With the surprise announcement from Bryan Singer last weekend that his sequel to X-Men: First Class, Days of Future Past, was to feature some talent from the prior trilogy of X-Men films – specifically Ellen Page (Kitty Pryde), Anna Paquin (Rogue), and Shawn Ashmore (Iceman) – it got us thinking who else from X-Men lore should show up in the hugely anticipated blockbuster.
The Days of Future Past comic arc is vast and expansive, giving Singer a lot of room to either elide or include whichever characters he so wishes without screwing up the overall continuity or tone of the series.
Naturally, there are some characters who just won’t be a good fit, while there’s others who we’re simply dying to see on-screen once again, and some who can be woven into the narrative in an interesting, clever way if Singer is so inclined.
With its complex time-travelling storyline, there’s no doubting that Days of Future Past has the potential to be a wild, unpredictable, thrilling ride even to those who are familiar with the highly acclaimed source material.
Here are 10 mutants we want to see in X-Men: Days of Future Past…
10. Wolverine
One of the best moments of First Class was the surprise cameo from Hugh Jackman as the beardy, cigar-chomping, adamantium-clawed badass Wolverine, who promptly tells Xavier and Magneto to “Go f**k [themselves]” when they attempt to recruit him into their team in the 1960s. It was probably the best moment of the entire film, and though Jackman has been busy filming The Wolverine, we’d love to see him play a part, no matter how small, in the soupy narrative fabric of Days of Future Past.
If Singer is up to it, he could craftily create a link between this film and The Wolverine, a way of adding legitimacy to the already tainted James Mangold reboot, which nevertheless does sound far more assured than the horrific 2009 treatment.
Granted, there are countless continuity issues to confront here, though that’s something that can be tied up with the time travel narrative relatively easy, and it’ll have the nerds rearing back with their complaints a little if it’s easily explained away. We won’t consider this one likely, but we’ll be damned if it wouldn’t be cool to see ol’ mutton chops slicing through some more baddies; it’s been far too long (even if we don’t have too long to wait for The Wolverine).
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I think this film needs to just rebuild most of the mutants that have already been presented (cyclops, colossus, ice man, jean grey, juggernaut). This franchise has branched out to almost a point of no return if it wasn’t for a very good X-men First Class movie. I’m still hesitant about this movie being any good. Fox has a very bad reputation with its marvel heroes. Here’s to proving me wrong Fox!
I just wanna c apocalypse
the mere fact that you didn’t mention Bishop, Cable nor Apocalypse when speaking about characters we would want to see in a “Days of Future’s Past” blatantly shows that this author has never read any of the comics….disappointing
ps. and rachel summers?!?! are you kidding me!?!?
Bishop, Cable and Apocalypse were not part of the original Days of Future Past story in Uncanny X-Men 141-142.
There were two teams:
Storm, Wolverine, Colossus, Kitty Pryde, Rachel Summers and Franklin Richards in the future
Storm (leader), Wolverine, Colossus, Kitty Pryde, Nightcrawler and Angel in the past
GAMBIT. Please do him right this time.
Hugh Jackman/Wolverine was confirmed for this long before Rogue, Iceman and Kitty.
Wolverine, Iceman, Kitty, Rogue, Magento old/young, Xavier old/young have been confirmed.
Id like to see Cyclops, Jean, Nightcrawler, Beast, Colossus, Storm, Gambit (Played by Josh Holloway)Pyro, Toad and Sabretooth (Xmen1) No recasting bar the ones Ive said
Wolverine and Cyclops!
What about Angel/Archangel.
He needs a greater role in the X-movies.
He was also part of the original first class, so he will have to be apart of some big X-movie
They did screw up the timeline a bit by having Alex Summers be part of the team in the 60s.
But Jubilee? Seriously? She was terrible in the 90s cartoon as an angsty, whiny kid with a passion of getting herself into trouble. I’d vote for having an Age of Apocolypse tease at the end of the movie over having “Julilation Lee” anywhere near it.
It looks like Singer is trying to pull what the Star Trek reboot did and present the X-men films from 1 – 3 (ignoring Origins of course) as the timeline where everything goes to hell (the Sentinals take over, etc.) and the First Class timeline as the one that gets interfered and changed. By doing this, Singer accomplishes what Abrams did with the Trek reboot by cutting off all ties to the previous movies while honoring them at the same time (again, except for Origins).
Jean Grey and Cyclops probably won’t be present in Days of Future Past because of the events of X-Men 3 (although Patrick Stewart is returning as Xavier, so they might come back in some capacity). Nightcrawler would be interesting if they can get Alan Cumming to come back. All that’s left is Halle Berry who for some reason is still holding out on coming back as Storm
Well Halle Berry and Singer did not have a good relationship
I think it will depend on whether they are planning on using the characters as featured in the original story from the comics or whether they are just doing an adaptation featuring different characters like they did for X-Men The Animated Series.
Also Kitty Pryde has barely featured in the X-Men films aside from a cameo in X2 and she’s an integral character in the original story.
As for Rachel Summers her story about being a conditioned hound used to hunt other mutants using her powers has some great potential.
My buddies and I want to see
1. Famke Janssen as White Phoenix of the Crown
because in X-men 3 ( Last Stand )she died as Phoenix who turned into Dark Phoenix, Jean Grey’s storyline isn’t end until Dark Phoenix, it’s still further about ” Phoenix Endsong ” The Phoenix would return to Earth during the mini-series X-Men: Phoenix – Endsong, where it resurrected Jean Grey from her grave. It is not long before she remembers what she has come for — Scott Summers (a.k.a. Cyclops).
Jean’s emotions thinks she’s in love with Scott. She realizes Scott is in love with Emma Frost (former White Queen of the Hellfire Club and headmistress of the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning). Through a number of incidents, including Jean having Wolverine kill her a number of times in X-men 3 ( Last Stand )the Phoenix is truly one entity now, have transcended into the White Phoenix of the Crown, This is signified by a new white costume, her power become more powerful than she was before as Dark Phoenix in X-men 3 ( Last Stand ).
2. Halle Berry as Storm + Charlize Theron as Emma Frost
They both are excellent to be in X-men Days of Future Past 2014 Movie,
Halle Berry in this time as a leader, she must come and she must do extremely action very a lot, bring January Jones out, because her acting was very bad, she didn’t have a charisma, she wasn’t liked Emma Frost, her characters was very bad, so we judge that all January Jones’s point is the worst, change with Charlize Theron is perfect.
4. Apocalypse + Mister Sinister + Holocaust + Exodus + Archangel
Apocalypse
Mister Sinister ( Apocalypse’s partnership )
Holocaust ( Apocalypse’s Son )
Exodus ( Apocalypse’s old member )
Archangel ( Apocalypse’s new member from the X-men )
Keep Rebecca Romijn as Mystique this time really will have to work for Apoclypse
5. other characters what we want to see
- James Marsden, Taylor Kitsch, Ian Somerhalder, Terry Crew =
Cyclops, Gambit, Havok and Bishop
- Alan Cumming, Kelsey Grammer, Daniel Cudmore, Kevin Bacon =
Nightcrawler, Beast, Colossus , Sebastian Shaw
- Angelina Jolie, Ben Foster, Tyler Mane, Ray Park =
Scarlet Witch, Archangel, Sabretooth, Toad
- Kevind Durand, Vinnie Jones, Aaron Stanford, Keanu Reeves =
Blob, Juggernaut, Pyro, Avalanche
Humans
Bruce Davison and Olivia Williams as Senator Kelly and Dr Moira Mactaggart
my best choice and my favorite for all time characters what i love to see ;
Cyclops
Storm
Jean Grey ( Resurrected with bigger role )
Emma Frost
Havok
Gambit
Bishop
Nightcrawler
Beast
Sunfire
Banshee
Colossus
Scarlet Witch
Sabretooth
Mystique
Avalanche
Blob
Juggernaut
Toad
Pyro
Quicksilver
Selene ( The Black Queen )
Sebastian Shaw
Deadpool
Lady Strike
Archangel
i would love to see MAJOR VILLAINS such as ;
Apocalypse
Sinister
Holocaust
Ozymandias
The sad thing about this list and the wishlist comments is that I think in concept we’re crippling the film. I have my own list, of course, and no, a lot of names on it probably won’t be in the movie. (Stewart and McKellan are fine consolation for me though)
What “X-Men First Class” did right was get the character balance JUST right. Everyone who needed a story and more fleshing out got it, everyone who needed or got less didn’t seem ignored (Think Azazel, for example.) If we start getting more characters than are already confirmed it creates one of the problems “The Last Stand” had all over again: Too many characters/arcs/strands that end up getting unsatisfying resolves or worse, NO resolve. I guarantee the two Magnetos/Prefessor Xs alone will take up a bulk of the film.
I hate to say it, but with all the roles announced and MAYBE a couple new recruits in the past, this film’s probably hit its limit as to what it can take and not lose quality.
(And that said, I do wish that there was an X-men film where Cyclops wasn’t sidelined or a plank of laser-shooting wood. Doubt that’ll change this time.)
I agree. It should follow the core team from ‘First Class’ but include the old characters in the future/alternative timeline(s). This will allow all the X-Men films to co-exist dispite continuity issues.
At the end of DOFP we should have a kind of ultimate collection of X-Men; some from the ‘First Class Universe’, some from the ‘Original Trilogy Universe’ going forward together in a new Universe, into the third film (set in the 1980′s) without having to worry about what happened in the already released films…
I always hope Bryan Singer, Mark Millar, the 20th Century Fox can see all comment right here, because you also should listen carefully with X-men Fans who can make this movie very successfully to be perfect
first i just wanna see Facing with Apocalypse way as well, because most people request is Apocalypse, Apocalypse is the most familiar, the most famous a villain boss the X-men’s story for all time, he should appear in this big movie he is also accompanied by Sinister Holocaust Archangel even Exodus. Sentinels / Master Mold of course should be in and what the X-men Mutants villain who would need to see Apocalypse Sinister Holocaust and Exodus
and if I choose 10 top it’s my list and I always hope to see
1.Famke Janssen ( larger role ) yes White Phoenix
2.Halle Berry ( a leading now )
3.Charlize Theron ( she would be perfect )
4.James Marsden ( he is reincarnated in something place )
5.Angelina Jolie ( a new character as Scarlet Witch )
6.Ian Somerhalder ( he is future an older Havok )
7.Taylor Kitsch ( coming again along with Rogue ( Anna Paquin ) )
8.Terry Crew ( no body can change but him as Bishop )
9.Tyler Mane ( coming back as Sabretooth )
10.Vinnie Jones ( coming back as Juggernaut )
plus 6 characters
11. Ryan Reynolds ( the best fight as Deadpool again )
12. Rebecca Romijn ( stay as Rebecca Romijn )
13. Alan Cumming ( he should appear along with Mystique and Rogue )
14. Kelly Hu ( she is come with weapon X as Lady Deathstrike )
15. Kevin Bacon ( Sebastian Shaw again together with Selene )
16. Kelsey Grammer ( an older Beast )
Thank you….
Gambit
Given the time travel theme. I believe it would almost be a given that Bishop will make at least a cameo in this movie. I beleive Mr. Sinister would be an excellent main protagonist. I am trying to be realistic in who I beleive would be in the movie given the “theme”. Sugar Man derives from the alternate future. So a possibility. As far as “wants”..
Firstly, i’d really like to see Sabretooth done right. Someone taller, bulkier and more menacing than Liev Schreiber. As Wolverine’s ongoing nemesis, and the amount of airtime Wolverine has gotten, I think it would be fair to get Sabretooth right. As an essential character, Sabretooth deserves a much better portrayal on the big screen.
Second, and apparently easily forgotten. Omega Red. Being a fan of the 90′s cartoon, seeing Omega Red would do some justice and give credibility to the X-Men reboot. Which is going rather nicely, I just want them to cater to fans of X-Men when it was in it’s hayday.
Next up is another remake of a character that must be served better justice… Juggernaut. As badly as he was portrayed in The Last Stand, it was almost comical. I admit, to introduce his character correctly on the big screen would be rather difficult. His proportion especially. With advances in CGI, it could be possible. However, unlike the Hulk in the Avengers, it would be almost impossible to make him completely CGI and believable at the same time.
I could go on and on, but the final character I really want to see in the upcoming movie is Apocalypse. It HAS to be Apocalypse like so many other people have suggested. I believe he WILL be in this movie, but not until the very end. I can only pray they get his character right. In the past, some of the best villains were utter disappointments.