Re: Bryan Singer's X-Men: Days of Future Past
I was watching some of the time travel episodes of the X-Men cartoon, which got me thinking about how it'll be plated out in the movie-verse
If i was in charge i'd make the existing X1-X3 the alternate timeline to that of the First Class timeline.
If you consider the flow of the 'present time' X-movies, it makes sense for the Sentinels and dystopian future to be the future.
In order for the Sentinel program to be activated after a temporal event that event would have to take place after X3, so if that even takes place in DOFP it would change the timeline erasing the events of X1-X3 allowing Mutankind & Humankind to interact differently.
So let's look at the films.
First Class
Mutantkind is secret, few humans know of their existence, mutantkind is a myth similiar to Bigfoot or Area-51, not believed or taken seriously by the majority.
The CIA and military side of the government are the first to see mutantkind in all it's glory (Mystique) and are bewildered. They now know of mutantkind but know nothing about how or how much of a race they are or their true powers.
X-Men
Many Years later Mutantkind is now know to every tom, rich and harry and the problem of 'whose planet is this' has arisen.
Senator Kelly wants mutants made illegal and either deported locked up or killed. Magneto tries to turn humans into mutants but fails thank to the X-Men.
X2
Now things get really interesting. William Stryker hates mutantkind, he's spent his life trying to control them and failed, so now he wants to extinguish them. Knowing of Charles Xaviers power he paints the X-Men as a threat to the US government by arranging an assassination attempt on the President, this gives him the power he needs to scatter the X-Men while he kidnaps and attempts to use Prof X to genocide mutantkind.
He is stopped by the X-Men and Magneto. Magneto uses this opportunity for his own agenda to genocide Humankind.
At the end all of humanity now realise the level of power that mutankind has over every human on the planet.
X-men 3
The government wishes the end of Mutantkind, but are above outright killing every mutant because of a 50% sense of humanity and 50% taking into account the world watching them.
So they manufacture a "cure", first said to be optional but then used to suppress mutantkind without the need for locking them up or exterminating them. This fails as it becomes apparent that the cure isn't permenant.
So what's the logical next step?
They can't live alongside mutantkind because eventually there'll be a mutant capable of witing out humanity who isn't held back by his own humanity like Charles Xavier. They've tried suppressing the mutant gene and it failed.
The only next step is to inhibit mutankind by force, which leads us to the Sentinal program.
It's my theory that the best way to move the franchise forward is to have the key temporal event in the '70's be what sets in motion the chain of events of mutantkind become known to the general public as living weapons.
This leads to the events of X1 onwards to the Sentinel Program.
By having Kitty and possibly others go back in time to stop this event, it keeps Mutantkind hidden from the public long enough for them to out themselves in a calm and non-hostile method which sets the timeline that pans out differently than what we've seen in X1-X3
Thus rebooting the present day team and storyline
What dya think?
Him playing Boliver Trask would be cool. Ironic too
He coud be doing the voice of the CGI character. Master Mold perhaps
