The latest X-Men: Days of Future Past themed cover for Entertainment Weekly features Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), Magneto (Michael Fassbender) and Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence), while a new behind-the-scenes preview of the “inbetweenquel” offers up some very interesting new footage.
However, in their brief report, EW reveals that the reason that Wolverine travels back in time is to stop Mystique from assassinating Bolivar Trask, as it is this action which apparently leads her down the path we find her on in the original X-Men trilogy of movies.
If he can stop her, and unite the young Professor X and Magneto, a new timeline would be created which wipes out the previous X-Men adventures and avoids the cataclysmic future we’ve caught a glimpse of where most of Earth has been devastated by the Sentinels in their quest to wipe out all mutants.
Assuming that Wolverine succeeds, this allows Singer to revisit many fan favourite characters from X-Men, X-2 and X-Men: The Last Stand in 2016’s X-Men: Apocalypse without worrying about linking them up to where we saw them in any of those movies. It’s a reboot basically, but a lot more complicated!
What do you guys think? For now, here’s the featurette and magazine cover…
The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods in X-Men: Days of Future Past. The beloved characters from the original X-Men film trilogy join forces with their younger selves from X-Men: First Class, in an epic battle that must change the past to save our future.
The all-star cast of X-Men: Days of Future Past includes Hugh Jackman, Michael Fassbender, Ian McKellen, James McAvoy, Patrick Stewart, Jennifer Lawrence, Daniel Cudmore, Nicholas Hoult, Peter Dinklage, Halle Berry, Adan Canto, Anna Paquin, Evan Peters and Ellen Page. It’s set to be released on May 23rd, 2014.
