Director Bryan Singer reveals he couldn't wait to work with Jennifer Lawrence and co
X-Men Days Of Future Past's complicated plotline has finally been explained ahead of the movie's release next month, with director Bryan Singer confirming that time travel and an assassination attempt are the key focal points of the story.
Marvel's latest X-Men adventure brings together the all-star cast of the original movies and First Class with Hugh Jackman's Wolverine time travelling into the 70s in order to stop an all out war.
In a newly released featurette Singer explains that part of the reason for combining the two casts was because "I didn't have the opportunity to direct the younger cast in X-Men First Class".
Hugh Jackman reprises his role as Wolverine (Instagram/xmenmovies)
"I wanted to try to find a way to combine these two casts and the subject of time travel has appeared in a number of X-Men comic books so it was an obvious choice."
Revealing that it was just as exciting for younger cast members like Jennifer Lawrence to work with the originals, the director adds: "For the younger cast, it wasn't until they walked into the blue hallway, standing next to Hugh Jackman in full Wolverine make-up, James McAvoy said to me 'Wow now I feel like I'm really in an X-Men movie'."
Singer and writer-producer Simon Kinberg have also elaborated on the time travel plot, with Entertainment Weekly reporting that the film will see Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage) - the inventor of the mutant-hunting Sentinel robots - becoming the target of the assassination attempt by Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) and Magneto (Michael Fassbender).
X-Men Days of Future Past hits cinemas in May (Marvel)
"A lot of people have an emotional investment in [Mystique] not going to the dark side," says Kinberg. With the combination of young acting talent and familiar characters "the hope is that Days of Future Past will broaden the audience for X-Men such that it will motivate potential spinoffs even more," says Kinberg.
"Everyone grew up knowing Captain America or the Hulk, but not X-Men characters - I didn't even know who Wolverine was," adds Singer. "I call X-Men the bastard stepchild of the comic universes."
