New ‘X-Men: Days Of Future Past’ Photo; Mark Millar Hints At Connectivity With ‘Fantastic Four’
By Russ Fischer/Aug. 19, 2013 10:30 am EST
The shot above is the image released to celebrate the wrap of shooting on Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past, which finished it’s last days over the weekend.
The pic shows the film’s core characters. While we know that the film really brings together the cast of Singer’s original movies with the cast from the First Class prelude, Comic Con footage and other materials that have emerged since really suggest that this is a story about the evolution of Charles Xavier, with fellow First Class teammate Beast along for the ride and Wolverine as a guiding force. And so there’s your core trio.
We get the sense that, in the post-Tom Rothman Fox, there’s a goal to emulate Marvel’s approach in building a connected set of films and characters. And since the comic book incarnations of the X-Men and Fantastic Four have several crossovers and relations, there’s reason to think that we could see the same on film.
Mark Millar, who may or may not have a big role in Fox’s roadmap to superhero success (depending upon who you talk to) told SFX that there’s definite crossover potential with these movies.
That certainly sounds like we might expect to see a character from the X-Men films show up in Fantastic Four, or perhaps vice-versa. (Franklin Richards wouldn’t be out of place in the future scenes of Days of Future Past, for example. But if he’s in the film it’s a well-kept secret.) Then Millar said this to clarify:
I keep seeing ’news’ that X-Men & FF movies are crossing over. No, they’re not. They exist in same universe but movies stand alone.
— Millarworld (@mrmarkmillar) August 19, 2013
Let me put it like this. It will seamlessly exist in the X-Men cinematic universe, but it’s not a sequel.
X-Men: Days of Future Past, starring Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult, Anna Paquin, Ellen Page, Shawn Ashmore, Peter Dinklage, Omar Sy, Halle Berry and many more, will be released May 23, 2014.
