As Bryan Singer prepares to head back to the X-Men universe for next year's X-Men: Days of Future Past, the director has taken to Twitter to announce that three original X-Men members have joined the expanding cast of Fox's superhero sequel, with Anna Paquin, Ellen Page and Shawn Ashmore set to return as Rogue, Kitty Pryde and Iceman...
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Looking at the current cast for X-Men: Days of Future Past, it would seem that Singer is steering the sequel more towards X4 than X-Men: First Class 2, with the three new additions joining Patrick Stewart (Professor X), Ian McKellen (Magneto) and Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) alongside James McAvoy (Professor X), Michael Fassbender (Magneto), Jennifer Lawrence (Mystique) and Beast (Nicholas Hoult). Given the source material, you'd have to expect to see most of the original X-Men trilogy cast members limited to extended cameos (a Revenge of the Sith-style death scene montage, or a losing battle against the Sentinels?), unless they've decided to incorporate the current All-New X-Men storyline and bringing the First Class members forward in time? Surely not...
With filming on X-Men: Days of Future Past set to begin soon, we should expect to hear a few more casting announcements on over the coming weeks. Judging by Singer's comments about Brett Ratner and X-Men: The Last Stand, it's looking unlikely that James Marsden (Cyclops) and Famke Janssen (Jean Grey) will be back for Days of Future Past (although saying that Ratner didn't let Professor X live either), so that means potentially we could still see the return of Storm (Halle Berry), Beast (Kelsey Grammer), Colossus (Daniel Cudmore), Angel (Ben Foster) and maybe even Nightcrawler (Alan Cumming), along with the likes of Havoc (Lucas Till) and Banshee (Caleb Landry Jones)... assuming Singer hasn't completely forgotten about First Class.
X-Men: Days of Future Past is set for release on July 18th, 2014.
Very excited to welcome #annapaquin, @ellenpage& @shawnrashmore to #XMen#DaysofFuturePast - thank you @brettratner for letting them live!
— Bryan Singer (@BryanSinger) January 26, 2013
Looking at the current cast for X-Men: Days of Future Past, it would seem that Singer is steering the sequel more towards X4 than X-Men: First Class 2, with the three new additions joining Patrick Stewart (Professor X), Ian McKellen (Magneto) and Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) alongside James McAvoy (Professor X), Michael Fassbender (Magneto), Jennifer Lawrence (Mystique) and Beast (Nicholas Hoult). Given the source material, you'd have to expect to see most of the original X-Men trilogy cast members limited to extended cameos (a Revenge of the Sith-style death scene montage, or a losing battle against the Sentinels?), unless they've decided to incorporate the current All-New X-Men storyline and bringing the First Class members forward in time? Surely not...
With filming on X-Men: Days of Future Past set to begin soon, we should expect to hear a few more casting announcements on over the coming weeks. Judging by Singer's comments about Brett Ratner and X-Men: The Last Stand, it's looking unlikely that James Marsden (Cyclops) and Famke Janssen (Jean Grey) will be back for Days of Future Past (although saying that Ratner didn't let Professor X live either), so that means potentially we could still see the return of Storm (Halle Berry), Beast (Kelsey Grammer), Colossus (Daniel Cudmore), Angel (Ben Foster) and maybe even Nightcrawler (Alan Cumming), along with the likes of Havoc (Lucas Till) and Banshee (Caleb Landry Jones)... assuming Singer hasn't completely forgotten about First Class.
X-Men: Days of Future Past is set for release on July 18th, 2014.