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I really don't get this sequel. The first one was more than a bit of a mash up of different eras. It wasn't the actual First Class of X-men as much as a proto class before the school was formed. We only got one of the original X-men in Beast and he's already blue.
Now they want to do Days of Future Past from the Claremont days and shove it in before we even meet Scott and Jean? They shoved the Hellfire Club into this earlier time, but I'd say that was the weakest part of the film despite some delicious Baconator chewing the scenes as Shaw.
To me, they should have continued on with the Year One setting. Get Scott and Jean and Warren and Bobby and maybe a few others. Work up to a sequel that introduces Wolverine and new actors for Storm and Colossus and the rest of the All New All Different Claremont team.
And even worse that they're trying to tie this into the older films, even the two Singer ones. No! First of all, it doesn't even fit with what was established in those two and what was established in First Class. Second, the franchise was just getting on its feet again with First class and now it is going to be bogged down with tying it with the old films. And third, the old films really haven't aged well. I was shocked the last time I re-watched them.
Mixing up the old franchise with the new one seems like a bad idea. Does Singer not remember the quagmire that was Superman Returns? I couldn't decide if it was a reboot or a sequel or a remake. This sounds like it's heading dead on for that same problem.
This movie just doesn't sound like it is going to gel well.
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Oh and Wolverine needs to be on his own and reaffirm himself after those last two fiasco. While no longer Aronofsky, I still got hopes for The Wolverine and its Japan setting based on the Claremont and Miller.
And I just realized that I am wearing my Marvel Comics pajama shorts as I type this and there's a panel of Cyclops going. "Wolverine?! What the blazes are you doing here?"
Considering Cyclops and Wolverine have yet to be introduced in the new films, I do wonder why they are sticking Wolverine in already. It's like that bad time in the 90s where every other Marvel book had Wolverine on the cover. Hollywood is pulling the same shit. Stop it.
