Posts Tagged ‘Days of Future Past’

Daily News: 2/14/2013

Posted in News and Editorials, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 14, 2013| 8 Comments »

ComicBookMovie – Hugh Jackman Talks X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST; Role Will Be “Large”
THR also says that Jackman’s role in Days Of Future Past will be “large”, and that he’ll be reunited with many members of the original X-Men cast. He then says that he has yet to read a finished script, and that he has only seen an eight-page synopsis. – I keep saying he will likely be the time traveler, if his role is as ‘large’ as this suggests then that would do it.

CinemaBlend – X-Men: Days Of Future Past Adds Game Of Thrones’ Peter Dinklage – no news who he will play, but Puck seems to be the frontrunner of the speculation

ComicBookMovie – More From Bryan Singer On X-MEN: DOFP; Reveals Richard Nixon Will Be A Character – I already said, if they are doing 1973, no way they couldn’t do the Watergate Scandal.

CinemaBlend – X-Men: Days Of Future Past Will Shoot In 3D, And Bryan Singer Explains His Secrecy
“There’s things that we’re going to do in this movie that haven’t been done in X-Men films before. Stuff involving [time travel], and stuff involving certain technology, and certain science fiction aspects that haven’t been used before in an X-Men film. We’d like to keep some of that a surprise.”

i09 – The Batman movie reboot isn’t waiting for Justice League anymore

ComicBookMovie – Does A Late Trailer Date For THE WOLVERINE Signal Trouble? – not that it means the movie is of bad quality, just that waiting so long could easily not help in box office returns

Newarama – Marvel Comics’ FULL May 2013 Solicitations

CinemaBlend – Will Captain America: The Winter Soldier Feature Hayley Atwell After All? Winter Soldier will have flashbacks and it makes sense to at least spend a few minutes shoring up that plot line, but I don’t expect it to be more than that, a few minutes.

ComicBookMovie – THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 Shoot Moves To The Cemetery – who died? there are a few options…

ComicBookMovie – Felicity Jones Confirms Role In Marc Webb’s THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 – doesn’t say what role, speculation is Felicity could be Felicia… aka Black Cat

ComicBookMovie – Latest THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 Production Picture

ComicBookMovie – THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: Alternate Designs For Peter Parker’s Web-Shooters

ComicBookMovie – Marvel VFX Producer On GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, James Gunn, Rocket Raccoon And Groot
“Production has already started! Completely. It started months ago and we have an entire team in London already – we start shooting in June. Our director [James Gunn] travels next week and it’s going, baby! It’s a fast train to a beautiful place.”

ComicBookMovie – Trailer For Documentary- WONDER WOMEN! THE UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICAN SUPERHEROINES

CinemaBlend – Alice Eve Swears The Star Trek Into Darkness Villain Isn’t Khan

i09 – Can Futurists Change The Future?

io9 – The 7 Greatest Bromances in Space

ComicBookMovie – THOR: THE DARK WORLD Set Report Emphasizes On The Warriors Three And Marauders

CinemaBlend – Iron Man 3 Poster Reveals Rhodey As The Iron Patriot At Last

Rhodey As The Iron Patriot

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Daily News: 2/12/2013

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ComicBookMovie – First Teaser For THE WOLVERINE Attached To G.I. JOE: RETALIATION – well, that settles it, guess I will be seeing GI Joe 2 in theaters

ComicBookMovie – Nightcrawler: The Latest Mutant Bryan Singer Is Teasing For X-MEN DAYS OF FUTURE PAST
“I don’t know. We’ll see. You know … we’ll see,” he teased. When pressed a little further he explained, “I don’t want to … sometimes you don’t want to say “yes” or “no” to something that may not be a “yes” or a “no,” or anything. I haven’t decided yet, a few things.”

BleedingCool – How To Write Comics And Graphic Novels by Dennis O’Neil #20

ComicBookMovie – Emily Bett Rickards To Become A Series Regular In ARROW’S Second Season – good, she is one of the brightest points of the show

ComicBookMovie – New Behind The Scenes Photo From MAN OF STEEL – possibly spoilerish

ComicBookMovie – Chloë Moretz Says There’s Romance For Hit-Girl In KICK-ASS 2
“There’s going to get a bit more romance, a much more grown up Mindy Macready. Someone who’s questioning themself and whether they are a villain, assassin or a vigilante and a hero. So there’s a lot of tormented inner self, it’s interesting.”

CinemaBlend – How The Avengers Made A Motion Capture Hulk And Snagged An Oscar Nomination

ComicBookMovie – Marvel Reintroduce Trading Cards For GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY [comic] Relaunch

CinemaBlend – Lawrence Kasdan Says He Will Start Fresh For His Star Wars Spin-Off Movie

i09 – So… the popularity graph for the name “Bruce” looks just like Batman

Twitter – Maurissa Tancharoen – S.H.I.E.L.D. plot wraps filming, wrap photo below – via CBM

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Daily News: 2/11/2013

Posted in News and Editorials, tagged , , , , , , , , on February 11, 2013| Leave a Comment »

ComicBookMovie – Bryan Singer Unsure If Halle Barry Is Returning For X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST
“The story is designed and catered to the combined cast. It’s not just throwing in people to occupy the screen, occupy the billboards.” – promising
“I don’t want to say who the protagonists are yet, or talk about that yet, but I will say that every character has a very important function in the story.” – everyone knows Kitty Pryde was the mental time traveler in DOFP so why be coy? could this be more evidence that she won’t have that role in the movie?

ComicBookMovie – Bryan Singer On MAN OF STEEL And X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST

ComicBookMovie – THE WOLVERINE Trailer Will Be Delayed – “Take a deep breath. End of March”.

BleedingCool – Geoff Johns To Leave Green Lantern

ComicBookMovie – Tony Stark’s New Hall Of Armor In IRON MAN 3 (Partially) Revealed?

i09 – The biggest movie spoilers from Toy Fair!

ComicBookMovie – WOLVERINE Villain Silver Samurai Revealed At Toy Fair 2013
ComicBookMovie – SPOILERS: New MAN OF STEEL Toys Reveal General Zod’s Robot Army
ComicBookMovie – Toy Fair ’13: MAN OF STEEL Statues Featuring Zod, Faora, Jor-El And Superman
ComicBookMovie – Toy Fair ‘13: Hasbro’s THOR: THE DARK WORLD Toy Lineup And More Action Figure Images

ComicBookMovie – FANTASTIC FOUR & X-MEN: THE LAST STAND Concept Art Featuring Dr. Doom & Juggernaut

ComicBookMovie – MAN OF STEEL: General Zod’s Chest Emblem Revealed

io9 – DC and Marvel characters get a Pixar-style makeover

Twitter – Maurissa Tanchareon – behind the scenes of S.H.I.E.L.D.

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DOFP gets Petitioned

Posted in News and Editorials, tagged , , , , on February 10, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Scott and Jean in X3Petitions have become a bit of the rage lately, it’s a quick and easy way for large groups of people to get their point across, such as the current petition to cancel Avengers Arena. They can also be just for fun, like my favorite, the petition to the US Government to build a Death Star.

The latest petition I’ve come across is for Bryan Singer to have James Marsden reprise his role as Cyclops for Days of Future Past. Here is what it has to say:

The fans of X-men would like to see James Marsden return to the screen in the next X-men First Class: Days of Future past film as Cyclops. We are hoping to get Bryan Singer to see that there are still Cyclops fans out there that want to see him return. Especially with Cyclops being the leader of X-men! Since James Marsden left with Bryan Singer to do Superman and that’s the reason Cyclops was given an untimely ending, we think it’s only fair to see James Marsden reprise his role! Please sign so we can take notice of the return that his character deserves!

Certainly no one will claim that Cyclops was given anything close to a great role in the X-Men movies. Then when Marsden was unavailable for X3 he was given one of the most pointless death scenes of all time. So what would be achieved by bringing him back?

Everything.

The comic Days of Future Past is about time travel and changing the future. We don’t know at this time if the DOFP movie is supposed to change things so that the original movies happen… or change things so that the original movies didn’t happen. All we know is that there will be an apocalyptic type world in the future which could easily be post-X3 and that is what needs to be stopped from happening. It’s very possible that in doing so they change things so either just X3 doesn’t happen, or X2, 3 or X1,2,3.  Or, those movies remain untouched altogether. Anything goes right now, especially when considering that The Wolverine is canon post-x3 and DOFP could affect the continuity of his film.

So, having Cyclops character show up could do one of two things:

  • Prove that there is already an alt universe that, by being changed, makes the original movies happen.
  • Prove that the original movies are now alt-universe and a new canon universe has been created.

All this is done by just having Cyclops alive either at the beginning (when the time traveler is sent back) or end of the movie (I assume we’ll get a last glimpse of the future unless they want to be cruel and leave it up in the air).

Granted, Cyclops isn’t the only character who died, but he is the most telling. Jean, well, she is known to die and come back so that’s up in the air (plus she might already have come back in The Wolverine). The Professor was already hinted at still being alive. Cyclops would have the most impact as a ‘game changer’.

So the question is… will he be back? Well, there has been no word from Singer who has been making casting announcements via twitter. The thing is, DOFP hasn’t even started filming yet and it’s not like Marsden would have to do much, film wise, so even if he is working on a project he could spare the day or two of filming needed, after all, he did it for his death in X3. So he could literally be brought in at last minute… or even kept ‘hush hush’ as a surprise like with Wolverine in First Class.

If I was going to use Cyclops to show the future had changed that dramatically I would totally try to keep it quiet just to get some zing in at the ending of DOFP.

But if he never planned to bring Cyclops back, would a petition like this make a difference? As I said, there is a long way to go until the cut off time to bring Marsden in for filming. I guess it just depends on how much of an effect a living Cyclops would have on the storyline. In truth, I don’t think it would have any more effect on Singer’s decisions than all the other factors he’d have to look into for doing such a thing. It’s like the peititon to cancel Avengers Arena, Marvel only cares about the bottom line of the sales figures. I’m sure if Singer wanted Cyclops in the movie, or didn’t want Cyclops, then such things have already been decided or at least in the works.

Of course, Singer could also be cheeky about the whole and bring Cyclops into the story… as Alex’s younger brother.

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Daily News: 2/8/2013

Posted in News and Editorials, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on February 8, 2013| Leave a Comment »

CinemaBlend – Man Of Steel’s Faora Revealed In Action Figure Form

CinemaBlend – Man Of Steel’s Amy Adams Performs Classic Lois Lane Moment For Jay Leno

ComicBookMovie – Could We See A Fully CG Character In X-MEN: DOFP? – this article not-so-subtle hints that the Sentinel could be the CGI character and this would make the most sense, if there to do the big, bulky robotic hunters then CGI would probably be the easiest and cheapest route to take

CinemaBlend – The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Set Photo Reveals Some Nausea-Inducing Equipment

CinemaBlend – Iron Man 3 Lego Sets Feature Possible Spoilers

BleedingCool – Marvel Increases Market Dominance In January 2013

ComicBookMovie – SPIDER-MAN Test Reel Shows Added Musculature to Tobey Maguire’s Costume

ComicBookMovie – Marvel VFX Exec. VP Talks THOR: THE DARK WORLD, GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY And More

CBR – How much does Thor’s hammer weigh?

CinemaBlend – Ben Affleck Was Asked To Play Batman In The Justice League Movie?

io9 – Myths About Joss Whedon (That Keep Non-Whedonistas Away)

deviantArt – ai-eye

Two Faceby ~ ai-eye

Two Face by ~ ai-eye

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Daily News: 2/7/2013

Posted in News and Editorials, tagged , , , , , , , , , on February 7, 2013| Leave a Comment »

ComicBookMovie – Shawn Ashmore Comments On X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST, The Comic Book Story Arc & More
“I know about the script, but I haven’t been able to read the script. (Laughs) I haven’t read the script, but I have a very good idea of what’s happening and what my role is. I know, but I’m sworn to secrecy.”

CinemaBlend – Has The Justice League Script Been Scrapped?

CinemaBlend – New Amazing Spider-Man 2 Set Photo Features An Ominous Locker – which everyone is taking to think Venom (or at least a reference to him) will be in the movie

CinemaBlend – Why Venom Absolutely Won’t Be In The Amazing Spider-Man 2

ComicBookMovie – Alan Tudyk On The Possibilities Of S.H.I.E.L.D., ANT-MAN And More FIREFLY

ComicBookMovie – Did Entertainment Weekly just spoil Star Trek plot point?

io9 – Why Americans Became Obsessed with Ninjas

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New Details for DOFP

Posted in News and Editorials, tagged , , , on January 31, 2013| 1 Comment »

Below is the casting call for Days of Future Past courtesy of ComicBookMovie. Fittings starts in mid-February (which isn’t capitalized?) but the actual filming will be April to August, this gives plenty of time for post-production unless there is another  chunk to be filmed later. We can probably expect to see set pics starting in May.

The big thing is that apparently “most of the film takes place in 1973” which is ten/eleven years after First Class. I don’t see a problem with this, they need to move things forward in the timeline and allow them to go farther with the current actors.

A lot of people though, seem to take this as meaning that there will be no JFK assassination ‘magic bullet’ moment. Vaughn originally talked about such a scene when First Class came out as a possible opener for the sequel but seeing as the assassination took place in 1963 people believe this won’t happen. Um, they can still easily do that, if the film mostly takes place in 1973 doesn’t mean they can’t have the movie start in 1963 and do a quick skip to ten years later.

I’m more interested in the fact that this is 1973… what happened in 1973 that would fit with the Days of Future Past idea of changing the future? From Wikipedia:

And that’s just some of the highlights. Seeing as First Class went after the historical event of the Cuban missile Crisis it’s safe to assume that there is a very likely chance DOFP will involve itself either in the Vietnam War or the Watergate Scandal. But the question is, what would have to be changed? Or is more like they have to make sure that everything happens the way ‘we remember it’… i.e. maybe Nixon doesn’t resign or is assassinated in the future and that leads to a mutant apocalypse? Or they could just make something up, a young Senator Kelly or a replacement character?

Only time will tell… but they sure picked an interesting year to play around in…

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Singer Teases DOFP Set

Posted in News and Editorials, tagged , , on January 30, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Bryan Singer tweeted a sset design meeting at Mell’s studio in Montreal:

What can we see here?

  • It’s a long, straight building, with what looks like an entrance on the side.
  • The entrance itself is kinda reminiscent of the door to Xavier’s underground facilities in the past movies but it looks like there may be steps there.
  • It also has the same kind of hard curved lines that seem to me made for shiny metal.
  • The layout to the side looks like a topographical map, like this will be near a lake.

At first blush, I do think this is an X-Men facility, likely the one under the mansion, but since it’s a massive build it would have to be McAvoy’s set, which makes sense, Xavier had to build it sometime. However, the map makes it seem like this won’t be under anything but a free-standing structure.

So on second thought this could be the Brotherhood’s hideout. Magneto has to set up shop somewhere and there was talk this movie might be more about him and his side of things anyway.

Basically, I really can’t see them doing such a massive build on anything other than these two things.  Even looking at the original DOFP storyline and the original films they haven’t really built those size of sets for anything else. Single rooms, sure, but a complex that size? I mean, look at it, that’s like the length of a strip mall at least.

But, like all things, only time will tell.

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Daily News: 1/28/2013

Posted in News and Editorials, tagged , , , , , , , , on January 28, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Empire – Bryan Singer On Days Of Future Past
“We’ve cracked it in a way that it makes sense. I had a two-hour conversation with James Cameron about time travel, string theory, multiverses and all that. You have to create your rules and stick wtih them.” and “I’m taking into account every movie – I’m not just grabbing my first two movies and First Class and smashing them together.”

ComicBookMovie – Kevin Tsujihara Named CEO Of  WARNER BROS – they are starting to get their act together, this is a good sign

ComicBookMovie – New THOR: THE DARK WORLD Details  Hit; Producer Talks Redefining CBM Genre And More
“Like in Indiana Jones, while there’s high stakes and high danger, there’s  always fun. We have to constantly redefine what a superhero film is or it’d just  exhaust the audience. So Iron Man is the James Bond-y, classic, suave action hero; Captain America’s the period piece; Hulk is the  monster movie; Avengers the disaster movie; and Thor is the science-fiction  epic.”

ComicBookMovie – Mark Strong On Possibly Coming  Back To The KICK-ASS Franchise And GREEN LANTERN’S Failure
“I felt the same way about Green Lantern. I really liked the build up and  Geoff Johns’ commitment to Green Lantern, and everybody worked on it with the  best of intentions,” he said. Going on to say, “Ya know,  nobody makes a movie thinking ‘oh god let’s just make a terrible movie, let’s  not really try in this one shall we? Should we not even bother?’ Everyone was  really committed, and it’s a shame it didn’t catch fire in the right  way.”

ComicBookMovie – New KICK-ASS 2 Stills Feature  Hit-Girl, “Justice Forever” Headquarters And More

Newsarama – YOUNG JUSTICE, GLTAS Officially Canceled, CLONE WARS Moves?

Empire – Comic-Book Costumes From Page To Screen, Ranked By Fidelity To Source

ComicBookMovie – JOSS WHEDON On A Potential  FIREFLY Return

Newsarama – THE X-FILES Finds New Comic Book Home at IDW

ComingSoon.net – Wolverine Puts on a Suit in New Image From The Wolverine

Hugh Jackman in The Wolverine

Hugh Jackman in The Wolverine – Still not digging the hair.

ComingSoon.net – New Images From Man of Steel

Russell Crowe as Jor-El

Russell Crowe as Jor-El

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Rogue, Bobby, and Kitty back for DOFP

Posted in News and Editorials, tagged , , , , , on January 26, 2013| 1 Comment »

Anna Paquin as Rogue

Anna Paquin as Rogue

Days of Future Past director Bryan Singer has tweeted that Paquin, Page and Ashmore will be reprising their rolls as Rogue, Shadowcat, and Iceman in the upcoming film. This is in addition to previous news that Stewart, McKellen and Jackman will be reprising their roles as well.

Odds are, these are only going to be cameo performances. I say this because they are kinda bunched together here. Then there is the fact Paquin and Ashmore have their own tv shows to work on, True Blood and The Following. Granted, that hasn’t stopped some actors from making movies but could cause scheduling issues. Paquin also just had twins which might affect how much time she wants to spend off somewhere filming.

Also, Singer went after Stewart, McKellen and Jackman first which denotes that they likely have larger, more important, roles which needed to be locked down. This goes into my theory that Wolverine will be the one doing the time traveling rather than Shadowcat because she’s much to young in the original movies to be able to go back to the 60s/70s.

Odds are, these three will be shown standing around providing exposition right before the fateful trip. There is also the possibility of a little action, maybe they’re protecting against Sentinels and what not while Xavier sends whoever back in time, but again depends on what these guys signed up for.

Some pointed out that Bryan said “thank you @BrettRatner for letting them live!” which means we’ll see no Cyclops (who was treated poorly in the movies) or Jean Grey or anyone else who died. Well, Xavier kinda died and he’s back. Jean Grey does nothing but die and come back. Also, wouldn’t that be a great way to show that the world has indeed been changed by whatever happens in DOFP? With Cyclops being alive?

In the end, I did not like what they did with Rogue in X3, she wasn’t any more Rogue than Ryan Reynolds was Deadpool at the end of X:O:W. As long as DOFP gives us that glimmer that everything has been changed, that X1-3 are now ‘alt-universe’ movies, then I’ll be happy.

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