Days of Future Past Days of Future Past News and Discussion - Part 2

[spideyboy_1111]

http://collider.com/x-men-days-of-future-past-bryan-singer/

that doesn't mean he's a large role though lol

 

[Specter313]

Doesn't mean it won't either, if they're going so far as to cast the actual role, instead of just doing what they did with Kennedy in FC.

 

[JP]

i don't know... if anything Nixon could just be something we see on tv's to set the mood of the era, like Kennedy and the missle crissis was in FC

Then why would they need to cast an actor? Singer said he's a "character", not simply an appearance. Meaning Nixon factors into the plot. Not saying he's a big role, but obviously important.

 

[spideyboy_1111]

Then why would they need to cast an actor? Singer said he's a "character", not simply an appearance. Meaning Nixon factors into the plot. Not saying he's a big role, but obviously important.

but importance is about how they're used, not amount of screen time. And they do have to cast "everyone" in the film. I'd be shocked if they cast a well known actor in the role considering that'd eat up budget. Which, for X-men always seems to be a major thing to worry about.

 

[Retroman]

From http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/thegeekfiles/2013/03/three-more-join-cast-of-x-men-days-of-future-past-but-dont-expect-any-of-the-hellfire-club.html

I'm indifferent about January Jones as Frost but i do hope she returns in at least a cameo role. As someone else pointed out on this board, it seemed like she would have a pivotal role in Magneto's team at the end of the last movie.

Though I guess with the time leap they could easily explain Magneto parting ways with his First Class recruits. Perhaps he's recruited new blood in the form of Sabretooth....i'd love to see Liev Schreiber return to that role.

I'm thrilled happy with the confirmation of Colossus' return and so excited to see so many talented actors working on DOFP!!

 

[GuestStar2004]

singer says

The movie is about destiny. What is your fate? What were you supposed to do, what should you have done when you were younger? What didn’t you do that would have made for a better future? And what if you could go back and change that.

I think I’ve got the time travel – I don’t really want to call it time travel, but for want of a better word, time travel figured out. I pitched it to James Cameron and he signed off on it.

im not sure i read that before but its interesting

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/03...alypse/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

 

[Retroman]

^^ Thanks i hadn't read that before. It is interesting...

 

[The Infernal]

Though I guess with the time leap they could easily explain Magneto parting ways with his First Class recruits. Perhaps he's recruited new blood in the form of Sabretooth....i'd love to see Liev Schreiber return to that role.

Me too. Liev was one of the few good things Origins had going for it.

I would also hope that DoFP offered a little something in the way of an explanation of how the remnants of the Hellfire club became the Brotherhood under his lead as well.

 

[X-Maniac]

I would also hope that DoFP offered a little something in the way of an explanation of how the remnants of the Hellfire club became the Brotherhood under his lead as well.

Obviously they didn't become the Brotherhood, since none of them are in DoFP.

 

[SterlingDee]

Or they're still casting the part and haven't found the right person yet.

Or they've made an offer to someone who could be a bigger name and still waiting to hear back.

Or they're in the midst of negotiations and don't want to spoil it by letting it out too soon.

Or it's a big enough name that they're waiting to announce it last, a common enough practice in Hollywood.

Length of time taking to announce someone =/= the size of the role.

Yes, it could be a famous name being saved for the last major announcement (as there appears to be one more major character/actor yet to be announced from the photo lineup).

 

[SterlingDee]

Um...huh?

Halle Berry is still in the top 20 rankings of highest paid actresses commanding $10 million-plus per film. No other X-Men actress at this point has a yearly higher salary than her so to think she doesn't have the clout to negotiate "anything this time" is inaccurate.

Ok, "nothing" was hyperbole, I will give you that. Obviously, as a well known actress she has clout, but her position is not as a strong as it was when X2 or X3 was released.

Source for Halle still commanding $10 million a film? Other that her cameo in New Year's Eve (which there is no way she earned $10 million for) I don't think Halle has done a studio picture in years (possibly since Perfect Stranger or X3). She's had some films picked up for distribution but studios aren't lining her up to star in anything lol. Do you think when a studio has a new A-list project a film executive is screaming "Get HALLE BERRY on the phone!"???

 

[The Infernal]

Obviously they didn't become the Brotherhood, since none of them are in DoFP.

We don't know that for certain. He recruited them at the end of First Class. I doubt they had a change of mind en masse once the credits rolled. So he clearly started with the remnants of the Hellfire clube and by X1 he clearly has a brotherhood and not a Hellfire club. So it's pretty likely they were Brotherhood members before they left or something happened to them.

 

[X-Maniac]

We don't know that for certain. He recruited them at the end of First Class. I doubt they had a change of mind en masse once the credits rolled. So he clearly started with the remnants of the Hellfire clube and by X1 he clearly has a brotherhood and not a Hellfire club.

The next movie has a past setting of 1973, according to Singer, and it's been reported that none of the Hellfire Club members are in this next film. We know Jason Flemyng isn't coming back as he said so himself and spoke of how gutted he was at first, and if none of the Hellfire characters are in DoFP, that also rules out Emma Frost, Riptide and Angel Salvadore.

So while it might be interesting to see what happened to the new Brotherhood we saw at the end of First Class as Magneto broke out Emma Frost, I wouldn't bet on us finding out in Days of Future Past.

It does feel like there is a movie we haven't yet seen telling what occurred between 1962 and 1973. But I'm not sure we will ever know for sure what went down in that time.

 

[The Infernal]

The next movie has a past setting of 1973, according to Singer, and it's been reported that none of the Hellfire Club members are in this next film. We know Jason Flemyng isn't coming back as he said so himself and spoke of how gutted he was at first, and if none of the Hellfire characters are in DoFP, that also rules out Emma Frost, Riptide and Angel Salvadore.

So while it might be interesting to see what happened to the new Brotherhood we saw at the end of First Class as Magneto broke out Emma Frost, I wouldn't bet on us finding out in Days of Future Past.

It does feel like there is a movie we haven't yet seen telling what occurred between 1962 and 1973. But I'm not sure we will ever know for sure what went down in that time.

I know those member are not appearing. That's not my point. I was just pondering if we'll get an explanation of why the Brotherhood doesn't include those members when we next see Magneto and his group.

 

[X-Maniac]

I know those member are not appearing. That's not my point. I was just pondering if we'll get an explanation of why the Brotherhood doesn't include those members when we next see Magneto and his group.

With all this talk of alternate universes, etc, it's difficult to know what is going to happen.

 

[Supermanreturns]

Bryan Singer:

I might have use for some of Jack the Giant Slayer’s motion capture techniques [in Days of Future Past.] I don’t want to say how because that would give away what’s going to be in the movie, but I’ll be using that and perhaps simulcam technology for certain things. And I will be shooting stereo, true stereo.

[Newton Thomas Sigel] will be shooting the film. I’m not sure which camera we’re going to use. I’ve been debating between three. I had a good experience with the Epic Reds but X-Men will have it’s own specific look. It takes place in different times, and those times will have different looks.

X-Men 3 was a strange situation for me. I didn’t have anything to do with X-Men 3 or Wolverine except for the actor. I don’t think Brett [Ratner] knows this but I was so emotionally charged up about seeing X-Men 3 that someone who wasn’t supposed to took me into a building in the middle of the night and showed me it long before it was finished, on a computer, just so I could see it, understand what it is and not be freaked out when I went to the theatre to go see it.

[Eventually] I went to the Chinese theatre because I wanted to see it in a big theatre and they let me in, I had a baseball cap on, I hid in the back but suddenly, Brett Ratner shows up. He was like “Bryan!” and suddenly the audience [all see me] and Brett Ratner talking and I’m stood there sipping my soda out of a Superman cup.

There are parts of X-Men 3… it isn’t what I would have done, but parts of it, I liked. Ellen Page was something I liked in X-Men 3 and I’m bringing her to Days of Future Past. Certain things are different. There was a lot going on in it and I wasn’t so happy with so many people dying, but then there were some really sweet moments with that kid, the cure kid.

I just rewatched all the movies the other day. We had a big screening of every X-Men movie just to remind myself what they are. I don’t go to see my movies.

I said I’ll “fix a few things” [with Days of Future Past]. It won’t be its primary function but there will be some fixing. It’s a really cool story, and incidentally, it facilitates all of these characters. They weren’t just thrown in there. And they all play a fun role.

I want there to be some humour and some fun. In Days of Future Past there are some genuinely things in it. I can’t wait, and I know they will be fun to shoot. I want to keep that humour [because] the thing about X-Men is that the themes are serious, but the film doesn’t need to be…

From: http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/03/17/everything-else-bryan-singer-told-me-about-x-men-days-of-future-past/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

 

[Duran Man]

1. "I wasn't so happy with so many people dying"
2. "I'll 'fix a few things'"



Scott is coming back

 

[EnDz0n3]

[Eventually] I went to the Chinese theatre because I wanted to see it in a big theatre and they let me in, I had a baseball cap on, I hid in the back but suddenly, Brett Ratner shows up. He was like “Bryan!” and suddenly the audience [all see me] and Brett Ratner talking and I’m stood there sipping my soda out of a Superman cup.

Haha

 

[Angamb]

New interview by James McAvoy too:

http://www.iamrogue.com/news/movie-...tml?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

He has finally read the script and says its great, really good and will give fans what they want while at the same time giving something new, different and unexpected.

Glad to know James like it!

 

[lordofthenerds]

That's nice. But would he really say he didn't like it?

 

[Angamb]

He wouldnt fake that much, I believe.

not that he will say its bad, but he wouldnt say "Its great. Its really good and strong".

At least I dont think he is that type of actor.

 

[747]

McAvoy mentions being excited to work with Patrick Stewart. While he doesn't think he will get to work with McKellen. So I guess maybe we will get a scene with young and old Xavier!

 

[Angamb]

I found that interesting too. Maybe the Xaviers connection will be present after all.

time will tell, of course.

 

[GuestStar2004]

patrick and james acting along side one another would be pure acting gold, they are both great talents

makes you wonder about McKellen and Fassbender

who knows maybe there is more to it though

 

[georgec]

Aww man, I wonder when it might be time to go dark on this movie. I think I want to be surprised, but naturally once filming starts we might get some heavy spoilers.