Off YOUR Mind: Is Adapting 'Days of Future Past' a Good Idea?

@PhoenixoftheTides said:

If Storm was going to be in the cast, she'd need to be older anyway, if that part of the storyline was to be consistent at least. And I'd prefer a newer, unknown actress over Halle Berry; no disrespect to her, but she didn't look like Storm to me.

On the off chance Fox and Bryan Singer have any desire to bring in an 'older Storm', I hope they finally cast Angela Bassett then.

@Tyrannotaur said:

My question is if they do this and somehow thrust the cast of First Class into the future, what would they do as far as established characters in the x-men film series? I'm sure getting Hugh Jackman wouldn't be a big problem, and I can even see Patrick Stewart coming back (even though I think Xavier is dead in DOFP right?). But people like Halle Berry would be hard to get back I think. Especially with after winning an Oscar, she demanded more money and screen time in X-men 3 (or so I've heard). It may be out of Budget to bring her back. Honestly I'd be fine with them replacing her or just not having Storm in the movie, but I know the Storm Fanboys and girls (especially on this site, lol) love their Storm. I've wanted them to have sentinels in the series since X-men 1, and its certainly more possible now to have giant robots walking around (see the Transformers films). I'd also like to see Ellen Page come back to play Kitty and maybe if they could get Anna Paquin for Rogue, she's busy with True Blood though probably.

I think this could work, it just seems odd for them to do it in the First Class series. I was hoping that if they ever made X-men 4 they'd do it then. Though honestly the First Class series is a semi reboot of the X-men films so I'm glad they are continuing with it.

If Storm was going to be in the cast, she'd need to be older anyway, if that part of the storyline was to be consistent at least. And I'd prefer a newer, unknown actress over Halle Berry; no disrespect to her, but she didn't look like Storm to me.

@arw1985: Movie goers don't like things that are too comic booky unless it's iconic. Usually. Guardians of the Galaxy is probably going to be terrible.

My question is if they do this and somehow thrust the cast of First Class into the future, what would they do as far as established characters in the x-men film series? I'm sure getting Hugh Jackman wouldn't be a big problem, and I can even see Patrick Stewart coming back (even though I think Xavier is dead in DOFP right?). But people like Halle Berry would be hard to get back I think. Especially with after winning an Oscar, she demanded more money and screen time in X-men 3 (or so I've heard). It may be out of Budget to bring her back. Honestly I'd be fine with them replacing her or just not having Storm in the movie, but I know the Storm Fanboys and girls (especially on this site, lol) love their Storm. I've wanted them to have sentinels in the series since X-men 1, and its certainly more possible now to have giant robots walking around (see the Transformers films). I'd also like to see Ellen Page come back to play Kitty and maybe if they could get Anna Paquin for Rogue, she's busy with True Blood though probably.

I think this could work, it just seems odd for them to do it in the First Class series. I was hoping that if they ever made X-men 4 they'd do it then. Though honestly the First Class series is a semi reboot of the X-men films so I'm glad they are continuing with it.

Get rid of Bryan Singer ... his version of this universe is so tired and ultimately underwhelming. The battles he lines up are unspectacular and unsatisfying.

I do NOT want more of the same. The X-Men franchise needs a more 'Avengers' movie vibe and grandiose quality to it and Singer is most definitely not the man for the job IMHO.

If the X-Men screw up the timeline enough, then we might be able to excuse the minor continuity errors of the series, and have the First Class and Wolverine stories in the same universe

Like anything else... if done right, i'm for it.

too bad joss whedon is involved in the movie

@Fiona_Hewie: What's all this? It's confusing for some because yeah they're in the same universe but XFC brutally shat all over any continuity that makes sense. They screwed it all up. And the X3 and XOW not counting cop out is ridiculous because they screwed things up for the first two X-Films also. The 60s setting is terrible. The atmosphere in X-Men 1 does not reflect a 40 year history of mutants, it is set at the point where the Mutant issue is 'becoming' more and more exposed. I figure that would have happened between the two films. It's 40 YEARS! It all just comes off as confusing.

Didn't even read the article yet. The answer is HELL NO! These hacks at FOX have failed at every angle. They need to give it up already

@JePx: Uh, what's wrong with it being too comic-booky? It's about people who get powers by having some gene that makes it so. Besides, it's why anyone would watch it.

Anyway, I think it's a good idea. I just hope it's as good as the comic storyline and the two-parter from the 90's animated show.

I would rather have them do Age of Apocalypse than days of future past.

Bad idea.

X-men franchise is missing a clear cinematographic plan.

1) Avengers has a plan. It started with Iron Man in 2008, and up to now we have a movie chronogram that takes the franchise to 2015 with Avengers 2.

2) Spiderman seems to have a plan. The reboot worked, the new plot is cool, it has a future.

3) Batman had THE plan.

First Class was OK, but X-men deserved mucho more... I think the first thing to do is build a good X-men universe (trying to improve what X-men FC started), then think about bringing stories like “Days of Future Past” to the big screen. They should also worry about how Wolverine II (which belongs to the old X-men movie series) will fit in the FC universe.

It could be good, but only if they make it a separate universe from the X-Men films. They should keep the same actors though.

And what's all this about First Class being a separate universe? It's in the same continuity as the other X-Men films.

@LoganRogue24 said:

i find it funny some fans say bryan singer should stop doing x-men but look what we got after he left x-men 3 and wolverine that failed. in my opion x-men 1 2 and first class are the real x-men films 3 and wolverine are what if films to me if that makes sense.

IMHO all of the movies except "First Class" were pretty bad. 1 and 2 were boring, 3 was horrible and Wolverine was a wreck. "First Class" was so surprising because they took a cast composed mainly of unknowns and minor X characters and made an entertaining movie out of it. Even as an X-Men fan I rarely feel the need to re-watch any of the Singer movies - each had one or two good moments, but suffered from the usual over-acting, set-piece treatment of characters and stilted dialogue.

If the X-Men weren't taken so seriously, and the writers had some fun with the series, like the "Avengers", "Thor" and "Fantastic Four" creative teams did, maybe the movies will be imbued with a sense of exhilaration.

Fox can't even do a proper X-men movie and now they are trying to adapt  the classic X-men storyline,its  going to be awful just like X-men 3 was an adaption of the Dark phoenix saga.

@VioletPhoenix said:

Definitely a GREAT idea, it's honors fans, the classic history of the X-Men, it bridges the continuity gaps between the several films (thus again making fans happy), it's a jumping off point to introduce time-travelling mutants and other X-Men and possibly undo any damage from the other films, AND IT'S A FREAKING AWESOME STORYLINE. I say HUZZAH! Also yay.

Your post is awesome, I totally agree.

I would prefer if they made an animated feature.

though this is an adaptation i would love to see as a movie, looking at everything theyve made so far tells me they cant pull it off. they really need to relaunch this franchise with a whole new production team. though i did like the first 2 x-men movies despite all their flaws, i always thought of the movies as just that stepping stone to actually get a good x-men movie on the screen eventually. i always saw those first films more as an homage to the x-men. but i dont consider the what theyve laid out before us to be the an actual good take on the x-men as a whole.

@antemiusenteri: storm's dead in that story.

@JohnnyWalker: why no ?

@RedheadedAtrocitus: If transformers can be done so can sentinels, in my opinion

@AskaniSon295 said:

I would do it like this a part of the movie takes place after The Last Stand X-men movie X-Men being Wolverine,Shadowcat,Rouge,Storm,Iceman,Collossus this configuration or a smaller one (depending on the availabilty of the actors) are in days of future past world and travel back in time to change the future kinda like StarTrek 11. Fight with the First Class shut down sentinnel program before inntiation kill Magneto. Oh and you can also do that thing where they time traveling changed the future but it doesn't change the X-men's memories and than at they end have a combination squad of X-Men to take on apocalypse.

i kinda agree with you on that... i think it will be better if at least 3 or 4 members of the x-men will go back to the past to stop the assassination thingy... coz it will be like the old x-men meets the new x-men... and i like wolverine, with not to much occupying the screen, shadowcat, rogue, which is more sassy and more of a fighter and not the one that we used to see in the first trilogy, storm and colossus will make up the team... or if they really want only one mutant to time travel back to the past... i will like it to be Rogue.... because for me, as a Rogue fan since childhood, i hadn't seen enough Rogue in the first trilogy, because she was treated as a minor or rather, a background character. Yeah, she is the main character in the first x-men movie and I may give exemption to it because it is her starting point of being a mutant. But with the next two films, instead of seeing her grow as a mature mutant who is now able to accept herself and her powers, we see how the creators "murdered" her character and treat as something that is not worthy to be develop. Especially in the X-3 where they cured her instead of letting her join the final battle and kick some mutant butt. I think it is now time for the "Real" Rogue to step up into the big screen. I think it is now time for her to shine and let the moviegoers see the Rogue that we used to know and love. So, why not give Rogue a chance to give justice to her character and let her be the mutant who will time travel back to the past? Since she and shadowcat are at the same level in the X-3. Plus, Anna Paquin also wants to regain her role as Rogue and experience the butt-kicking Rogue that we know. So why not give her a chance? I will be happy to see Anna playing the Rogue in the comics and see her fighting villains and killing evil mutants on the big screen.

I think for me, its kinda early to adopt a storyline like The Days of the Future Past because if we base on the ending of the First Class which I admit was really a good film, there is just too much information that we, the movie goers wants to know. I think they should focus first on that information so that there will be no holes that will left empty.

I prefer the other rumor of the sequel of the First Class which is X-Men: The Brotherhood. So that we will know how did Magneto started the Brotherhood, how did he adopt the name "Brotherhood" and it will really connect to the ending of the First Class where he started to divert from the principles of Charles and started to establish his own group. Also, we can include here who are the first members of the Brotherhood, some emphasis on the development of Mystique and her relationship with Azazel, the slowly acceptance of Beast in his new appearance, the development of Charles to the Charles that we know and how did he accept the codename Professor X, how he cope with his paralyzed body and the official establishment of the Xavier Institute and the X-men. I also want to put Mr. Sinister as the main antagonist and maybe, a means to give way to the introduction of Cyclops in the movie since Mr. Sinister is running after the Summer's blood and also a way to introduce Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver in the movieverse of X-men.

I think they should prioritize this first before adopting the Days of the Future Past storyline in order to give us more information and more details to the characters of the X-men and how the two groups of mutants: Brotherhood and X-men exist. I think it's better if they would make Days of the Future Past as the third and final movie of the new X-Men trilogy in order to pave way to the new and rebooted x-men universe because they say it is "ambitious", so why not save the best for the last? And other thing, this will connect us to a new set of x-men movie or trilogy, if they are really planning to reboot it, giving the "time travel mutant" a great shock on seeing the great change that happened once he or she alter the past as a means of cliffhanger ending of the movie and also an entry to a new trilogy. Well, this is just my opinion.

There has never been a good X-Men movie.

Jackman's furry awesomeness has ultimately been wasted. This upcoming movie has my wish of good luck but deep down I know how it will end up...

What needs to happen is this: HBO or some other cable station needs to start an ongoing x-men series, no movie will ever capture a fraction of the epic plots, events, and characters in the x-universe. First episode could be the first book in origin, hell even Apocalypse if they want to get all ancient Egypt about it. with the right cast it would join the ranks of all our favorite dramatic tv series. And without the 2 hour time constraint perhaps they won't feel the need to paraphrase the great thing that made them want to make the movie in the first place.

They're going to have to be really careful with the overall idea. I could see it being a mess, but I have a lot of confidence in Mr. Vaughn. I want to see characters from previous movies pulled into the mix, but played by different actors, whether they be older or younger, it doesn't matter. The series got a great revamp, so I want them to continue with their amazing efforts.

personally I think it's too early in the First Class universe to do this storyline... this storyline would have worked better as a sequel to X-Men Last Stand

Granted i havent read DOFP (i know i should be ashamed, lol) if magneto is not a big part of it then it may be strange because they will try to infuse him as much as they they can into the story being that Michael Fassbender is so awesome in that role

@thenexusrebound: i agree with you.

i find it funny some fans say bryan singer should stop doing x-men but look what we got after he left x-men 3 and wolverine that failed. in my opion x-men 1 2 and first class are the real x-men films 3 and wolverine are what if films to me if that makes sense.

When Vaughn made First Class he said it was Prequel and a Reboot. I think that they want to use the Days of Future Past Plot Device to reconcile the entire franchise. X-Men First Class cancelled out a lot of what was established in the 2000 film. First Class was a great movie and I think they want to build on the mythos they established in that film and maintain some established ones (I Hope they cancel out and eradicate X3. I was so saddened by that movie. It did not work the way it should have.) Time Travel is a great way to fix of reset continuity in comics and sci fi as all your Nerds on here should know. Days of Future Past is my top five favorite comicbook story of all time. It is a masterpiece in a classic run. The Byrne Claremont X-Men are the best. Marvel needs an omnibus of that run. I would pay a hundred bucks for it. I think it will be based on the concepts of that story but not a full blown copy of it. I hope they can get Logan and kitty in it. Maybe they are talking to Hugh Jackman. Maybe another actor will play Logan. I like this idea. Its going to be fun. The Empire Strikes back set the standard for sci fi sequels. It is always judged as the standard i.e. X2 Dark Knight. This movie will be big in scope and story and I think this is a way of reconciling what they did in the past. I think its going to be cool. If it was a complete reboot they would have used the original five. The fact that they didnt pretty much confirms that they did not want to completely throw out the mythology of the other films they made. Which if you think about it makes sense. Time Travel and alternate realities can really be cool when done right. Ask James T. Kirk about that. "Seventeen seperate violations, the man was a menace" (Deep Space Nine). Anyway I am looking forward to it. I think people need to relax. They said its ambitious. After the last movie they have to come back hard. Man imagine the Sentinels and maybe Rachel will pop up. The Claremont Byrne Era was the best X-Men era ever then the Whedon stuff. I love the chick who plays young Mystique (Licking Lips) She is hot. I want to see Destiny in this movie. They should have used her in the last one. I think this is going to be a great movie. If its time travel maybe old Xavier and Magneto will pop up. The fact that they age the characters and dont use a sliding time line will make this more interesting. The X-Men in the comic have been in their 20s and 30s for 40 years now. The more I think about it, the more I like the concept. Man the next two to three years of movies are going to be awesome. We got a lot to look forward to.

I would do it like this a part of the movie takes place after The Last Stand X-men movie X-Men being Wolverine,Shadowcat,Rouge,Storm,Iceman,Collossus this configuration or a smaller one (depending on the availabilty of the actors) are in days of future past world and travel back in time to change the future kinda like StarTrek 11. Fight with the First Class shut down sentinnel program before inntiation kill Magneto. Oh and you can also do that thing where they time traveling changed the future but it doesn't change the X-men's memories and than at they end have a combination squad of X-Men to take on apocalypse.

I have faith in Matthew Vaughn. He did excellent job in X-Men First Class. It was much better than the first three movies of X-Men. I am expecting the next X-Men movie to have plenty of good background information on each character and at least 2+ hour long.

@Mr_Wayne69 said:

I initially wanna say "no" but this could be the chance to try and fix all of the continuity issues that have plagued the franchise as of late. They can take a page out of Star Treks playbook...

Agreed.

They will obviously have time travel as part of the story, so I wouldn't mind if they down-played the Sentinels or altered them in a more plausible way.

Bryan Singer and co made a mockery of other seminal X-Men storylines with poor adaptations of God Loves Man Kills and the Dark Phoenix Saga. I don't trust them with this one at all.

The Dark Knight trilogy succeeded because it was well written/directed/acted plain and simple. Also it always FELT like Batman. If we could get a baseline of good writing that didn't feel anachronistic to our ideas of what X-Men should be then it should be fine. Baiting us with old Chris Claremont storylines is like playing with fire. Just make it FEEL like X-Men and not some weird twisted thing that makes us all go "Are you kidding me with this?"

This is there chance to fix all the issues of the first 3 movies. & Bring on Storm-- It's been 2 whole movies without her.

I haven't read the book and I probably shouldn't until after the movie but if time travel is involved, maybe it can be a good idea if they are smart about it. Just as long as Cyclops, Jean Grey, and Kitty Pryde are involved somehow, then it should be possible. Also, baby Nightcrawler.

this can be interesting. seeing an older wolverine could be cool

It would be nice if this movie can do a sort of soft reboot. I loved the first two X-men films and First Class, but the origin and X-3 were horrible. It would be nice to see it as a soft reboot, which allows for what worked to remain, and what didn't get the boot.

I would actually like it if the main comic books followed the days of future past arch. The way things are going with AvX I could see current events leading to huge war between Mutants and humans.

It would be nice to just have a reboot of the entire X franchise (with NO BRYAN SINGER!) As a comic fan (nerd) I hate when movies deviate from comics BUT if it is done well, it is still very much enjoyable (hence X-Men First Class). I can accept movies not following comic continuity but it is really irritating when movies don't follow their own created continuity (hence X-Men movie universe). I'm sure Days of Future Past will only generate more holes in the X-Men movie universe such as a feline Hank McCoy fighting alongside an adult Kitty Pryde--where you're left saying "wtf!?". I say reboot the X-Movie franchise, delete Singer from all equations, let other villains besides Magneto shine, and please....please focus on the many great X-characters beside Wolverine! Wolverine has is own movies now...don't drown us with him and over-saturate us with him in the X-Men movies. Marvel is doing that already in the comics. I got sidetrack: "Is trying to adapt or using the title, "Days of Future Past" a good idea?" --->No. Not with Singer involved & so many movie continuity holes.

While anything X related in films is a plus with me, I do have my reservations with this one. First, I struggle with the idea of Wolverine and Shadowcat having a major role in this movie if it follows on from the continuity established in the first three x-men films. While the timescale would prevent Kitty and Logan from taking part, the idea of Day of Future Past without hem just doesn't seem right. Of course, if they're trying to establish an entirely new continuity (like the one seen in X-men Origins: Wolverine), it could work out.

My second issue is with asthetics. While it just about works in the comic books, I'm not sure that I would find a group of giant, purple and red coloured robots convincing as an antagonist for a whole film. I know that one made a brief appearance in a deleted scene from the 3rd film, but there it was only as a severed head, so it doesn't really count. In fact, the absence of the sentinels in the first trilogy is, to me, an indication that they don't really work in a live action film. Then again, there is the case for the Transformers films...

@k4tzm4n: I think a part of the issue is that, from a purely comercial point of view, people don't always respond well to reboots, unless it's made really, REALLY obvious. I guess that the people at the top would want to avoid confusion in case it puts people off going to see the film when it's released.

My family had issues understanding that the latest Spiderman was a reboot (my dadspent the whole time grumbling about 'paying to see the same film twice' but with different actors). I can easily imagine having to explain to people the whys, hows and wherefores of the films if they include Shadowcat and Wolverine in the next film. Part of the major issue is the fact that Hugh Jackman plays Wolverine in all of the films to date, despite the fact that the continuity doesn't match up.

I like this story a lot...but i am wary of how it will be interpreted...i doubt it will be done justice but im interested.

Unless they add Kitty and Wolverine later being a rumoured possibility then no plus they'd be better doing that latter

Whether or not this is a good idea i'm not sure,however i get the feeling that this might just be their way of rebooting the series by using time travel as a device to create an alternate timeline that would allow them to bring back the characters from the original three movies.

If they bring Ellen Page to reprise her role as Kitty, then I'm sold.

No it's not. Too comic-booky, the story sounds crappy. The first one was good so it could be decent I guess.

@GardnerLantern said:

They screwed up their timeline with the first movie and now they go with the most difficult story arc to adapt. Yeah, keep up Fox, good decisions.

Actually the only screwed up the timeline was with the third movie, when they established that Charles could walk and Eric was still a good guy when they were older and they threw that out of the window by shooting Charlie in the spine and turning Eric into Magnto much earlier. But I pretty much agree with you though.

I'm not sure how they're going to pull this off successfully, but I really hope they can find a way! If done right, a movie based on Days of the Future Past would be really cool. Hoping for the best!