X-Men: Days of Future Past - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of X-Men: Days of Future Past or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to X-Men: Days of Future Past

[carl]

(At around seventeen minutes) When Wolverine travels back through time, and wakes up in 1973, he is naked. A possible nod to The Terminator movies. In those movies, The Terminator travelled back through time and arrived in the past bare beam and buck naked.

[ronnie]

According to producer Simon Kinberg, this movie unites all of the future mutants: "It's this dysfunctional family, and these desperate people, who are outcasts in their own lives, and they come together, and that's not as emotionally satisfying as an outcast on their own."

[sylvia]

Mystique rescues Havok, Ink, and Toad from Stryker in Vietnam. Later in the movie, when Magneto makes his broadcast, Ink and Toad are seen, but not Havok. Havok was to be captured and used to test a prototype Sentinel. This was left out of the movie, for running time purposes.

[frederick]

In the original comic storyline, Marvel heroes other than the X-Men are wiped out by the Sentinels, such as Spider-Man, Ghost Rider, Daredevil, Iron Man, Hulk, The Fantastic Four and someone who looks like the Silver Surfer, but is more likely Bobby Drake (Iceman).

[bernard]

Shooting went on under the working title "Hello Kitty." This refers to X-Men member Kitty Pryde (Ellen Page).

[bessie]

When Matthew Vaughn was set to direct, Juggernaut was going to be the one who broke Magneto out of prison. Josh Helman had been cast in the role. When Bryan Singer took over directing duties, he decided to use Quicksilver instead, as Juggernaut had already been used as an antagonist in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006). Helman was re-cast as the young William Stryker, and Juggernaut would later make an appearance in Deadpool 2 (2018), where, ironically, he is the one being broken out of a prison. The announcement that Quicksilver would be in this movie came after he was announced for Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), so his inclusion may have been Twentieth Century Fox's way of asserting their ownership of the character.

[javier]

A real website was created for the Trask Industries, which is available at the address www.trask-industries.com. In the website are revealed details about the Sentinel Program, and it is even possible to make an application for a job within the company.

[elmer]

In this movie, which partly takes place in a post-apocalyptic future, Professor Xavier (Sir Patrick Stewart) sends Wolverine back through time to prevent the assassination of Bolivar Trask, creator of the Sentinel robots. In Star Trek: First Contact (1996), Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Stewart) and the Enterprise crew travel back through time to post-World War III Earth to stop the Borg from converting all human life on Earth into Borg, and also prevent them from stopping First Contact and changing history.

[cameron]

John Ottman is the first composer to score more than one movie in the X-Men film franchise, and the first editor to edit more than one, having already done both on X2: X-Men United (2003).

[darrell]

This movie, and in particular, the Sentinels and Trask was foreshadowed in X-Men: The Last Stand (2006). In that movie, the X-Men fight a giant robot in a simulation of a battle in a ruined city and the head of the Department of Homeland Security (Bill Duke) was called Trask. However, the two Trasks played by Bill Duke and Peter Dinklage are not the same character, and are unrelated.

[sandra]

(At around one hour and fifty-five minutes) After Logan reawakens at the mansion, and encounters Jean Grey, Cyclops grabs his wrist as he reaches for Jean, and one can clearly see Logan's middle finger half-extended from his fist.

[oscar]

Angel, Azazel, Riptide, and Emma were originally going to return, but when the filmmakers decided to go with the "Days of Future Past" story, they had them all killed off.

[jim]

All of the scenes that are supposed to take place in Paris, were shot in Old Montreal. The building seen from almost all angles is actually City Hall, and the fountain is located in the small Place Vauquelin just beside it. Ironically, for something that is supposed to be in France, is seen in the background a column erected to Lord Nelson in 1809. Even Mark Twain, when visiting Montreal in 1881, noticed it and declared with his habitual humor: ''I have observed here with emotion, in your city, the monument which makes forever memorable the exact place where Horatio Nelson did not stand when he fell."

[alyssa]

Jamie Campbell Bower and Nico Tortorella auditioned for the role of Quicksilver.

[sara]

Originally, Raven was to choose to go with Charles instead of Erik, and would appear in the altered future teaching a biology class with an older Hank. Meanwhile, Logan would be retrieved from the Potomac River by Stryker, thus bringing around the Weapon X story arc. The filmmakers felt this was too predictable, and a sad ending, so it was changed to Raven simply escaping and making her own agenda (under Stryker's form), to make the ending more unexpected.

[mathew]

Including his cameo in X-Men: First Class (2011), this is Hugh Jackman's seventh portrayal of Logan, a.k.a. Wolverine, which raised his own record for the most times a comic book character has been played by the same actor in theatrical movies. Jackman is also the only actor to appear in every X-Men movie in the franchise up to Logan (2017), which was his final time playing the character.

[tom]

(At around fifty-five minutes) Magneto claims John F. Kennedy was a mutant. According to Simon Kinberg, J.F.K.'s mutant ability is hypnotic charm.

[sara]

In the beginning of the extended Rogue Cut, there is a long debate if the X-Men should erase 50 years of history. The new mutants such as Bishop and Sunspot are afraid that such a drastic change could literally wipe them out from the time continuum, since they could be killed in the interim or not be born at all. It is noteworthy that in the restored timeline, the established characters like Iceman, Colussus and Kitty reappear alive and well, while Warpath, Blink, Sunspot and Bishop are nowhere to be found. Although this could imply that their assertion about no longer existing is correct, it is far more likely that they exist but are not living or teaching at Xavier's school, since these characters have never been part of the X-Men in any of the earlier movies.

[jamie]

In the "Days of Future Past" comic, it was Kitty Pryde who went back in time. In this movie, it's Wolverine. According to writer Simon Kinberg, Kitty was intended to be the time-traveller, but it didn't work out: "Kitty in the era of young Magneto and Xavier would have been -20 years old. The reflex response to that was a character who doesn't age. Wolverine is the only character who would look the same in 1973 as he does in the future." Thus, Wolverine was picked for being an ageless immortal character who would bridge past and future.