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Bryan Singer Trying To Figure Out If Storm & Nightcrawler Need To Return For 'X-Men: Days Of Future Past'

  • By Ken Guidry
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  • February 12, 2013 9:44 AM
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It’s almost hard to believe that the last "X-Men" film Bryan Singer directed came out almost ten years ago. While the franchise continued to live on in spite of his absence for a number of years, an influx of other, more successful superhero films were birthed in the process, making it more difficult for the "X-Men" franchise to stand out among the pack. But Singer came back on board as a producer for the hit 2011 prequel “X-Men: First Class” and now, as the director of the upcoming “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” he hopes to continue to steer the franchise in the right direction, which means making some important decisions.
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More: Halle Berry, Bryan Singer, X-Men: Days Of Future Past, Alan Cumming

Anna Paquin, Ellen Page & Shawn Ashmore Return For 'X-Men: Days Of Future Past'

  • By Gabe Toro
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  • January 26, 2013 4:03 PM
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  • 2 Comments
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Well, it looks like the gang's all here. Rumors ran rampant that Bryan Singer's "X-Men: Days Of Future Past" would be bringing back a number of the series' more well-known characters, with Hugh Jackman confirmed to appear alongside Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan. But Bryan Singer has confirmed via Twitter that, not only are they looking to bring back as many cast members as possible from the original trilogy, but that Brett Ratner's lambasted "X-Men: The Last Stand" is definitely canon.
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More: X-Men: Days Of Future Past, Shawn Ashmore, Ellen Page, Anna Paquin, Bryan Singer, Brett Ratner

Hugh Jackman Will Break Out His Claws For 'X-Men: Days Of Future Past'

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • November 28, 2012 11:00 PM
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  • 3 Comments
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So can we just go ahead and assume now that the first "X-Men" trilogy, next year's "The Wolverine" and 2014's "X-Men: Days Of Future Past" are all going to tie into together? Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen are already tipped to return, there's that rumored Jean Grey appearance in "The Wolverine" and now this is pretty much the icing on the speculation cake.
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More: X-Men: Days Of Future Past, Hugh Jackman

Ian McKellan & Patrick Stewart Return For 'X-Men: Days Of Future Past'

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • November 27, 2012 3:10 PM
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  • 9 Comments
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Well, this just got a whole lot more interesting. With the upcoming 'X-Men' movie featuring a plot that involves time travel/time jumping to a certain degree, many wondered if this new series would reach back to the first trilogy of films that were capped off by "X-Men: The Last Stand." And now there is a pretty clear argument that it will likely happen.
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More: Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, X-Men: Days Of Future Past, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult

Bryan Singer To Direct 'X-Men: Days Of Future Past'

  • By Edward Davis
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  • October 30, 2012 6:48 PM
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  • 4 Comments
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Director Bryan Singer probably wasn't envisioning coming back to the "X-Men" series this soon. At least not until the potential"X-Men 4" film. Still early in development, that picture isn't arriving anytime soon, but obviously that notion was being explored. Instead, Singer was busy executive producing his many TV shows and the "X-Men" series as relaunched and spearheaded by Matthew Vaughn, with "X-Men: First Class." But Vaughn left the director's chair on that series last week and much like Peter Jackson, who stepped in to take over his baby and helm "The Hobbit" after Guillermo del Toro left the project, Singer is jumping back in the pole position.
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More: Bryan Singer, X-Men: Days Of Future Past

Matthew Vaughn Out, Bryan Singer Possibly In To Direct 'X-Men: Days Of Future Past'

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • October 25, 2012 4:00 PM
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  • 15 Comments
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To put it bluntly, Matthew Vaughn didn't have the most pleasant shooting schedule on "X-Men: First Class." With about ten months from shoot to screen, the director was ridiculously hard pressed for time, and even found himself cycling through five cinematographers on the tumultuous shoot. January Jones famously joked, “Poor (director) Matthew Vaughn is going to have to edit it in three days. That’s been a blast. We’ve all had so much fun making that movie. I think it was unrealistic for them to think they were going to make such a huge movie in whatever we had — two months or something. So of course we went over [schedule]." It's not exactly an ideal situation, and perhaps Vaughn has seen the writing on the wall for "X-Men: Days of Future Past."
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More: X-Men: Days Of Future Past, Matthew Vaughn, Bryan Singer

Mark Millar Basically Says Consultant Role At Fox Is To Protect Their Superhero Movies From Sucking Again

  • By Edward Davis
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  • October 10, 2012 5:39 PM
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After "Iron Man," Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, "The Avengers" and oh, you know, every other title that arrives every six months, comic-book movies are obviously still all the rage. But it wasn't always like that. In the early aughts there were plenty of misfires, with many of them coming from 20th Century Fox: "Daredevil," "Elektra," "Fantastic Four," "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer," and "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" were all mostly moneymakers, but were all generally reviled.  The same applied to lesser-known titles adapted from comics like "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen," which was also a Fox property based off a comic book series written by Alan Moore that was such a bad film it practically sent him to an early grave and hastened Sean Connery's retirement (of course, we're not even counting dreck like Warner Bros.' "Catwoman").
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More: Mark Millar, 20th Century Fox, X-Men: Days Of Future Past, X-Men: First Class

Bryan Singer Confirms 'First Class' Sequel Title Is 'Days Of Future Past,' Hints At "Connectivity" Between X-Men Films

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • August 1, 2012 8:47 PM
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  • 1 Comment
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Okay, so this isn't exactly new, but it is confirmation of rumors that have been making their way around the interwebs for a couple of months now. Yes, the "X-Men: First Class" sequel has a title and it's exactly what you thought it would be if you've been paying attention.
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More: X-Men: Days Of Future Past

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