There's a brand-new teaser for the upcoming superhero flick X-Men: Days of Future Past, but if you blink, you might miss it. The five-second clip, which you can check out below, was posted to Instagram today with the promise of the full trailer to come on Tuesday, October 29th. Short as it is, the clip features some serious mutant action, from a tortured Wolverine to an angry Storm and a roaring Beast. We also catch glimpses of Magneto, Dr. Xavier and what looks to be a break-dancing Mystique – though realistically, she's probably just bringing the pain.
Directed by Bryan Singer and based on Marvel Comics' Uncanny X-Men, Days of Future Past is set to open on July 18th, 2014. The new flick brings together the casts of the original trilogy released between 2000-06 (Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Anna Paquin, Ellen Page and Shawn Ashmore) and the newcomers from 2011's X-Men: First Class (including James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult). Game of Thrones' Peter Dinklage was also cast as Bolivar Trask, a military scientist and creator of the mutant-hunting Sentinels.
The Days of Future Past teaser adds to today's bounty for Marvel fans. Earlier today, the comics juggernaut also released the first trailer for the upcoming Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which will see release on April 4th, 2014.
The Wolverine marks the sixth time Hugh Jackman bares his claws as the popular character from Marvel's X-Men universe and as far as I'm concerned, he can grow those mutton chops and snarl at the camera as many times as he likes.
Jackman is so good at playing this character, he got to do a sequel to a movie that teetered on the edge of awful. That would be 2009's "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," a film Jackman acknowledged wasn't so good and which prompted him to declare he didn't want to do another Wolverine movie without a better script. With the arrival of "The Wolverine," he got his wish.
The very first shot of The Wolverine is a stunning perspective. We're on the shore looking out over a large body of water. The sky is blue, sprinkled with clouds. In the distance, we see what turn out to be B-29 bombers slowly approaching. Pan to the right to reveal a Japanese POW camp, where soldiers desperately make preparations for their final moments. They release the POWS, except for one. Logan, aka Wolverine, sits in a subterranean holding cell in the middle of the camp. A sympathetic soldier named Yashida opens the cell to release the dangerous prisoner but instead of running, Wolverine pulls Yashida beneath the ground and protects him with his own near-indestructible body from the atomic blast that destroyed Nagasaki.
Cut to the present. Logan has renounced violence and is leading a solitary existence in the Yukon. That's not going to last very long, however. Yashida (Hal Yamanouchi) has sent one of his minions - a petite, red-haired, butt-kicking foot soldier named Yukio (Rila Fukushima) - to retrieve Logan and bring him back to Japan, so Yashida can personally thank him for saving his life in Nagasaki.
Oh, did I mention that Yashida is now the richest and most powerful man in Japan? He heads up a tech company and let's just say he doesn't really want to say good-bye to Logan: he wants to harness Logan's immortality. In the process, Wolverine gets mixed up with Yashida's son, Shingen (Hiroyuki Sanada); his fetching granddaughter, Mariko (Tao Okamoto); and an equally fetching but far more dangerous mutant named Viper (Svetlana Khodchenkova).
"The Wolverine" isn't this summer's most entertaining super hero movie: that title belongs to "Iron Man 3." However, it is the most complete and satisfying super hero movie of the summer. Thematically, dramatically and existentially, "The Wolverine" is comparable to "Batman Begins" and "The Dark Knight," though it's not as good as either of those movies. It's a bit unwieldy but its moral complexity, Jackman's acting and an absolutely stunning sequence that manages to turn the overdone top-of-the-train chase scene into something we haven't seen before, puts "The Wolverine" in the upper echelon of super hero summer blockbusters.
X-MEN FIRST CLASS charts the epic beginning of the X-Men saga, and reveals a secret history of famous global events. Before mutants had revealed themselves to the world, and before Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Not archenemies, they were instead at first the closest of friends, working together with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to prevent nuclear Armageddon. In the process, a grave rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto's Brotherhood and Professor X's X-Men.
X-Men: First Class charts the epic beginning of the X-Men saga, and reveals a secret history of famous global events. Before mutants had revealed themselves to the world, and before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time.
Not archenemies, they were instead at first the closest of friends, working together with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop Armageddon. In the process, a grave rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto's Brotherhood and Professor X's X-Men.
The movie is not as bad as its reviews being flying around....you can surely watch it and have agood time in the world of X-men ^_^
