The 8 Months Between X2 and X3

Kinberg or Penn stated recently that though they weren't entirely sure, as an exact time frame was never given, around 8 or 9 months seemed like a sensible amount of time to have passed between X2 and X3.

I can't remember the exact quote, but no doubt someone will post hit here at some point.

My question is, what has happened in that period in between the end of X2 and the start of X3?

We know a couple of things.

The President:

Xavier's talk with the President at the end of X2 had a positive effect. The President changed his stance and instead sought a similar goal to Xavier, integrating mutants and humans in society. He set up the Department of Mutant Affairs (DMA) of which I presume Beast is a government official.

At some point, the President was replaced by his successor, who's mutant policy we're yet to discover. He appears to have kept the DMA.

The Danger Room:

This could well explain how many of the powers have advanced for X3. The characters have each had over half a year to hone their abilities in the Danger Room.

The Funeral:

We can presume that Jean's funeral would have occured within a month of her death, thus won't be shown in X3. Thus, the funeral is for another character, or for Jean's second death, should she die again.

 

The video game will have an awful lot of events in that in fact didn't occur in the movie universe. What occurs in the game can't be taken as fact as to what happened in between X2 and X3 in the movies.

Aside from that, the game isn't out yet, and waiting for the game 'to find out' defeats the whole purpose of speculation.

 

But wouldn't that have to occur at some sort of significant date? Likely a year from her death?

As for vanillacyke, whilst the game does explain some of the events that occur between X2 and X3, namely, the general outline, there will be things that happen that don't actually happen in the movieverse. Deathstryke and Sabretooth being alive and well are perfect examples of this. They'll be added for the purpose of fleshing out the character count in the game, not some arc to link in with the movieverse.

Likewise, we can expect the role of the Sentinels in the games to be significantly different to that in the movies.

 

Could well be the case. However, if the X-Men had been up against the Sentinels at some point, it would have a massive bearing on X3. There would be the looming threat. Discussion of how they'd had to take them on. Right from the get go. I just can't see this happening. The movie will likely forget any reference in the game to Sentinels and start from scratch.