X-Men: Days of Future Past is a 2014 superhero sci-fi adventure action film based on the fictional X-Men characters that appear in Marvel Comics. Directed by Bryan Singer, it is the seventh installment of the X-Men film series and acts as a sequel to both 2006's X-Men: The Last Stand and 2011's X-Men: First Class. The story, inspired by the 1981 Uncanny X-Men storyline "Days of Future Past" produced by Chris Claremont and John Byrne, focuses on two time periods and Wolverine going to 1973 to save the future of mankind. The film stars an ensemble cast, including Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Halle Berry, Anna Paquin, Elliot Page, Peter Dinklage, Sir Ian McKellen, and Patrick Stewart. Simon Kinberg wrote the screenplay from a story conceived by him, Matthew Vaughn, and Jane Goldman.
The film is a British-American co-production with a budget of US$200 million. Principal photography began in Montreal, Quebec in April 2013 and concluded in August the same year, with additional filming and pick-ups taking place in November 2013 and February 2014. The film premiered in New York City on May 10, 2014, and was theatrically released on May 23.
X-Men: Days of Future Past has received critical acclaim and is the 2nd best-reviewed film in the X-Men film series (Behind Logan). Reviewers commended its fresh visual style, story, pacing, acting and depth. It is also the highest-grossing film in the series, having earned over $748 million worldwide. It also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects, making it the first X-Men film to be nominated for an Academy Award.
A sequel, X-Men: Apocalypse, is scheduled for release on May 27, 2016, with Bryan Singer returning to direct.
Plot[]
Theatrical Cut[]
In a dystopian 2023, where the world has been ravaged by constant war, we find Central Park turned into a prison camp with mutants under Sentinel guard. Mutants are being hunted to extinction by the Sentinels or experimented on to exploit their abilities by the remaining humans. In Moscow, Warpath, Blink, Bishop, Colossus and Sunspot, are preparing to fight dispatched Sentinels that continue to hunt the X-Men. As the Sentinels enter in the underground hideout, the Sentinels attack them. Sunspot fires at a Sentinel which holds it back. As the rest of the X-Men fight the other two Sentinels we see how they share Raven's ability to mimic, the Sentinels quickly adapt to the mutants' abilities. Blink finds Iceman and makes a portal for him to enter to defend Shadowcat and Bishop who run to change the past, and save the group. A Sentinel snaps Sunspot's neck, Colossus's head got smashed, Iceman has his head broken off and crushed. Buying time for Bishop in the past...Blink gets skewered right in the navel and Warpath (while making a last stand in front of the vault door) gets vaporized. The Sentinel melts through the vault door and shoots an energy beam towards Bishop and Kitty, she looks up stating "too late, assholes" and everything slows in time and begins to fade away as it has never happened, revealing that they did indeed change the past; having never been in Moscow to begin with. The scenes then fades to Xavier's Cerebro red Mutant view where countless mutants are being killed by Sentinels or tortured by humans and screams and cries are heard. Mutants are on the brink of extinction.
We now cut to a new and highly advanced version of the X-Jet capable of supersonic flight (beyond the speed a sentinel can catch them) where we hear Charles say "I've found them..." And they head full speed towards a mountain range in China.
Charles Xavier, Magneto, Wolverine, and Storm arrive to find mutants hiding in China, where they plan to send Professor X back to 1973 to stop Mystique from killing Bolivar Trask, which triggered the Sentinel Program. However, Wolverine volunteers to go back due to his regenerative powers, and because Professor X couldn't physically handle going back decades. As the X-Men hide themselves in a monastery, Wolverine is sent back to the past by Shadowcat before asked by Professor X and Magneto to unite them together to change the future, saying that this is their final chance to change the past, or it will worsen.
Wolverine wakes up in 1973 where is seen in a bed filled with water with a woman's arm around him. Three men then walk in and begin to fire at him but are killed with Wolverine's bone claws. Wolverine then arrives at the disused mansion, where he makes an encounter with Hank McCoy who ends up transforming into his Beast-like form. As Wolverine is thrown around the house, Professor X comes down where Wolverine then asks his help, who disagrees, saying that he remembered him from eleven years back. As Hank explains why the Professor is walking, Professor X takes one more dose of the drug which makes him walk again. He then comes down and agrees to help but only for Mystique and not for the future. They then plan to break Erik out of prison for killing President John F. Kennedy. Wolverine mentions that he knows a man who can run really fast as the three then head to Peter Maximoff's house and asks him to help. Meanwhile, Trask asks for funding for his Sentinel program but is denied. In Saigon, Mystique disguises herself as a colonel and then fights off the military where she rescues Havok, Ink, Toad and other mutant soldiers to be sent to Trask Industries.
At the Pentagon, Charles, Wolverine, Quicksilver and Hank sneak into the facility and free Erik. Quicksilver disguises himself as someone to bring him food but brings a note with it. Quicksilver then breaks the glass and then frees Magneto. While in the elevator, the two share a moment where Quicksilver says that his mother knew a man who could control metal like him referencing that Erik was Quicksilver's dad. Onboard a plane, Charles and Erik argue over how they each abandoned each other and their kind, resulting in their deaths. Meanwhile, Mystique impersonates a general at a meeting in Paris where she plans to kill Trask, but is unsuccessful as she gets tasered in the belly button by William Stryker. Wolverine, Charles, Erik and Hank arrive, where Erik plans to kill Mystique to prevent the program. She is shot in the leg while in the air after escaping through the window. Erik chases after her and pulls the bullet out of her leg and plans to drive it through her deep umbilicus, but Beast attacks Erik while Mystique escapes. Meanwhile, Wolverine sees Stryker and has traumatic flashbacks. In 2023, Wolverine starts violently shaking and stabs Shadowcat in the navel. Back in 1973, he briefly does not know why he’s there and who young Charles is.
President Richard Nixon eventually agrees to Trask’s program and arranges an unveiling in Washington D.C. Magneto breaks into Trask’s Industries and steals the design plans of the Sentinels and implants metal on the Sentinels on a train to D.C. Back at the mansion, Charles eventually refuses to take a serum after Wolverine convinces him, which allows him to walk again but lose his powers, and uses Cerebro to find Mystique. As Wolverine explains what he has done for mutants and for him, he tells him to read his mind where he sees his traumatic experiences and then later telepathically talks to the older Professor X where he is asked to hope again.
As Wolverine, Professor X and Hank go to the unveiling of the Sentinels to find Mystique, the Sentinels begin attacking the public, where Nixon and Trask are taken to a safe room, followed by Mystique in disguise. Magneto lifts an entire stadium and transports it to surround the White House and puts all but one Sentinel on lookout, and makes it to go after Wolverine and Beast. Wolverine attacks it but Magneto stabs him with reinforcement steel then drowns him in a nearby river. At the same time in 2023, Storm, Bishop, Colossus, Warpath, Sunspot, Iceman and Blink are killed protecting the monastery. When Trask discovers Mystique is in the safe room, Magneto pulls the safe room out of the White House. Beast injects himself with the serum to turn back into his human form so that the Sentinel will not attack him. Mystique slightly grazes Magneto with a plastic gun before being convinced by Professor X via telepathic powers to not kill Trask. Back in 2023, the Sentinels are close to firing upon the X-Men but everyone disappears. As a mutant was seen to save the President, the Sentinel program is decommissioned and Trask is charged with trying to sell American military secrets to other countries.
Logan wakes up back in the school and sees that Ororo, Kitty, Peter, Bobby, Hank, Rogue, Jean Grey and Cyclops all have survived. Logan finds Charles, who lets him know that they have a lot of catching up to do. Back in 1973, Mystique, impersonating Stryker, recovers the drowning Wolverine from the water.
In a post credits scene people are seen bowing and chanting to En Sabah Nur as the Four Horsemen watch from afar.
Rogue Cut[]
When Xavier explains his plan to the surviving X-Men to travel back to 1973 and prevent Trask's death, Bishop is the first to argue against it and explains that he does not want to sacrifice himself for a future where he and the others may never be born. Blink and Sunspot are quick to echo his sentiments, but Xavier and Storm are able to convince them otherwise so that all of mutant-kind will get a second chance.
After Shadowcat is severely injured by Wolverine, Iceman gives her first aid and informs both Xavier and Magneto that she's lost too much blood and might not stay conscious for much longer. He also explains to them that Rogue - the only mutant who could take Shadowcat's place - is currently imprisoned in Cerebro and the only reason why they weren't able to rescue her before is because the X-Mansion is too heavily guarded. Concerned over Shadowcat's safety and the possibility that she might pass out from blood loss before Wolverine can carry out the mission, Xavier agrees to help Iceman rescue Rogue and the two of them, accompanied by Magneto, head out to the X-Mansion in the X-Jet.
With Xavier's guidance, Iceman and Magneto successfully infiltrate the mansion and rescue Rogue, but before they can make it back to the X-Jet, the three of them are attacked by a group of Sentinels and Iceman is killed while buying enough time for the others to escape. Rogue and Magneto make it aboard the X-Jet, but before they can take off, they are attacked by another Sentinel. Professor X manages to maneuver the Sentinel off the jet, but not before the robot jams a piece of its arm into the side of the ship.
In 1973, Mystique returns to the X-Mansion and shares an intimate moment with Beast after he fixes up her wounded leg. During the night, she sneaks into Cerebro and destroys the computer. The next morning, Beast wakes up to find the damage that Mystique left behind and comes to believe that all hope is lost until he remembers that Trask will be present at the unveiling of the Sentinels in Washington and realizes that Raven will definitely be there as well.
In 2023, Rogue arrives at the remote Chinese monastery where the X-Men have gathered and solemnly informs Shadowcat that Iceman didn't make it before copying her powers and taking her place, which Wolverine senses back in 1973. The Sentinel arm trapped inside the X-Jet is revealed to be a beacon, alerting the other Sentinels to the location of the monastery. After Magneto is severely injured during the ensuing Sentinel attack, instead of Blink creating a portal for him to enter the monastery like she did in the theatrical cut, Shadowcat uses her phasing ability to pull him inside instead.
In an additional post-credits scene that was not shown in the theatrical cut, Trask is revealed to have been imprisoned inside Magneto's old cell in the Pentagon.
Cast[]
- Hugh Jackman as Logan / Wolverine:
A mutant with accelerated healing, heightened animal-like senses, and—in 1973—retractable bone claws; in the future, his skeleton and claws are laced with adamantium in his body, making him virtually invulnerable. His healing factor also slows his aging, allowing him to live above the lifespan of an ordinary human. Jackman noted how Wolverine driving the plot in spite of his gruff personality made for interesting story choices, as "if you want someone to go back to take someone's head off, fantastic, but he's really got to go back and almost act in parts as inspiration, as mentor, as guide, because he can't do it all on his own, which is always his preferred method".[5] - James McAvoy / Patrick Stewart as Charles Xavier / Professor X:
A mutant pacifist and the world's most powerful telepath. He is also the founder of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, and the leader of the X-Men. Singer described the younger Xavier as "a very different beast from First Class's feckless playboy. He's a wounded animal, bearded, long-haired, filled with rage at the way the world has treated him".[6] Kinberg said the film was intended to be the story of the younger Xavier beginning to "become the Professor Xavier we know" as Wolverine mentored him.[7] - Michael Fassbender / Ian McKellen as Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto:
A powerful mutant who can manipulate magnetic fields. While he dissents with Xavier due to a wish to prove mutant-kind's superiority, they revert to being allies as the older Erik helps the X-Men battle against Sentinels in the future. - Jennifer Lawrence as Raven / Mystique:
A mutant with shapeshifting ability, and also Xavier's childhood friend and adopted sister. Singer said Mystique "is less innocent, evolved, getting closer to where Mystique was in X-Men 2".[8] Lawrence had suffered skin irritations from the full body make-up used in First Class, and the process was changed so from the neck down it would be a bodysuit,[9] whose zipper was digitally removed in post-production.[10] As a result, the make-up process was reduced from eight hours to three.[11] The make-up team at Legacy Effects sculpted Mystique's scales digitally, making them shorter in size and placed in a way that they would accentuate Lawrence's face.[12] - Halle Berry as Storm:
A mutant who can manipulate weather and is one of the most battle-tested and powerful X-Men. Asked if her pregnancy affected her role, Berry replied, "I wasn't in as much as I was meant to be. My ever-growing belly was posing a constant challenge! What I could do was getting more limited so the role that I play is so different from what it could have been, due to my surprise pregnancy".[13] According to Kinberg, Berry had another scene in the film that was cut because of Berry's limited schedule.[14] - Anna Paquin as Rogue:
A mutant who could absorb the life force and mutant abilities of anyone she touches until taking a cure in The Last Stand. Kinberg wrote a shorter part for Paquin than initially planned because she had little time to be on set.[14] During post-production, Paquin's role was reduced to a cameo after most of her scenes were cut; these scenes were later restored on an alternate version of the film, which was released to home media.[15][16][17][18] According to Kinberg, Rogue was to be rescued by the future Magneto and Xavier to provide the elder characters a mission, "something like Unforgiven". Eventually, the producers felt it was a subplot that did "not service the main story", and reshot scenes to replace them.[19] However, she was still featured in the film's various promotional materials.[20][21] Paquin later stated that she still had fun making the film and did not mind that the majority of her scenes had been cut from it.[22][23] - Elliot Page[lower-alpha 1] as Kitty Pryde:
A mutant who can pass through solid objects. As the youngest member of the X-Men, she plays an important role in their fight for survival.[24] Singer described Pryde as the prime facilitator and that Pryde's phasing ability enables time-travel to happen.[25] Kinberg, when asked why Pryde is not the time-traveler in the film adaptation of the comic-book story, said, "[If] we tried to follow the original and use Kitty, we had a problem because [Elliot] is 25 years old and [he'd] be -20 in the First Class era".[7] - Peter Dinklage as Dr. Bolivar Trask:
A military scientist and the head of Trask Industries who creates a range of robots called Sentinels, designed to find and destroy mutants. Dinklage said Trask "sees what he's doing as a good thing—[his ambition is] definitely blind and he's quite arrogant. He has striven all his life for a certain respect and attention". He also said Trask is opposed by Richard Nixon.[26] Singer said he is a fan of Dinklage and of the television series Game of Thrones in which Dinklage stars as Tyrion Lannister, which inspired him to cast Dinklage.[14] - Nicholas Hoult as Hank / Beast:
A mutant with leonine attributes, super-strength, agility, reflexes and enhanced speed. Hoult plays the character in scenes set in 1973 while Kelsey Grammer makes an uncredited cameo appearance as Beast in the future setting.[27] The cameo was added because the writers felt Hoult's Beast was "such a sweet, young character" that audiences would want to learn he survived.[28] Once Grammer learned of this opportunity to return as Beast, a character he had enjoyed playing in The Last Stand, he called Singer asking to get involved, and was flown from New York in secret to avoid drawing attention.[29] - Shawn Ashmore as Bobby / Iceman:
A mutant who can create and manipulate ice. Ashmore said about his role, "In the first X-Men I had to make a rose for Rogue but that was the extent of the character, so it's cool to see over these four movies going from that to X2—where you sort of see him do an ice wall—and in X3 he finally gets to battle, and in Days of Future Past we're soldiers".[30] - Omar Sy as Bishop:
A mutant who can absorb energy and redirect it in kinetic blasts. Singer said Bishop, along with Warpath, Sunspot and Blink, are not fresh recruits. He said, "they're more refugees that are living day to day in this hideously ruined world. They don't have much hope in the future. They're on the run and they join forces with the remaining X-Men to try to do this one last attempt at fixing the world".[31] - Evan Peters as Peter / Quicksilver:
A mutant who can move, speak and think at supersonic speeds. Peters described Quicksilver as "very fast, he talks quick, he moves quick. Everything else is very slow compared to him, it's like he's always at the ATM waiting for the bastard in front of him to finish".[32] - Josh Helman as Maj. Bill Stryker:
A military officer who hates mutants. Helman was originally chosen to play a younger version of Juggernaut before that character was removed from the script.[33] Brian Cox, who portrayed adult Stryker in X2, appears in archive footage. - Daniel Cudmore as Colossus:
A mutant who can transform his body into organic steel, which grants him superhuman strength, stamina, and durability while in that form. Cudmore was asked whether he trained for his role, he replied, "I didn't have a ton of time to get film ready for this. A trainer friend of mine from Vancouver put together a quick little workout program for me. Since the role was for Colossus, I was aiming to bulk up a bit and get stronger. I ended up eating a lot more. Because of how much I was eating, I had to eat every 2-3 hours to keep my calories up".[34] - Fan Bingbing as Blink:
A mutant who can create portals to teleport. Fan said the film was the first of a five X-Men movie contract she signed with 20th Century Fox.[35] - Adan Canto as Sunspot:
A mutant with the ability to project solar energy and create flames while also possessing solar-powered strength and flight.[36] Canto had read the X-Men comics as a child, and after he was cast, went back to research the comics to further understand Sunspot's character.[37] - Booboo Stewart as Warpath:
A bowie knife-wielding mutant and expert tracker with super agility, reflexes, stamina, acute senses and enhanced strength. In preparation for the role, Stewart gained 50 pounds and grew his hair much longer than usual.[38]
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X-Men: Days of Future Past received critical acclaim from critics with a rating of 90% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 321 reviews with an average score of 7.53/10.
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