'X-men: Days of Future Past' Promos for Beast, Xavier, Bishop, and More

Now that The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Godzilla are doing their damage at the box office, the round robin of summer tentpoles continues this week with X-men: Days of Future Past. Controversy has been swirling around its director, Bryan Singer, but that doesn't seem to have affected 20th Century Fox's plan to hype the film, which unites the X-men: First Class squad of mutants with the older group from Singer's original trilogy. We've seen a number of these "power pieces" featuring some of the new and old characters and now we have a few more. These put the spotlight on Hank "Beast" McCoy, Charles Xavier, Iceman, Colossus, and Omar Sy as the future X-man, Bishop.

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


Meet ICEMAN _ X-MEN DAYS OF FUTURE PAST Character Trailer by NovaCotton


Meet COLOSSUS _ X-MEN DAYS OF FUTURE PAST Character Trailer by NovaCotton


Professeur Xavier _ X-Men Days of Future Past- Trailer VOSTFR by Newstrailers

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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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Anna Paquin, Ellen Page, and Shawn Ashmore returning for 'X-men: Days of Future Past'

If there was any doubt that Bryan Singer was pulling out all of the stops for his return to the world of Marvel's mutants with X-men: Days of Future Past, then let's put all of that to rest right now. It's become pretty clear now that the film, already a sequel to X-men: First Class, is also going to serve as some sort of follow-up to X-men: The Last Stand. Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, and Ian McKellen are confirmed to return, Singer has now taken to Twitter to guarantee a few more.

Very excited to welcome #annapaquin, @ellenpage & @shawnrashmore to #XMen #DaysofFuturePast - thank you @brettratner for letting them live!
— Bryan Singer (@BryanSinger) January 26, 2013

Anna Paquin and Shawn Ashmore played teenage lovers Rogue and Iceman through all three flicks, while Page played Kitty "Shadowcat" Pryde in the final film.  So it looks like that love triangle they shared will be coming back in full force. Since this is based on the classic X-men time travel story, which actually centered on Kitty Pryde to a large extent, Singer could do any number of things with these characters and not have to worry too much about continuity.

So let's just look at this for a second. We can figure that James McAvoy's Professor X, Michael Fassbender's Magneto, and Jennifer Lawrence's Mysique are going to remain central figures, and then you throw in their adult counterparts and already the cast is pretty big. With these three additions, one has to assume Singer will be reaching out to others, such as Famke Janssen and Halle Berry. That's a lot of X-men packed into one Danger Room. And where's Rebecca Romijn in all of this? Is she coming back as the older Mystique or what?

X-men: Days of Future Past opens on July 18th 2014. 
 

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