X-Men: First Class Sequel to be titled "Days of Future Past"

It'll be a lot like this. Minus all the Wolverine though.

The ten year old boy in me whose first memories of this storyline, before the days in which he dabbled in the popular comic story arcs, were the animated cartoon where Bishop essentially plays the Kitty Pryde role from the comics could not be more excited for this news. Bryan Singer has confirmed in an interview with IGN that the new X-Men sequel will be titled "Days of Future Past" and talked about the vague possibility of bringing some sort of connectivity between the First Class continuity and the original X-Men continuity (but the more he stays away from X-Men Origins: Wolverine and X-Men 3, the better).

What this proves is how ambitious director Matthew Vaughn and producer Bryan Singer are attempting to get with this sequel. This easily has the potential to be the best of all the X-Men movies, given the source material.

Clearly there will be some significant changes, as there's no way Wolverine is going to play as large a role in the new movie as he did in the original story, nor will Kitty Pryde, I'd guess, but the fact that they're headed in this direction hopefully means they've found an appropriate through-line for the story to succeed. Check out the confirmation video after the jump.