X-Men Days Of Future Past Trailer: 6 Time-Travelling Headaches Already Created

3. How Does Professor X Talk To Himself?

One of the most compelling scenes in both trailers to this new X-Men movie is a sequence featuring Patrick Stewart and James McAvoy talking to each other. It is a fan-baiting moment, but just how much will the movie have to work to make it make sense? The characters are separated by decades of experience and time, but somehow during the course of the picture will have the opportunity to exchange wisdom. The answer to this question will no doubt come when they explain how the time travel in the vaguely defined technology of X-Men works. Since they are only sending Wolverine's consciousness back in time, one would assume that Cerebro has an important part to play, but that is something of a science fiction cheat - to make a well-defined device do something it clearly hadn't been able to do in previous entries. If that is their method of time travel, they must figure out a way of justifying it within the canon itself. Once we've settled on Cerebro, we've got quite a few options here, involving Cerebro or Xavier from the future speaking through Wolverine or speaking directly to his past self through some kind of cross-time mind-link (it could happen), but the more you think about it, the less clear the answer becomes. Unless they are planning on transporting the young cast to the future, in which case they have opened a completely different can of worms that will be undeniably entertaining but infinitely convoluted.