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Specifically X-Men: Days of Future Past, which will have the pair reprising their respective roles of Professor X and Magneto. Deadline is reporting:
Bryan Singer, who helmed the first two superb installments that launched the franchise at Fox and whom Deadline was first to reveal will helm X-Men: Days of Future Past, has just Tweeted the following news:"I'd like to officially welcome back James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender and Nicholas Hoult to X-Men: Days Of Future Past. Also thrilled to announce Sir Ian Mckellen and Sir Patrick Stewart."
The previously announced return of Singer as director coupled with the timey-wimey nature of the film's storyline -- an adaptation of Chris Claremont's beloved Days of Future Past arc from 1981 -- means that Stewart and McKellen's involvement with this new project isn't exactly a shock. While this development will likely further confuse the already convoluted continuity of the X-Men film series, it does gives the pair the chance to redeem themselves following X-Men: The Last Stand. So consider me officially excited about this news. But what about you guys? Would you rather have had just one Professor X and Magneto in the flick? Make like Banshee and sound off about this below.
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I was kinda hoping they would treat the new films as a total reboot. You're in the 1960s. Stay there. Days of Future past from the Claremont era doesn't work as a sequel when you haven't even introduced Scott or Jean or anyone in the original team aside from Beast. Even the Singer films do not match up well with First Class. To say nothing of how badly they have aged. The more I hear of the plans, the less interested I am at this point
On the one hand I'm happy to see Stewart and McKellen back since I always enjoy their performances (yes, even in X3). On the other hand, I'm worried we'll just be retreading old ground.
Still, if it has Sentinels in it, I'm good with it.
nice looks like bryan is trying to undo the train wreck that was some of x3 or setting up for a future xmen 4 with the original cast plus magneto is part of the resistance of x-men trying to stop days of future past from being a reality. nice the original movie x-men cast crossing with the current crop can not wait to see this now
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If there's anybody that doesn't need to redeem themselves after X3, it's Sirs Stewart and McKellen. They both did the best they could with what they were given.
With any luck, whatever mucking around in time they do in this newest movie will eliminate X3 from canon. God, help me, I'm actually sort of looking forward to this movie, and I haven't bothered seeing any of the X-Movies since number 3.
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Well, last I checked the Marvel comics mutant universe was all kinds of jacked up, why should the Marvel mutant movieverse be any different?
With that said, I'll be looking forward to the movie.
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Nudity - sometimes it's good, sometimes it's horrifying, and sometimes it's historically accurate.
These people bitching about the lack of accuracy in a BBC documentary should be subjected to the ENTIRE RUN of both "The Men Who Built America" and "Mankind: The Story of All of Us" - then they should shut the fuck up. At worst putting clothing on actors portraying peoples who would have been nude deserves a disclaimer caption or other side note - it's hardly something worth pitching a fit over. Whatever faults it may have the BBC won't ignore the existence of an entire sub-continent or present Donald Trump to its viewers as a historian.
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@Gallen_Dugall
its more to do with all the recent huge scandals at the BBC that everything there is being scrutinized so heavily
also donald trump as historian the man who had to sign away nearly everything with the trump name has filed for bankruptcy multiple times and twice tried to sue people for pointing out that he is no longer a billionaire also he manged to run his own casino into the ground one that had mostly slot machines which only need maintenance and security to make a profit that allow you to use credit cards instead of coins so that you end up in huge amounts of debt for the people who spend all day there and yet somehow he found a way to fail at that too how in hell is he seen as a historian in any way other than proof that if your rich enough you will keep going no matter how incompetent you are and people will listen to your advice
his ego is like the Ouroboros snake (eating its own tail) only its made of shit
sorry for the rant but his whole hey Obama show me your birth cert dental records fingerprints and complete blood-work thing pisses me off
@daniel technically Trump has only ever had his companies file for bankruptcy - he never invests his own money in his companies and he is quite well off - corporate laws protect him from any claims of mismanagement. My understanding was that his casino failed because it was set up as a slush fund that he used to grease palms and otherwise maintain the connections in NYNY government which in turn allowed his projects to slide through the mountains of red tape that exist to block unconnected people in NYNY from making an honest living. Corruption and incompetence go merrily hand in hand with one often covering for the other.
The Obama birth thing IMO is used as a shallow argument for the generic anti crowd or a Red Herring to distract from real issues - making it perfect for people like Trump who I lump in with the "professionally famous" crowd.
Not being any politicians fan I have a distinct dislike for the generic "anti" crowds on both sides who tend to pick the most moronic issues to champion - like the anti Bush 9-11 conspiracies. I take issue with Bush's absentee mishandling of rules of war policies, his refusal to even consider tax reform, blatant and casual cronyism, being in bed with Mexican drug lords, gross expansion of executive powers for personal gain, and the blind eye turned to human trafficking (in order to suppress working wages). All of which also happened in the administrations of Obama and Clinton and Bush senior.
Politicians suck. Doesn't matter which party. If they weren't scum bags when they got elected they became scum bags in order to stay in office and keep the scum bags around them happy.
@daniel @Gallen_Dugall Yep, Donald Trump was presented as an expert in history's self made men in "The Men Who Built America", but that series is pretty bad even without that - apparently all unions are good for is labor disruptions and rioting and did nothing to peacefully build the American middle class which in turn had nothing to do with turning the country into an economic world power. Nope, just a handful of supermen lifting the world out of a dark age. That and the fact that all these "Self Made Men" made themselves through connections to non-self made men (and frequent banditry, lies and violence) makes the whole series ring hollow.
But yeah, for some reason the History channel series "Mankind The Story of All of Us" doesn't recognize any of the contributions of India to world history, or even it's existance. For example they credit the "Arabic" numeral system to Muslim mathematicians - when it's clear that the entire system had been in use in India for two hundred years prior to it first showing up in the middle east. They also gave credit for all of India's astronomical achievements to the Muslims. There is pretty much zero mention of India straight through the Renaissance - so the Mongols never went there. Plus they failed to mention irrigation as an important achievement and claimed that prehistoric man lived better lives than modern man.
Most of the problems with "Mankind" stem from the show being done with stock footage from other shows that they owned the rights to - so if they didn't have any stock footage they could pass off as whatever event they didn't show it.
Frankly the whole channel has gone to crap since Oprah Inc took over. Nothing against Oprah, but that channel used to be awesome now the shows are boring, factually misleading at best and frequently insultingly stupid.
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@Gallen_Dugall @daniel my problem with the birth cert thing isn't political i just found it incredibly disrespectful and i dont believe trump buys into any of it hes just a sad little man trying to get attention
iv no interest in either of the two parties as in my country obama would be seen as very conservative in his policies
im just shocked at trump being seen as a historian
also what is this about sub continents
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Thanks Chris as without you this once amazing site would be dead, can't you take over the running of Topless Robot?
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@joedono CHRRRRIIISSSSSSSSS...come out and plaaaaaay...
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YAY! Also, the wife and I recently watched ALL the X-Men movies incl. Wolverine and First Class. There really isn't that much to get in the way of timelines and continuity if you are not steeped in the mythology. We found it very easy to accept that all of the movies took place in the same universe.
Besides, anyone who has watched any amount of a Star Trek series, or a modern sci-fi show such as Fringe, can accept a lot more cookiness with continuation and staying 'true' to the storyline than anything that has been presented in the X-Men movies. If anything, they are rather tame compared to say the end of the new Battlestar Galactica series.
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@Nicnac Yup. I've recently found a way to be pretty much completely at peace with any inconsistencies in the X-Men movies when compared to the established comic stories.
All I do now is imagine that before the movie actually starts, a huge dude in a toga with a gigantic bald head shows up on screen and says "You know, of course, the history of the X-Men and their struggles. But what if things happened in a slightly different manner? Here is a glimpse at one such alternate reality..."
It acutally works fairly well for all the Fox movies.
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@Nicnac I agree, the X Men continuity is like the James Bond continuity. They are mostly self contained stories.
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@jonap I like that explanation. Seems to me the fuss regarding continuity in First Class mostly comes from nerds who are picking on specific minor characters...
This would be like picking to death that Tuvok was on the bridge of Sulu's ship. He wasn't Tuvok, just Tim Russ, but the nerds decided to make it something it wasn't. yes, there was an episode of Voyager that went with it.
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so either there ignoring x3 with patrick stewart in someon else s body at the end or there doing some alternate timeline thing where x3 never happened or hasn't happened yet and seeing how wolverine 2 is set after x3 then maybe its a fixed loop or that iv put way too much time into trying to figure this out than the writers have and i am giving them too much credit that they though this out for it to make sense
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@Someguy I'm far more excited that another article got posted than I am about some movie
