X-Men Days Of Future Past Trailer: 6 Time-Travelling Headaches Already Created
5. How Will Correcting The Future By Changing The Past Work This Time?
Oh boy, this is a thorny one. This plot device has been used time and time again in cinema in everything from 1984's The Terminator to 2012's Looper, but the X-Men continuity creates a unique problem with it: what will become of the older X-Men cast? Half of the cast in this particular X-Men film reside in a continuity that they are essentially trying to erase. If everything goes according to plan and Young Magneto and Young Charles unite to prevent whatever evil it was from devastating mutant-kind, one would assume it would contradict everything that happened after the "past" period in this movie - circa 1970. Would this mean the end of Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart's iconic takes on these two characters, or will the future timeline simply pull a hard reset back to the days of X2 and before? Or will the future branch off into its own "alternate future" timeline, allowing the past and present X-Men casts to separate once again and re-unite for another crossover feature? The possibilities here boggle the mind, especially when thinking ahead to the X-Men film series after this one. Like the comics they are based on, they can literally go anywhere after bringing time travel into the mix.
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