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Kinberg says Days of Future Past was intended as a "final goodbye" for the original cast.
BY: LUCY O'BRIEN
MAY 27, 2014
X-Men: Days of Future Past screenwriter Simon Kinberg has opened up on how he will manage the film's dual casts in its sequel, X-Men: Apocalypse.
As those of you who have seen the film know, Days of Future Past ultimately 'undoes' the events of 2006's X-Men: The Last Stand, resurrecting many beloved characters in a brilliant twist of time travel. Could this possibly mean we'll see some of the original cast in the next iteration of the X-Men series, set in the '80s? Kinberg is ultimately non-committal, but says Days of Future Past was written as a send off to Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Ellen Page, James Marsden, Halle Berry et al.
"We approached it as a final goodbye for the original actors," the screenwriter told The Hollywood Reporter. "But to be totally candid, that's the way I approached X-Men: The Last Stand. If you talked to me in 2006 and said, "Do you think we'll ever see Patrick Stewart as Professor Xavier again? Do you think we'll see Ian and Halle and Ellen Page and Shawn Ashmore back on screen together?" I most likely would have said no, and certainly in the case of Patrick Stewart I would have said no way. There's some part of our brains that hopes we will see them again, but we wanted to tell a story that felt like it was a conclusion to their stories."
While this response could be interpreted as fairly finite, Kinberg was less emphatic when talking to The Daily Beast on the same subject.
"[Apocalypse] will focus primarily on the First Class cast," he told the site, "but it will certainly have some of the original cast involved, too."
This is something of a mind-bender from a chronological standpoint, considering most of X-Men's original cast members would be children in the '80s. But hey, Days of Future Past proved that if anyone can handle that kind of logic-defying narrative with skill, it's Kinberg.
Kinberg says Days of Future Past was intended as a "final goodbye" for the original cast.
BY: LUCY O'BRIEN
MAY 27, 2014
X-Men: Days of Future Past screenwriter Simon Kinberg has opened up on how he will manage the film's dual casts in its sequel, X-Men: Apocalypse.
As those of you who have seen the film know, Days of Future Past ultimately 'undoes' the events of 2006's X-Men: The Last Stand, resurrecting many beloved characters in a brilliant twist of time travel. Could this possibly mean we'll see some of the original cast in the next iteration of the X-Men series, set in the '80s? Kinberg is ultimately non-committal, but says Days of Future Past was written as a send off to Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Ellen Page, James Marsden, Halle Berry et al.
"We approached it as a final goodbye for the original actors," the screenwriter told The Hollywood Reporter. "But to be totally candid, that's the way I approached X-Men: The Last Stand. If you talked to me in 2006 and said, "Do you think we'll ever see Patrick Stewart as Professor Xavier again? Do you think we'll see Ian and Halle and Ellen Page and Shawn Ashmore back on screen together?" I most likely would have said no, and certainly in the case of Patrick Stewart I would have said no way. There's some part of our brains that hopes we will see them again, but we wanted to tell a story that felt like it was a conclusion to their stories."
While this response could be interpreted as fairly finite, Kinberg was less emphatic when talking to The Daily Beast on the same subject.
"[Apocalypse] will focus primarily on the First Class cast," he told the site, "but it will certainly have some of the original cast involved, too."
This is something of a mind-bender from a chronological standpoint, considering most of X-Men's original cast members would be children in the '80s. But hey, Days of Future Past proved that if anyone can handle that kind of logic-defying narrative with skill, it's Kinberg.
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