Bryan Singer Tweets First Picture of Charles Xavier

So this picture was posted by Bryan Singer on his Twitter account today with the caption "Picture before picture. Tomorrow it begins." I assume this means that tomorrow the filming for Days of Future Past will begin.

The more I think about this movie, the more worried I become. All the ingredients are there to be an epic, incredible movie. But the cast is so massive, and you're looking at two different time periods with a number of stars that I imagine are clamoring for screen time, that hopefully Singer has a singular vision that makes it all come together. Still, there's no way this is any worse than Last Stand.

(And on an additional note, it appears that Professor X won't be stuck in that comatose man's body and ends up looking like himself again. Thinking about X-Men: The Last Stand just makes me sad.)

X-Men: Days of Future Past opens July 14th, 2014. Trailer sooner rather than later, please.

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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.