Days of Future Past Actors from original trilogy on First Class sequel with Days of Future Past

[747]

Page as Kitty was great with what little she got, I don't get the hate!

And re-cast Emma Frost, wtf?

 

[James_Smith]

Marsden is on the record saying he would love to play the role of Cyclops again, as are Stewart for Prof. X and Berry for Storm. Ashmore is still contracted to play Iceman in a fourth film as well, and of course Hugh Jackman has said he'll play Wolverine for as long as he can. I have no confirmation of this, but it's very likely cast members for X-Men: The Last Stand were signed under multiple picture deals, so for instance Ellen Page appearing as Shadowcat or Kelsey Grammar playing an older Beast wouldn't be totally out of the question.

Other original actors however such as Famke Janssen and Anna Paguin are no longer under contract and would be difficult to bring back to the franchise (but story-wise that's okay because Jean is dead and they can say the Cure was indeed permanent for some mutants, e.g. Rogue).

With such facts in mind, these are the characters I would like to feature in X-Men: Days Of Future Past:

1970s Ensemble

James McAvoy as Prof. X
Nicholas Hoult as Beast
Lucas Till as Havok
Skyler Samuels as Magma
Ryan Kwanten as Cannonball
Michael Fassbender as Magneto
Jennifer Lawrence as Mystigue

Story-wise, I want this to take place 8-10 years after First Class; Banshee has left, while other mutants such as Magma and Cannonball have joined the team in that time. I want it to be implied that Magneto's brotherhood has grown, but I only want Mags himself and Mystigue to play any sort of role (NOT as the main villain; save that for the next film, and not at all in the future as he will be dead by then).

Present-day Ensemble

James Marsden as Cyclops
Halle Berry as Storm
Shawn Ashmore as an older Iceman
Josh Holloway as an older Gambit
Kelsey Grammar as an older Beast
Hugh Jackman as Wolverine

Story-wise, I want Cyclops reappearance to be tied into the time-travelling plot somehow (e.g. he's already back at the start of the movie, and later it's explained that Bishop saved him from the Phoenix and transported him to the future where he was needed). Wolverine needs to be a minor supporting character (he'll have left the X-men after Beast takes over as headmaster of the school, but be helping with the fight on a solo level).

Other (time-travelling)

Ellen Page as Shadowcat
Morris Chestnut as Bishop

Not entirely sure how I want the story to play out here, but Shadowcat and Bishop need to be the only characters that appear in both time periods (until the final battle where the teams potentially join forces to fight an army of sentinels; maybe in the future, before time is righted and the dystopian future disappears and everyone is returned to their respective periods). Again, I don't know what I want to be the historical trigger for the dystopia (or Sentinel Program if that's what leads to it), but for the main bulk of the story Shadowcat and Bishop must be the only characters that travel between time periods in order to keep the perspectives (for the audience) clear.

 

[Majik1387]

Page as Kitty was great with what little she got, I don't get the hate!

And re-cast Emma Frost, wtf?

Some people are never happy.

 

[magneto23]

I'm not understanding why people are bringing up Marsden/Cyclops and Stewart/ProfX. We saw these characters killed in TLS. How will they appear in this story without totally mind fu#king the audience?

 

[Majik1387]

Actually, we didn't see Cyclops die at all.

As for Prof X, we saw his mind transfer.

 

[James_Smith]

I'm not understanding why people are bringing up Marsden/Cyclops and Stewart/ProfX. We saw these characters killed in TLS. How will they appear in this story without totally mind fu#king the audience?

We never saw Cyclops die, and I explained in my post above how it could work...

 

[JP]

I'm not understanding why people are bringing up Marsden/Cyclops and Stewart/ProfX. We saw these characters killed in TLS. How will they appear in this story without totally mind fu#king the audience?

Because DoFP would create an alternate future, so anything that has happened in X1-3 is would be null and void.

 

[magneto23]

Because DoFP would create an alternate future, so anything that has happened in X1-3 is would be null and void.

So right of the bat we will be viewing an alt world? Not the time line we know now? I thought the FC time line would separate and become the alt as a result of whatever goes down. In turn leaving the original trilogy time line as a dead end. Still confused.

 

[Majik1387]

Look at it this way, original trilogy somehow led to DoFP future, so they have a character travel to First Class's timeline to warn them, so they can change the future, negating the negatives of the original trilogy; possibly fixing what was wrong with the original trilogy.

 

[Angamb]

interesting

 

[magneto23]

Look at it this way, original trilogy somehow led to DoFP future, so they have a character travel to First Class's timeline to warn them, so they can change the future, negating the negatives of the original trilogy; possibly fixing what was wrong with the original trilogy.

But they aren't going to be "fixing" anything until the end of the movie. So how are we going to get all these dead characters if the future isn't changed until the conclusion of the film? Doesn't add up.

 

[Mrs Vimes]

I'm not understanding why people are bringing up Marsden/Cyclops and Stewart/ProfX. We saw these characters killed in TLS. How will they appear in this story without totally mind fu#king the audience?

You could look at it this way: we could see Cyclops and Professor X appear, but these would not be the exact same characters seen in X1-X3. Instead, they're Cyclops and Professor X from the alternate timeline, in which the mutants are incarcerated and in which the events of X1-X3 never happened.

 

[Genosha]

I definitely want Banshee back. But please give some more Irish roots. My biggest criticism for the X-Men movies is taking characters nationality and changing them to be American. It seriously drives me nuts! What I loved about growing up with X-Men comics was there amazing display of diversity. They came from all parts of the world unlike many other Marvel characters.

 

[DigificWriter]

We don't know at this stage whether or not Singer - as the man now nominally in charge of the X franchise - will use DoFP to render TLS out-of-continuity. Even if actors from TLS such as Ellen Page and Kelsey Grammer do return, it IS possible for them to be playing different versions of their respective characters for whom the events of TLS didn't happen, and the same thing applies to other characters as well.

 

[OsGom]

Page as Kitty was great with what little she got, I don't get the hate!

And re-cast Emma Frost, wtf?

Agreed! Kitty was one of the few bright spots from X3. The way she ingeniously dealt with Juggernaut was pretty epic.

 

[X-Maniac]

Look at it this way, original trilogy somehow led to DoFP future, so they have a character travel to First Class's timeline to warn them, so they can change the future, negating the negatives of the original trilogy; possibly fixing what was wrong with the original trilogy.

Or the First Class continuity led to DoFP future and they come back in time to change it, but end up creating a new continuity altogether (in which X1-X3 never happened).

 

[chaseter]

But they aren't going to be "fixing" anything until the end of the movie. So how are we going to get all these dead characters if the future isn't changed until the conclusion of the film? Doesn't add up.

Alternate timeline. If they fix the issue by the end of the movie then the dystopian future will never happen and the X-Man would never have traveled back in time...creating a paradox. Only other way is the Terminator logic that you can't change the future, just delay it...but that still creates paradoxes too as the machines would have never sent Ahnold back in time.

Alternate timeline ala Star Trek solves that.

 

[BobJM]

is it confirmed that original cast members are expected to return? or is this all just excited speculation?

 

[Majik1387]

All speculation of course; Though I'd most definitely count Hugh Jackman as in, even though he nor Singer or anyone at Fox said anything.

 

[BobJM]

yeah, that'd be the obvious suspect. and i doubt fox will bring back ellen page. if anyone will be beside hugh, expect patrick (wouldn't it be cool if he was walking, via that whole "new body" thing in x3), halle, and/or ian. it'd be great to see cyclops, but that seems unlikely, despite james's interest.

 

[Majik1387]

Why do you doubt Page's return?

 

[Phoenix_Flare]

personally i would love to see some, not everyone, from X1-2 make a cameo appearance in the distopian future...they can be mutant rebels fighting against the Sentinels...I'm sure the original actor would come back, if asked, If Rebecca and Hugh were nice enough to, then we just may see James, Famke, & Berry, etc

 

[The Batman]

In a perfect world, Cyclops would steal Wolverine's role in this film the way Logan stole Scotts role in the adaption of the Dark Phoenix saga.

I really dont wanna see Wolverine in this film.

 

[BMM]

No thanks. Two wrongs don’t make a right and, if Cyclops were to occupy Wolverine’s actual role in Days of Future Past, it would just mean he gets obliterated by sentinels. I don’t need to see Cyclops die again.

 

[mjdiddy1]

Am I the only one who feels this Days of Future Past would be a good thing for the X-franchise. By doing something in the past with First Class, it would totally change the future trilogy (the original trilogy) creating a virtual Tabula Rasa where in effect Cyclops, Jean, and Charles are still alive, Mystique never lost her powers and X3 never happened (or X1 & X2). This story could set up a new status quo for the franchise.