Yesterday brought us the first trailer for the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past, which you can see in full again at the bottom of this page. Director Bryan Singer has now offered a bit of a commentary for the trailer over at Empire and we’ve plucked some of the most interesting bits and assembled them for you below.
“It’s his eyeball!” laughs Singer about Professor X’s eye. “It’s him asking, ‘what’s the last thing you remember?’ It’s a line from the movie, but in a way he’s also asking the audience. We’re about to go back into a familiar world – what’s the last thing you remember?'”
“The grey in the hair is something I took from X-Men Days Of Future Past, it’s a look in the comic. I liked it, even though he hasn’t really aged physically it’s something that shows how tough things have gotten in the future, and brought that out in him and given him a little more world-weariness.”
“They’re not really fresh recruits, They’re more refugees that are living day to day in this hideously ruined world. They don’t have much hope in the future. They’re on the run and they join forces with the remaining X-Men to try to do this one last attempt at fixing the world.”
“There’s a line in the movie, “He’s always had a way with guns.” That’s how he crippled Xavier, and he’s such a powerful mutant but in this particular moment he’s holding a gun and I like that. He’s a product of the Second World War and he knows how to use a gun as much as he does his powers.”
