Days of Future Past Bryan Singer Directing X-Men: Days of Future Past - Part 6

[def28]

I can agree with that. I actually find it funny that people consider Xavier one of the overexposed characters, like Wolverine, yet First Class was the FIRST time he was a lead player with character development.

Yeah, I'm guilty of that haha. And I'll admit it's really not a fair thing to say, especially when they have done such a good job with that character. I think it's more that everyone wants their favorite characters focused and its taking awhile to get there, or to get to some of the basics like Cyclops screen time down right. Even though FC was awesome, a majority of fans would probably choose to see other characters instead of Prof X. I was really surprised at how good a Prof X/Magneto movie could be. So they proved me wrong there.

Glad they are expanding though. They have alot of characters in their hands to start developing. The more the better.

 

[Alison Blaire]

The only character overexposed in the series is Wolverine.He has two solo movies.

And has been all over the X-Men movies.Most fans are tired of it.

 

[JP]

Yeah, that's true. But people see First Class and think that Xavier and Magneto and Mystique are overexposed character because they were so well developed in that film. But for the most part, that was the first time those character were front and center.

 

[Mrs Vimes]

I thought that Magneto was pretty well-developed in the OT. It helped that they gave him that great Holocaust scene at the start of X1. Professor X though never was more than an archetype IMO - your typical wise old leader/teacher who has to be taken out of the picture at some point so that our heroes can make their own path. Of course it helped a lot that he was played by Patrick Stewart who also had a fantastic chemistry with McKellen, but in terms of character development First Class was the first time I thought of Professor X as an actual person.

Hard to say what Singer's First Class would have been like, but I don't think it would have had the same pop and colour and energy. I don't know if he would have handled the 60s vibe as well either. I also would have missed playful scenes like Charles and Erik visiting the stripclub, which is not really Singer's style.

But as far as character development I found Prof X and Magneto in FC to be the best of the series. FC remains my favorite X film for that reason. The performances by Mcavoy and Fassbender where really top notch.

Yeah same here. FC is not flawless by far and X2 is a more consistent film overall, but the two lead performances in FC really lift it above the rest for me. Hugh Jackman's turn in the first two films was just as revelatory, but when you have two great lead characters playing off each other it's just like catnip to me

 

[Gianakin_]

Just wanted to drop by and say this is my most anticipated movie of 2014, and that the new pictures and the Logan cover got me hyped as f**k. Sentinels look great, too. Major kudos to Bryan so far (not that I expected any less).

 

[marvelrobbins]

Had Singer been able to direct first class you would have had less a Bond homage.SOme could say Vaughn was more intrested In doing a 1960's bond film than X-Men film.You wouldn't have had the mystique-Beast relationship.

With singer you would have gotten

Xavier more on equal footing with Magneto.A case could be made that Vaughn was more intrested in Magneto than Xavier.Moira would have been more important character.You would have had a Xavier-Moira-Magneto love traingle.
And you would have had Sunspot as a member of hellfire club.

Plus we know with singer we would have had better makeup for mystique and Beast.

 

[GuestStar2004]

It was defo better they didn't go with a silly love triangle with magneto, xavier and Moira, it was more creative in the long run, how many times have films done the whole 2 guys fall out over a girl thing

 

[marvelrobbins]

We don't know how the triangle would have worked.It might very well have been
Moira and Xavier become Involved.When Magneto comes along she becomes attracted to Magneto as he and Xavier become friends.

 

[GuestStar2004]

We don't know how the triangle would have worked.It might very well have been
Moira and Xavier become Involved.When Magneto comes along she becomes attracted to Magneto as he and Xavier become friends.

still works better without it, sounds abit wolverine,scott and jean love triangle

 

[Mrs Vimes]

Yeah, I am glad the love triangle was cut, and that Erik and Charles fall out because of ideological differences rather than a girl. As well as Charles' romance with Moira that was actually shot.

 

[Mrs Vimes]

Oops sorry double post.

 

[Mr.M]

Enough with the love traingles. It's outdated. Although I was hoping for a Happy/Stark/Pepper love triangle in the Iron Man trilogy. I think love triangles can be used more for levity, but not serious drama. It just takes away from the core concepts of a comicbook film, and gives these films an overly melodramatic TV flavor. Not something I wanted to see in First Class, and we already had two from the OT if you include Bobby/Rogue/Kitty.

We don't know how the triangle would have worked.It might very well have been
Moira and Xavier become Involved.When Magneto comes along she becomes attracted to Magneto as he and Xavier become friends.

Since we are speculating, I think it would have been Magneto seducing Moira for CIA secrets and then maybe falling for her, while Moira leant toward Xavier all along, and viewed Magneto as a fling, "sleeping with the enemy" sort of turn on. Then Magneto would have resented Xavier even more, possibly paralysing him. It would have been too complicated though. Why would Magneto fall for a human that worked for the CIA, even if his mother were human? We know he was attracted to Mystique all along, I think more sexually than a big brother sort of thing that he externalized.

 

[Gianakin_]

The 60s Bond stuff, script-wise, lasted literally 3 scenes. Yes, the art direction was a heavy tribute, but maybe that's why it was a gorgeous as f**k movie.

It was an X-Men movie alright.

 

[Iceman]

Yeah, I am glad the love triangle was cut, and that Erik and Charles fall out because of ideological differences rather than a girl. As well as Charles' romance with Moira that was actually shot.

Yes, enough love triangles. And Xavier & Mags are too important to fall out over anything less than their views/methods on managing global mutant/human relations.

 

[Loki882]

I would argue that Erik was the main protagonist in FC, with Xavier and Mystique being the secondary protagonists. Also, Erik/Moira wouldn't have worked (given his views of humans and his hinted at relationship with Mystique in the OT).

 

[GuestStar2004]

has this been posted yet? Singer talks DOFP


http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/07/19/director-bryan-singer-previews-x-men-days-of-future-past/

“It’s an original story, but it’s based on ‘Days of Future Past,’” explained Mr. Singer. “It takes into account all of the films so far and doesn’t go crazy trying to tie them together, but establishes a timeline and flushes out the universe.”

“At first we hadn’t settled on ‘Days of Future Past’ and were just talking about ‘The Godfather Part II’ as a model for a story with parallel timelines,” explained Mr. Kinberg. “But the more we talked about it, the more we were like, ‘This is the biggest story that hasn’t been told yet.’”

With its huge cast and a budget of more than $200 million, “Days of Future Past” is Fox’s biggest super-hero movie yet

“The goal is to take a step back and look at the franchise as more than one or two movies, but as an overarching mythology,” he said.

 

[747]

Nice find. Dig those Singer quotes.

 

[Angamb]

I love the last quote.

The X-Men comics have a very rich mythology, and the franchise needs to achieve that level and bring as many iconic elements as possible to bring a more beautiful, unique and rich movie universe, same way Star Wars did in the past.

 

[marvelrobbins]

So can we do away with the talk they are planing to do away with most of films with DOFP.These quotes make it clear they are more intrested in bringing all the films together and making them seem like 1 saga.

 

[Double B]

I wonder if they misquoted and Bryan actually said "fleshes" out the universe. "Flushes" would mean something entirely different but both are applicable.

 

[GuestStar2004]

I wonder if they misquoted and Bryan actually said "fleshes" out the universe. "Flushes" would mean something entirely different but both are applicable.

i think what he means by flushes is connecting major things together but flushing away small things that ain't important, like maybe saying magneto helped create cerebro might be flushed out of continuity

thats what i got out of it, basically highlighting the main points

 

[TWayneP]

i think what he means by flushes is connecting major things together but flushing away small things that ain't important, like maybe saying magneto helped create cerebro might be flushed out of continuity

thats what i got out of it, basically highlighting the main points

Yea I think its Flushes. It makes sense, and is a logical thing to do when dealing with time travel. you can def flush out all of the inconsistencies, but that takes some serious thought. I won't blame Singer if he misses a few.

 

[J.Howlett]

So can we do away with the talk they are planing to do away with most of films with DOFP.These quotes make it clear they are more intrested in bringing all the films together and making them seem like 1 saga.

But how, with First Class and Origins Wolverine being so contradictory to the trilogy and apparently to the Wolverine?

Frankly, this feels almost impossible to achieve. And trust me, nothing would please me more than to get X-Men back on track. Anyone who knows me knows I was hardcore about this franchise during Singer's initial two films and damn near had a stroke when Singer was not brought back for the third and the behind the scenes nonsense that got leaked online.

I just don't see how they can pull this off.

 

[Mr.M]

So can we do away with the talk they are planing to do away with most of films with DOFP.These quotes make it clear they are more intrested in bringing all the films together and making them seem like 1 saga.

Yeah but any time you introduce the variability of time travel, you are going to have these discussions. We don't know what rules Singer is establishing. Are these alternate universes? Or did the future always happen as is? Until we know what the take is on time travel, everything is subjective and open for debate.

 

[JP]

Great new quotes.