Bryan Singer Discusses Epicness of X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST

I'm very excited that Bryan Singer is returning to the X-Men franchise, directing Days of Future Past. He's currently in the process of developing the film, and in a recent interview with Empire Magazine, he talked about the epicness of the film's story, and how he had a conversation with James Cameron about time travel saying,

It's epic. I don't think people realise how big this movie's going to be. We get to bring both casts together. We've cracked it in a way that it makes sense. I had a two-hour conversation with James Cameron about time travel, string theory, multiverses and all that. You have to create your rules and stick wtih them. That's why Terminator and Back To The Future work so well. And there are certain mechanisms in X-Men, certain powers, perceptions and characters, that make this possible.

I'm sure by now Singer has figured out what his rules are for time travel. He goes on to talk about the source material, and explains that even though it will be different it will still honor the original comic.

It has a lot of aspects of the comic. The actual comic of Days Of Future Past had a whole ton of stuff going on, so it’s like any of these things; you have to distill it. But I think the fans will be pleased that some of the most exciting parts of Days Of Future Past are going to be connected to this movie.

The director then reveals that the movie will take into account every X-Men movie that has been made including Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine, regardless of the continuity issues. 

I’m taking into account every movie – I’m not just grabbing my first two movies and First Class and smashing them together. I’m taking into account the entire universe as it’s been laid out so far on the screen, and really respecting it and trying to work with that. People took things in various directions, so there’s some clean-up. But ultimately I’m not just ignoring them either.

I wish he would ignor the films mentioned about, but if he can make it work for this movie then so be it. Singer also says that he'll continue to use his twitter account to make his casting announcements, which has been really cool.

I’ll be using Twitter as an avenue. I think Twitter is an amazing thing. Very often something gets out there in the rumour-sphere, and people start building up an impression of something that might not be right. So what I want to do is just little by little drop out whatever information is official.

So far the confirmed cast members for the film include Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Anna Paquin, Ellen Page, Shawn Ashmore and Hugh Jackman.

The movie is set to be released on July 18th, 2014. Simon Kinberg wrote the script, and it is based on Chris Claremont and John Byrne's comic book storyline, Days of Future Past, that ran in "Uncanny X-Men" #141 and 142 back in 1981. The story is set in an alternate future where surviving mutants have been thrown in concentration camps, Sentinels are patrolling America, and most of the X-Men have been hunted down and killed. The present day X-Men are forced to stop a key event from unfolding in order to keep that future from occurring.