X-Men: Days of Future Past

WHO
Directed by: Bryan Singer 
Written by: Jane Goldman (who wrote First Class)

Starring:

Returning Cast:

James McAvoy and Patrick Stewart as Charles Xavier/Professor X
Michael Fassbender and Ian McKellan as Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto
Jennifer Lawrence as Raven Darkholme/Mystique
Nicholas Coult as Hank McCoy/Beast
Hugh Jackman as Logan/Wolverine
Anna Paquin as Marie/Rouge
Ellen Page as Kitty Pryde/Shadowcat
Shawn Ashmore as Bobby Drake/Iceman
Halle Berry as Ororo Munroe/Storm
Daniel Cudmore as Peter Rasputin/Colossus


New Cast

Fan Bingbing as Clarice Ferguson/Blink

Evan Peters of American Horror Story as Quicksilver. There's a lot of stuff going on with this tidbit, look further down for a detailed description.

Peter Dinklage of Game of Thrones fame has been cast as the villain, purportedly Apocalypse.


Omar Sy, Adan Canto, and Booboo Stewart in unspecified roles.

WHAT

First off, the plot is very vague right now. So far what we know is that the movie will open on the JFK assassination and show that Magneto was the real assassin. The Vietnam War and Civil Rights movement will be involved as well.

John Ottman, who worked on the previous X-Men films, will be scoring this one as well.

Bishop, who is basically a very violent version of Gambit, and Warpath, who has the normal super strength and stamina abilities, will also appear.

There will be a panel for DoFP at Comic Con this year.

The issue around Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch: We know that Fox owns The X-Men right? and Disney owns the Avengers? Well guess what. Somehow, and believe me there is no description anywhere of how this is possible, they both own Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch. Joss Whedon has already written in the brother/sister pair as integral parts of the Avengers 2, when suddenly, 3 days ago, Bryan Singer tweeted "Before he was an Avenger, Quicksilver was just a REALLY fast kid" and announced that Evan Peters would be joining the cast. Now the issue is this: Peters can be Quicksilver in both films, but while he's in Avengers 2 he can't mention he's Magneto's son, and while he's in X-Men he can't mention the Avengers. The second part will be easy, as he becomes an Avenger after the events of DoFP. However, it looks like Whedon will have to either accept that what he can do with the character is limited or find someone new. I don't think it's a coincidence that Singer cast Quicksilver literally 2 weeks after Whedon confirmed he was using him and I don't think it's going to go down too well. But I love AHS and can't wait to see what Peters brings with him. Also Peter Dinklage! Now as a GoT fan that is exciting.

One last thing, this is the 2nd part of the 2nd X-Men trilogy. There will be another to follow this up.

WHEN
July 18, 2014