If you've seen, followed, and enjoyed Bryan Singers' X-Men movie cycle since X-Men (2000) as much as I have, this trailer is monumental. Days of Future Past serves as the sequel to the 2011 prequel story First Class (2011), but is really a cumulation of all the story lines and characters from Singer's first chapter in 2000.
The story, which had it's brief preview in the end credits of The Wolverine, involves the older Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart) looking to use a seemingly older (is that even possible?) Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) in a plan to re-construct events of the past. Xavier asks Wolverine to connect with and lead his younger self (James McAvoy) to help prevent the war waged in The Last Stand (2006) and beyond. Our older Magneto (Ian McKellen) is also on board, as this war pertains to our X-Men-vintage "Sentinels" and their creator Boliver Trask (Peter Dinklage). Wolverine will be encountering the younger versions of Magneto and Xavier following the events of First Class, where they ultimately divided on separate paths. Got all that?
Major characters from past X-Men films include Storm (Halle Berry), Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence), Beast (Nicholas Hoult), Rogue (Anna Paquin), Iceman (Shawn Ashmore), and Azazel (Jason Flemyng), who should be Nightcrawler's dad. New mutants, shown briefly in the trailer, include Shadowcat (Ellen Page), Warpath (Booboo Stewart), Bishop (Omarsy), and Quiksilver (Evan Peters).
A film of this magnitude, tying together back stories from over a decade of plots, will be a staple for the X-Men franchise and Marvel. Check out the announcement tweet from director Bryan Singer and the trailer for X-Men: Days of Future Past after the jump, which is set to release May 23, 2014.
Tomorrow's trailer is primarily a character piece, as most of our VFX are not yet finished.
— Bryan Singer (@BryanSinger) October 28, 2013
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