The Trailer To X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST Is HERE!!

The first extended look at X-Men: Days of Future Past is finally here. The follow-up to 2011's X-Men: First Class brings back the series' original mastermind Bryan Singer as director, who saw fit to adapt the seminal '80s comic book time travel story that allows original cast members like Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Halle Berry and Ian McKellen share the screen with Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy and Jennifer Lawrence.

In the original arc penned by Chris Claremont, in a dystopian future Mutants have been exiled to concentration camps by the robotic Sentinels, which were created by Dr. Bolivar Trask. Kitty Pryde sends her consciousness back in time into her younger self to assist the X-Men in preventing the assassination of Senator Kelly by The Brotherhood of Mutants, and change the anti-Mutant future that awaits.

The film swaps Kitty Pryde (sorry Ellen Page) with Hugh Jackman's far more bankable big screen Wolverine as the timeline traveler, and like any Bryan Singer production, promises to deliver big with dark character development and action.

X-Men: Days of Future Past, set for May 23rd, 2014 in 3D, has enlisted an all-star Mutant line-up of Hugh Jackman (Wolverine), Jennifer Lawrence (Mystique), James McAvoy (Charles Xavier), Michael Fassbender (Erik Lehnsherr), Patrick Stewart (Professor X), Ian McKellen (Magneto), Nicholas Hoult (Beast), Peter Dinklage (Dr. Bolivar Trask), Halle Berry (Storm), Ellen Page (Kitty Pryde), Shawn Ashmore (Iceman), Omar Sy (Bishop), Anna Paquin (Rogue), Fan Bingbing (Blink), Daniel Cudmore (Colossus), Boo Boo Stewart (Warpath), Evan Peters (Quicksilver), Josh Helman (William Stryker), Adan Canto (Sunspot) and Lucas Till (Havok).

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How Much Awards Gold Has The Cast of 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' Won? Bryan Singer Wants You To Know

X-Men: Days of Future Past director Bryan Singer just tweeted a pic of his impressive cast's headshots  pinned on a bulletin board with a count of the awards they have collectively won. Even looking at them as just pictures on the wall, assembling all these big screen X-Men stars in one film is going to be a trip.

3 #Oscars, 6 #GoldenGlobes, 1 #BAFTA, 2 #Emmys, 2 #Tonys, 5 #Oliviers, 1 #Ceaser - Now let's blow s**t up! #XMEN twitter.com/BryanSinger/st…
— Bryan Singer (@BryanSinger) March 15, 2013

Keep up folks for this all star Mutant line-up. We have Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Nicholas Hoult, Peter Dinklage, Halle Berry, Ellen Page, Shawn Ashmore, Omar Sy and Anna Paquin (followed by three unconfirmed mystery cast members).

Plus those six empty slots makes you wonder who are the additional major players yet to be announced...

Check back here for confirmation on the identities of the last three mystery head shots on the board, and I would expect updated pictures of this wall to be tweeted by Singer until the cast is complete...

UPDATE: Deadline and SuperheroHype confirm that Fan Bingbing, as seen in this picture, has been added to the cast as the mutant Blink. Also per SuperheroHype, BingBing's headshot hangs between Daniel Cudmore (returning as Colossus from X2 and X3) and Boo Boo Stewart who holds the last spot in the line-up.

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Sirs Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart Set To Return In 'X-Men: Days of Future Past'

Director/ Producer Bryan Singer took to his Twitter account to let everyone know that he won't be the only one returning to the big screen X-Men world in X-Men: Days of Future Past, the follow-up to X-Men: First Class.

Sirs Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen will be joining First Class cast members James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender and Nicholas Hoult in the sequel set to hit theaters on July 18, 2014.

Singer, who directed 2000's X-Men and 2003's X2, had to bow out of 2011's X-Men: First Class to instead helm Jack the Giant Slayer (which has yet to be released). Ironically Singer is now back in the mix after First Class director Matthew Vaughn abruptly stepped away from Days of Future Past (those Star Wars: Episode VII rumors persist).

X-Men: First Class was a 60's set quasi-prequel to the 20th Century Fox's blockbuster X-Men series starring Stewart as Charles Xavier, McKellen as Magneto and Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. First Class recast McAvoy and Fassbender as younger versions of Xavier and Magento, and managed to squeeze Jackman in for a quick cameo as well. The alternating time line aspects involved with the plot of Days of Future Past (inspired from a comic book story arc), will allow both versions of the popular Marvel Mutants to share screen time within the same film.

“The movie is called X-Men: Days Of Future Past, use your imagination,” Singer told Deadline. “More to come,” he added.

Hugh Jackman can't be far behind. Expect more updates when Jackman is thrown into an international press circuit grilling in New York City for Les Misérables later this week. The Wolverine, a sequel to ALL of the previous X-Men films hits the big screen next July, and has a hot rumor of Famke Jannsen reprising her role as Jean Grey (most likely in a flashback). How this all may eventually fit in with Days of Future Past will be revealed in due time...

Thrilled to announce @ianmckellen118 & @sirpatstew are joining the cast of #XMEN #DaysOfFuturePast #magneto #professorX More to come...
— Bryan Singer (@BryanSinger) November 27, 2012

I'd like to officially welcome back James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, & Nicholas Hoult to #XMEN for #DaysOfFuturePast
— Bryan Singer (@BryanSinger) November 27, 2012

SOURCE: Twitter, Deadline

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