In case you haven’t heard, the newest X-Men movie is set in the 70s. Of course with this new X-Men: Days of Future Past photo , that isn’t hard to figure out. Nicolas Hoult as Hank McCoy, James McAvoy as Charles Xavier, and of course, Hugh Jackman as Wolverine all looking rather dashing in this newest X-Men: Days of Future Past photo. Directed by Bryan Singer, the newest X-Men also stars Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, Halle Berry, Anna Pacquin, and Peter Dinklage. Filming has wrapped up and the film is scheduled to hit theaters on May 23rd.
Okay, so maybe this isn’t quite as revealing as the Jennifer Lawrence bikini photos , but it’s close. Lawrence’s extremely form-fitting Mystique get-up is highlighted in a new set photo tweeted by Bryan Singer . Take a look: Lawrence returns for the new film along with fellow First Class cast members James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, and Nicholas Hoult. Days of Future Past combines the timeline from the prequel with that of the original trilogy, with Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman, Ellen Page and Halle Berry also starring. Singer directs the film, which will mark the seventh installment of the X-Men Franchise. X-Men: Days of Future Past will hit theaters July 18, 2014.
The most interesting part of Bryan Singer ‘s return to the X-Men franchise he helped launch is that in directing X-Men: Days Of Future Past ,” the sequel to Matthew Vaughn’s 1962-set prequel X-Men: First Class , he’ll have helmed films in different sub-series timelines within the same franchise. The only other example akin to this sort of thing might be in the James Bond universe, with directors like Guy Hamilton, Lewis Gilbert, John Glen, and Martin Campbell helming different Bond pics with different 007 actors in the role. Singer directed 2000’s X-Men and 2003’s X2 to great commercial success before handing over the reigns to Brett Ratner for X-3: The Last Stand , but he remained onboard the franchise as Vaughn stepped up to direct First Class , which he produced. He’ll also produce Days of Future Past , which is set to bring back stars Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, and Jennifer Lawrence and already has a release date of July 18, 2014. At this point Singer is uniquely invested in the X-Men franchise, and now that he’s done with Jack The Giant Killer he’ll turn his attentions back to the mutant comic book adaptation series. While he’s a safe choice for the directing gig, his last superhero outing, however, was the disappointing Superman Returns . Thoughts, Movieliners? [ Deadline ]
An unusual thing happened to Kal Penn on the way to stardom: in April 2009, after making two successful franchise-starting Harold & Kumar comedies, appearing in Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns , and co-starring on TV’ s House , the rising actor opted to take a two-year sabbatical from Hollywood to work in the Obama administration. This week, he returns to screens as Kumar to John Cho’s Harold in A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas , which finds the former hamburger-seeking BFF s facing new, daunting life changes and, in the spirit of the holidays, renewing their friendship the old fashioned way: With giant spliffs, babies on drugs, and Claymation.
On Friday, July 14, 2000 , Bryan Singer’s X-Men earned $20.7 million at the box office, on the way toward an opening weekend of $54 million. Just shy of eleven years later, Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class earned $21 million on Friday night, and should be on course for an opening frame totaling $53 million. Symmetry! Elsewhere, The Hangover Part II dropped 65 percent from Friday to Friday, but the record-breaking sequel still earned $11 million last night. That kind of scratch buys plenty of smoking monkeys . Your Friday box office is here.
Everyone seems to love the retro ’60s vibe of Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class . But do we really want to see Professor Xavier, Magneto, and Co. slogging through the not-quite-as-fashionable 1970s and 1980s in potential sequel story lines? (Think hard about this. On the one hand: Magneto in bellbottoms doing lines with Emma Frost at Studio 54. On the other: Dazzler.)
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