Director
Bryan Singer returns to the X-Men franchise, and blends the original cast with
the First Class crew for an audacious, time travelling adventure in “X-Men:
Days of Future Past” (3D) that will open in Philippine cinemas on May 21
nationwide.
For
years, the X-Men have faced many threats from within and without their ranks,
but in “Days of Future Past,” they’re dealing with one of the worst. The films
have a history of mankind misunderstanding mutants, but in the upcoming film,
scientist Bolivar Trask (played by Peter Dinklage) begins to rally the world
against our heroes, and creates the monstrous, massive Sentinel robots to help
tackle what he perceives as the mutant problem.
With
Bryan Singer back at the helm, the movie continues his approach of grounded,
understandable villains, whose issues come from a place of fear and arrogance.
To portray Trask, he turned to respected actor Peter Dinklage, who has found
fame on the worldwide hit TV’s “Game of Thrones” playing Tyrion Lannister, a
man for whom life is an endless series of shades of grey. Singer figured
Dinklage was the man to bring Trask – a well-known character from the comic
books – to life on screen, and developed a nuanced role for him. Dinklage’s other notable movies include “The
Station Agent,” “Death at a Funeral,”
“Elf” and lent his vocal talent in the hit animation franchise films “Ice Age”
as the voice of Gruff and “Chronicles of Narnia” as the voice of Trumpkin.
“Days
Of Future Past” not only represent the first time that the “classic” X-Men
actors including Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry,
Ellen Page and more have shared the marquee with the First Class characters
introduced in 2011, but the return of Singer to the franchise he helped launch.
He’s back behind the camera for the adaptation of one of the best-loved X-Men
stories, which found our heroes fighting for survival in a dark future where
the hulking, robotic Sentinels created by Bolivar Trask have been slowly wiping
them out. In a desperate final gambit, the mutants look to time travel to help
their younger selves stop this awful timeline from coming to pass. And, thanks
to his innate healing abilities, Wolverine (Jackman) is the one chosen to
endure the strain of travelling back in time.
Based
on Chris Claremont, John Byrne and Terry Austin’s “Days Of Future Past”
storyline from the “Uncanny X-Men” comic title, scribe Simon Kinberg adapted it
into the movie which allows him and Singer to draw on their shared love of time
travel films. Once Kinberg and Singer seized on the Future Past plot as a
jumping-off point, the possibilities were endless. “Bryan and I spent months
revising the script together,” Kinberg recalls.
The
X-Men throng needs to be all ready for this time, they are facing their toughest
challenge yet. “Game Of Thrones” fan
favourite Peter Dinklage was hired to play a very different version of Bolivar
Trask, a genius who views mutants as a mortal threat to mankind and decides to
create the menacing, technologically advanced Sentinel robots to fight them.
Singer chose Dinklage for several reasons. “I was very familiar with him and
I'm a fan of his. He first and foremost, carries the screen, and there's not a
second that you take him for granted.”
Kinberg
admits that Trask’s creations were another big driving force behind the choice
of storyline. “Once we all committed to “Days Of Future Past,” we knew the
Sentinels would be a part of it, and Trask would be central to the story,” he
says. “Bryan has done a lot of things to make the Sentinels feel loyal to the
books but also distinct from all the things that are ripped off the Sentinels,
like all the other robot movies that have come in the last 15 years or so, so
they look and feel different. And Bryan spent a lot of time working on them to
make them feel period specific but also cool and what a kid would fantasize
about.”
“X-Men: Days Of Future Past” (3D) is the biggest
X-Men film ever attempted, and indeed the biggest Fox has made since “Avatar.”
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