Hugh Jackman is in negotiations to reprise his role as Wolverine in X-Men: Days of Future Past, according to THR. Considering Wolverine’s importance to the Days of Future Past storyline, hopefully he’ll be signed on for more than just a cameo like his one line of dialogue in X-Men: First Class (pictured above).
Hugh Jackman isn’t the only one from the original trilogy to return. Earlier this week, Bryan Singer tweeted that Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart would also be returning to the cast of X-Men: Days of Future Past as the older versions of Professor Charles Xavier and Magneto. James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, and Nicholas Hoult are already set to return as well.
The Days of Future Past storyline took place in two issues of Marvel’s Uncanny X-Men published in 1981. The story, written by Chris Claremont, takes place in present day and in an alternate future timeline. The mutants in the present try to avert an event that precipitates an alternate future in which there are no Twinkies most mutants have been killed and the remaining ones are held in concentration camps while giant robots (Sentinels) patrol the U.S.
Matthew Vaughn hints “it’s X-Men meets The Terminator. You’ve got robots, you’ve got time travel, you’ve got superheroes – it’s got everything in one film.” [First Showing]
Well, at least that’s better than X-Men meets Real Steel. If Wolverine were teaching Sentinels to fight so he could reconnect with his estranged son, I would have to get stabby.
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I wonder what the negotiations with Jackman are like. I assume it’s just a producer adding zeros to a number.
Jackman holds his hand out, palm facing up, he moves his fingers towards himself beckoning for more, the producer adds another zero. Jackman beckons again. Another zero. Jackman nods in approval, puts on his claws and adds some grey streaks to his hair. “I’m old Logan now. Let’s film this bitch.”
If his hair didn’t gray from the Civil War to the semi-present in X-Men Origins: Wolverine (more than 100 years), why would it gray in this storyline?
/nerd’d
Because he has grey streaks in his hair in the Days of Future Past storyline in the comics.
/out-nerd’d
Also, even though his aging is slowed doesn’t mean it has stopped entirely. Almost every alternate reality or future version of Wolverine either has grey streaks or a full head of grey hair. Old man logan, Wolverine: the end, Days of Future Past, Earth X, and others.
Grey hair is often caused by stress. I’d be stressed out if bros kept killing my babes. Or especially if my main babe blew herself up.
“If Wolverine were teaching Sentinels to fight so he could reconnect with his estranged son, I would have to get stabby.”
Actually I would be okay if a storyline involved Wolverine, Daken, and Sentinels no matter how you cut it.
Oh, btw, I just read that The Wolverine is actually suppose to be set after The Last Stand has anyone else heard that?
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This was one of my favorite story arcs in the X-Men series. Superior to the whole Phoenix story arc in my opinion. I also believe they used this as a main story line in one season of the animated series.
arguably the best X-Men arc, ever.
I eagerly look forward to this. The Sentinels scared the hell out of me as a kid. And I was exposed to this before Terminator, so it was a big deal.
I always forget, but as you mentioned, “Days of Future Past” was TWO FUCKING ISSUES and it was LEGENDARY. Granted, it had repercussions lasting for years, but TWOFUCKINGISSUES. Marvel would stretch that shit into a heavily delayed 6-issue mini, with a side series for Old Wolverine, one-shots for every single X-man, and then spend 3 issues of all regular X-Men series dealing with an epilogue like “Days of Future Past: Dawn of Future Present”.
Marvel of today, rather.