@Nell
I'm not talking about source. Math is easy, just look at Moira or Cyclops age in serie.
Not too distant future, it can be one month. You're saying late than 2006? There isn't 3 years between X1 and X2 events, or X2 and X3. There are WTC in X1, and if they care history events in this serie, they also should care 11 IX 2001. X1 take place before this date, book it. X3 is in 2003.
WTC means nothing. Just because the WTC was in the New York skyline, in the background and not a point of emphasis no less, in a movie made and released well before 9/11 and didn't need to be accounted for, doesn't mean the film takes place prior to it.
There aren't 3 years of events between X-Men thru X-Men 3, no. That's why the entire series takes place well beyond this 2003 date that has no support behind it, in fact there is support AGAINST it when a movie released in 2006 is stated, in film, to take place in the future.
2003 is not the future from 2006.
Now, let's NOT look at the viral marketing, and look at the actual on film evidence:
-The Wolverine clearly is not intended to take place in "the past", but rather, present day / near future. That places it at about 2013 - 2014.
-The Wolverine takes place about a year after X-Men: The Last Stand ("I've been tracking you for over a year" with documents showing the events of X-Men 3).
-The credits scene takes place 2 years after The Wolverine (tagged on screen), placing it 3 years after The Wolverine (2015-2016)
-Bryan Singer has stated that X-Men: Days Of Future Past takes place 10 years AFTER X-Men: The Last Stand (which would be 7 years after the credits scene). With our math, that places the movie in 2022 - 2023.
No viral marketing needed to come up with 2023.