Watch the Sentinels Attack in 'X-men: Days of Future Past' Opening Battle

Fear. Injustice. Prejudice. Throughout the entire run of Marvel's X-men comics these are the societal issues the team of mutants have fought against in the name of Charles Xavier. No amount of mutant powers can change them easily, and in fact, mutant powers tend to make the problems worse. But a physical threat the team has consistently battled, that seems to evolve constantly over the years, are the giant robot Sentinels, and they make their presence felt in a big way in Bryan Singer's X-men: Days of Future Past.

The film is based on Chris Claremont's epic comics run, which has the future basically overrun by Sentinels as the result of a mutant crime in the past. This clip features the opening battle from the film, pitting Bishop (Omar Sy), Blink (Fan Bingbing), Sunspot (Adan Canto), Warpath (Boo Boo Stewart), Kitty Pryde (Ellen Page) and Iceman (Shawn Ashmore) trying to survive the Sentinel attack. It's a pretty awesome scene, and what I dig the most is that we see a proper use of everybody's powers, like when Bishop powers up off Sunspot's flame energy.

X-men: Days of Future Past opens May 23rd.

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New teaser for 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' gives a glimpse of Evan Peters as Quicksilver

So are people really excited for X-Men: Days of Future Past? BECAUSE I AM REALLY EXCITED FOR X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST. And the new video clip released on Instagram today has only fueled my fangirl-ing even more.

To be honest, it's not like there is that much new stuff in this video, which is really just a brief teaser. We get Michael Fassbender as young Magneto again, we get James McAvoy as young Professor X again, we get Jennifer Lawrence as young Mystique again (looking very period-appropriate in her '70s gear, I must say). But we are getting a couple of first glimpses, including of Quicksilver, who in this film will be played Emma Roberts' fiance Evan Peters. (In the Marvel films, the role will be played by Kick-Ass star Aaron Taylor-Johnson.) Anyway, here's a screengrab of Peters:

And here are the other new X-Men we see in the teaser; from left to right, that's teleporting mutant Blink (Fan Bingbing), super-strong and super-fast Warpath (Booboo Stewart, of Twilight fame), and the solar power-absorbing Sunspot (Adan Canto):

Check out the rest of the clip for yourself, if you're so inclined; Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, Ian McKellen as older Magneto, and Shawn Ashmore as Iceman also make an appearance. X-Men: Days of Future Past hits theaters on May 23, 2014.

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Bryan Singer cleverly confirms Bishop, Blink, and Warpath for 'X-men: Days of Future Past'

Bryan Singer has expertly used both Twitter and Vine to keep us up to date on all of the latest info on X-men: Days of Future Past. He seems to be at his most clever when it comes to revealing new cast members, such as when he casually revealed the return of Daniel Cudmore as Colossus. Now he's taken to Vine and showed off a semi-circle of director's chairs for the cast, and there are a few characters we weren't previously sure about.

The video includes the names we're all familiar with, from Storm (Halle Berry) to Kitty Pryde (Ellen Page), but mixed in there are James "Warpath" Proudstar, Bishop, and Blink. Omar Sy has been rumored to be playing the time-lost X-man Bishop since he came aboard, so that may have turned out to be true. Bishop hails from the future, but in the comics had little to do with the storyline the film is  based on. However, in the animated series he was one of the reasons why the dystopic future the X-men are trying to prevent occurs.

It's likely that Boo Boo Stewart is taking on the role of Warpath, considering they are both Native American. He grew to hate the X-men after his brother Jim  "Thunderbird"Proudstar was killed on a mission, so James instead joined The White Queen and her team of Hellions. He eventually came back and fought in X-force.

The speculation has been all along that Fan Bingbing would be taking on Blink, a teleporting mutant who became one of Marvel's most popular characters after she died saving a team of young X-men known as Generation X. So Marvel brought her back in the Age of Apocalypse storyline,  grown up and considerably tougher.

How Singer expects to manage so many characters is anybody's guess, but it's going to be a challenge making sure nobody gets shafted on screen time. X-men: Days of Future Past opens on July 18th 2014.

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Daniel Cudmore back as Colossus; Fan Bingbing is Blink in 'X-men: Days of Future Past'

Bryan Singer has been pretty awesome with his use of Twitter lately, especially when to comes to keeping us apprised of X-men: Days of Future Past's production. Today he posted the above image featuring head shots of the principle cast, and there are a couple of new additions along with one powerful returnee.

Daniel Cudmore, who played the organic steel hero Colossus in X-2 and X-men: The Last Stand has been confirmed as one of them. The lovely Chinese actress Fan Bingbing is another, and Deadline says she'll be taking on the role of Blink. That's an interesting one, as Blink is a teleporter, but a very different sort of one than Nightcrawler was. In the comic she started out as a child, who sacrificed her life to save the young mutants of Generation X. An adult version of Blink would re-emerge years later in an alternate timeline ruled by Apocalypse, eventually finding her way into the "normal" timeline. Apocalypse has been rumored to be a potential villain in the film. Bingbing has a small role in Iron Man 3, and if you look closely at the latest trailer you can see her. The last new face on the wall is Boo Boo Stewart, who recently played Seth Clearwater in The Twilight Saga.

Pretty awesome to have Colossus back, and it makes sense because Singer teased him so well with his first appearance. There seem to be a lot of gaps on that wall, so there may be more announcements to come. Starring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Patrick Stewart, Jennifer Lawrence, Ian McKellen, Peter Dinklage, Nicholas Hoult, Anna Paquin, Shawn Ashmore, Ellen Page, Halle Berry, Hugh Jackman, and Omar Sy, X-men: Days of Future Past hits theaters on July 18th 2014.

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