7. Rebooting The X-Men Series - X-Men: Days Of Future Past
X-Men: Days of Future Past is one of the more intriguing blockbuster franchise films in recent memory, because in adapting the famous comic book arc of the same name, it allowed director Bryan Singer to essentially retcon anything in the series he didn't like, namely various unsavoury plot developments in X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine. At the end of the film, Wolverine saves the day and wakes up in the present to find that in addition to Iceman, Rogue, Colossus, Pryde, Beast, and Storm still being alive, Jean Grey, Cyclops and Professor Xavier (all three of whom died in The Last Stand) have also been resurrected. In addition, most of the events from the first two X-Men films have presumably been erased, though it's left ambiguous as to exactly how much. Though it's a risky proposition to wipe clean events from the great first two films, by rebooting the series through the use of time travel, it doesn't seem quite so harmful: it's massaged into the narrative rather than, say, The Amazing Spider-Man, which jarringly rebooted the series with a new origin story and cast. It's now up to the upcoming X-Men: Apocalypse to prove that this time travel reboot was totally worth it.
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