X-Men: future is past

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Movie
German title X-Men: future is past
Original title X-Men: Days of Future Past
X-Men - Days of Future Past Logo.png
Country of production United States , United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 2014
length Theatrical version: 131 minutes
Rogue Cut: 148 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Bryan Singer
script Simon Kinberg
production Simon Kinberg,
Bryan Singer,
Hutch Parker ,
Lauren Shuler Donner
music John Ottman
camera Newton Thomas Sigel
cut John Ottman
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Wolverine: Way of the Warrior

Successor  →
Deadpool

X-Men: Future is Past (Original Title: X-Men: Days of Future Past ) is an American comic adaptation by Bryan Singer from 2014 . It is the sequel to X-Men: First Decision and X-Men: The Last Stand . The film is based on the eponymous Marvel - Comics . For director Bryan Singer, this is the third X-Men film that he has made as a director. The film opened in German cinemas on May 22, 2014.

action

In the dystopian future year 2023, the Sentinels , versatile robots with superpowers, are hunting mutants and people who help them. Almost all of them are dead or enslaved. A small group of mutants ( Shadowcat , Bishop , Blink, Colossus , Iceman , Sunspot, and Warpath) protect themselves by sending Bishop's ghost back in time during sentinel attacks, warning their former selves to flee before the attack begins. At a meeting with the last X-Men - Professor X , Magneto , Wolverine and Storm - Xavier explains the background to the war: In 1973, Xavier's foster sister Raven Darkholme, aka Mystique, shot and killed the scientist Bolivar Trask, who started the Sentinel program, which gave him the cause martyrs and stamped the mutants a dangerous threat. Above all, however, the findings from Mystique's DNA enabled the Sentinels to appropriate the superpowers of the mutants and thus become practically invincible.

Together they devise a plan to change the past to prevent Bolivar Trask's murder and thus the future war. But only Wolverine can survive this long journey through time without breaking. Shadowcat successfully sends Wolverine's spirit into the body of his younger self, while the remaining mutants protect the two so that the connection remains. In 1973, Wolverine went to the X-Men mansion, where he met a young Hank McCoy / Beast and a broken Charles Xavier. Xavier compensates for his paraplegia (see X-Men: First Decision ) with a serum from McCoy, which, however, blocks his telepathy. Wolverine convinces the two of his mission and persuades them to free Magneto, who is incarcerated in a maximum security prison and is held responsible for the assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy . Wolverine recruited the lightning-fast mutant Pietro Maximoff alias Quicksilver for this . In Washington DC, Bolivar Trask is unsuccessful in seeking support for the Sentinel program. At the same time, Mystique in Vietnam frees a group of mutants in the service of the US Army , including Toad, Ink and Havok / Alex Summers, from the violence of the young William Stryker and travels to Paris, where the American and Vietnamese military are negotiating the end of the Vietnam War . She wants to kill Trask, who is promoting his Sentinels at this conference.

Xavier, Wolverine, Magneto and Hank follow her and prevent the murder. To be on the safe side, Magneto even wants to kill Mystique, but Hank turns into Beast and is able to separate them. A battle between the mutants, broadcast around the world, plunges people into an anti-mutant panic. US President Richard Nixon therefore approves state funding for the Sentinel program, but Magneto sabotages the robots by adding metal to their plastic bodies. To find the escaped Raven, Xavier would have to sacrifice his ability to walk in order to use Cerebro , but self-doubt paralyzes him. Through a telepathic connection with his future self, he overcomes his fear and drops the serum. Even though he can telepathically contact Mystique, she still wants to kill Trask.

Nixon and Trask perform the Sentinels in front of the White House to a large media presence , but Magneto takes over the metal-vaccinated robots. He tore the nearby RFK Stadium out of the ground with his magnetic forces and fenced the White House with the entire grandstand construction. Nixon and Trask flee into a bunker, accompanied by a mystique disguised as a Secret Service agent. Magneto pierces Wolverine with metal sticks and throws him into the Potomac River . In 2023, the X-Men will fight their last stand against the Sentinels, sacrificing themselves for Wolverine and Shadowcat. In 1973 Magneto breaks open the bunker and wants to kill Nixon in front of the cameras. But "Nixon" turns out to be a mystique and wounds him with a plastic weapon. She points the gun at Trask, but spare him. Mystique and Magneto flee, making the changes in history real and the war against the Sentinels never existed.

Wolverine wakes up in Xavier's school in a peaceful year 2023. Even Jean Gray and Scott Summers, who died in the original past (see: X-Men: The Last Stand ), are in excellent health. The film jumps back to 1973, when a ship took Wolverine out of the river. Wolverine's body spits out the metal rods that Magneto drilled into it. On board is Mystique in the form of Major Stryker.

In the post-credit scene , the mutant Apocalypse appears in ancient Egypt. With his telekinetic powers he builds the pyramids and allows himself to be worshiped as a god by the population.

Rogue cut

A 10 minute long scene about the character Rogue did not appear in the original version. The figure portrayed by Anna Paquin still has a brief appearance. In total, the so-called “rogue cut” of the film is around 145 minutes long. In the Rogue Cut published in July 2015 , several scenes were added. In addition to several short scenes that describe the characters in more detail, a new storyline about rogue has been added.

In the course of Wolverine's time travel, Shadowcat has lost a lot of blood due to a cut and can no longer maintain a mental connection to the past. Rogue is supposed to replace her by absorbing Shadowcat's powers. However, this is in the hands of the Sentinels. Magneto and Iceman free them, whereby Iceman has to lose his life.

production

The film production companies 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, Marvel Entertainment, Dune Entertainment, Bad Hat Harry Productions , Donners' Company, Marv Films , Ingenious Media, Big Screen Productions, Ingenious Film Partners and Dune Entertainment III were involved in the realization of the film .

Filming took place from April 15, 2013 to August 17, 2013 in Montreal , Canada . The film budget was estimated at 200 million US dollars .

Kelsey Grammer , who played the role of Hank McCoy / Beast in X-Men: The Last Stand , was also supposed to return for this film, but was prevented from filming another film. At the end of the film, however, he has a cameo.

Compared to other publications

The plot of the film is based on the two-part comic book Days of Future Past from 1981 ( Uncanny X-Men , issues # 141-142). Here Shadowcat / Kitty Pryde travels from a dystopian future overrun by Sentinels into her younger self in order to prevent an attack by Mystique on the anti-mutant Senator Robert Kelly. At that time, Rachel Summers, daughter of Jean Gray and Cyclops, sent her ghost 33 years into the past. This changed the future in such a way that the Sentinels were built anyway, but the suppression by them did not take place. Further plot elements were taken from the following media:

  • The X-Men # 14 (1965), which first featured Bolivar Trask and the Sentinels in Marvel Comics,
  • The X-Men # 57 (1969) and The Uncanny X-Men # 193–194 (1985) for the design of the Sentinels, which are each divided into the Sentinels Mark II (adaptability to mutant forces) and the Super-Sentinel Nimrod (outer Appearance),
  • What If Vol.2 # 9 (based on Giant-Size X-Men (1975)), where Charles Xavier sinks into self-despair for a while in an alternate timeline after the death of his X-Men

In the film, Magneto is blamed for the assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy , although he tried to stop the fatal bullet with his powers, since according to him Kennedy was also a mutant. The irregular trajectory, referred to as “magical” in the film, is an allusion to the so-called magic bullet theory . This was mentioned twice by the young Charles Xavier, played by James McAvoy. McAvoy also played the lead role in Wanted in the plot of which he could also shoot bullets around the curve.

Quicksilver, regarding Magneto, says his mother once knew someone with the same skills. In the comics, Magneto is Quicksilver's father. The sequel X-Men: Apocalypse confirms this relationship.

Continuity with previous X-Men films

In X-Men: The Last Stand , Charles Xavier dies and Magneto loses his mutant powers. The final scene suggests that Magneto's powers are gradually returning. In the post-credit scene, Xavier wakes up from a coma inside his twin brother's body. In the post-credit scene of Wolverine: Path of the Warrior , both have fully regained their powers and receive the surprised Wolverine at the airport.

In Wolverine: Way of the Warrior , Wolverine loses its adamantium claws and regrows its bony ones. In X-Men: Future is Past , however, he has his metal claws again (in the future present).

reception

Reviews

X-Men: Future is Past received mostly positive reviews. Cinema saw an "impressive and intelligent superhero cinema " , which is supported by an "exquisite cast and a thoroughly convincing story."

The film service saw an "original, elaborately staged continuation of the" X-Men "myth," which takes up "the discussion about acceptance and discrimination" . The action was a spectacle and had a lot of sense of irony, but the 3D effect was only subdued.

Der Spiegel criticized the "double story with double actors in the truest sense of the word is thinner than it would have been a single one." However, one saw a "pleasantly emotional, ambitious, loving spectacle."

Financial success

Box office earnings [million]
territory U.S$ € CHF
world world 748.1 626.5 675
Production costs 200 167.5 180.5
United StatesUnited States United States Canada
CanadaCanada  		233.9 195.9 211.1
GermanyGermany Germany 16.1 13.5 14.5
AustriaAustria Austria 2.1 1.8 1.9
SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland Not available
(Access date: February 1, 2015)

By October 2014, the film grossed over $ 746 million worldwide, of which nearly $ 244 million came from the United States.

Awards

The film was nominated in the Best Visual Effects category at both the 2015 Academy Awards and the 2015 British Academy Film Awards . There were five nominations (including for director Bryan Singer) at the 2015 Saturn Award ceremony . The film won a total of twelve film awards and was nominated 41 times.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Age rating for X-Men: future is past . Youth Media Commission .
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  6. ↑ IMDb Company Credits X-Men: The future is past. Retrieved January 10, 2014 .
  7. ↑ a b IMDb Box office / business for X-Men: The future is past. Retrieved January 10, 2014 .
  8. ↑ IMDb Filming Locations X-Men: The future is past. Retrieved January 10, 2014 .
  9. ↑ X-Men: The future is the past. Cinema , accessed August 5, 2015 .
  10. ↑ X-Men: The future is the past - short review. Film service , accessed August 5, 2015 .
  11. ↑ New "X-Men" film: The double scales. Der Spiegel , accessed August 5, 2015 .
  12. ↑ Overall grossing results from X-Men: The future is past at BoxOfficeMojo.com (English), accessed on February 1, 2015.
  13. ↑ International box office earnings from X-Men: The future is past at BoxOfficeMojo.com (English), accessed on February 1, 2015.
  14. ^ X-Men: Days of Future Past . In: BoxOfficeMojo.com . Retrieved October 28, 2014.
  15. ↑ Awards on imdb.com