved (or so we hope) timeline. In Parts II and III, moreover, we never see the original timeline at all.

So, if X:TLS was the original timeline, DOFP could start with the arrival of a traveler from the dark future, and, thanks to his/her meddling, the cast could repair things more than they intend, setting up an improved non-original timeline in which X3 is all but forgotten... forever.

 

[Set Harth]

Consider the Back to the Future series

I try not to. Especially due to the fact that it hypnotized an entire generation into thinking that time travel must work in incredibly stupid ways. Including time travel in... other franchises.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

He said he was going to fix the continuity errors that have plagued the series starting with X-Men: The Last Stand and perpetuated with X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

But there weren't any noteworthy continuity errors between the films as of The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine, other than things like the less than perfect consistency between Logan's Origins backstory and Stryker's declaration in X2 that he gave Logan claws, the difference in Creed's appearance from Origins to X1, and perhaps the appearance of a human-looking Hank McCoy in X2, and these seem unlikely to be addressed by Singer. The continuity problems were caused by First Class not matching up with the preceding films, TLS and Origins included. Continuity errors were not "plaguing" the series before then, but the films were being criticized for other reasons ( including differing from the source material in the comics ).

I agree with that. TLS and XO: Wolverine weren't plagued with continuity errors, they were plagued with stupidity errors.

 

[Ethros]

Still waiting for a Fantastic Four movie where they find the real Jean Grey in a stasis tube at the bottom of Alkali Lake

 

[Admiral_Young]

That could still happen if they're attempting to build an Fox Marvel Cinematic Universe, which seems to be the case. They still have to establish the Fantastic Four though, of which the reboot will hopefully succeed in doing this time around. Then the sky...or lake's the limit. I still think that very thing is going to happen. Perhaps not right away in Days of Future Past or even in "Fantastic Four" but a near future film.

 

[Gaith]

Consider the Back to the Future series

I try not to.

Well, I'll admit it: one doesn't hear that every day.

I suppose the true test will always have been: sometime in a generation or so, when these movies have run their course, could a first-time viewer watch, in release order, X-Men, X2, First Class, *maybe* The Wolverine and then Days of Future Past without feeling as though there was something significant missing?

... If so, I'll be happy.

 

[Admiral_Young]

There's nothing else missing from that list Gaith

 

[Dick Whitman]

Consider the Back to the Future series

I try not to. Especially due to the fact that it hypnotized an entire generation into thinking that time travel must work in incredibly stupid ways. Including time travel in... other franchises.

LOL You are hilarious. Until someone proves otherwise time travel is a fantasy! There is no rules to how it should work. Its fiction.

 

[Captain Craig]

Consider the Back to the Future series

I try not to. Especially due to the fact that it hypnotized an entire generation into thinking that time travel must work in incredibly stupid ways. Including time travel in... other franchises.

LOL You are hilarious. Until someone proves otherwise time travel is a fantasy! There is no rules to how it should work. Its fiction.

But this is the internet where someone always thinks they have the right way....and anyone else's way is wrong.

Time Travel works this way, my way damnit!!!

 

[Admiral_Young]

Yeah it really is just a fictional plot device...that can be used in a multitude of different ways depending on the writers plot

I still find it interesting that Singer went to Cameron of all people to discuss the time travel related issues in Days. I'm wondering if he won't attempt to use the "Terminator" style in the film.

 

[JD]

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So, if X:TLS was the original timeline, DOFP could start with the arrival of a traveler from the dark future, and, thanks to his/her meddling, the cast could repair things more than they intend, setting up an improved non-original timeline in which X3 is all but forgotten... forever.

I could definitely see that happening.

 

[Tosk]

Consider the Back to the Future series

I try not to. Especially due to the fact that it hypnotized an entire generation into thinking that time travel must work in incredibly stupid ways. Including time travel in... other franchises.

Any examples?

 

[Set Harth]

I'll give you a clue. It's got a Spock in it.