Director Bryan Singer revealed that Ellen Page, Anna Paquin, and Shawn Ashmore will be in the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past. Presumably, they’ll be reprising their respective roles of Kitty Pryde, Rogue, and Iceman. The cast is becoming awesomely impressive, with Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Hoult, and Jennifer Lawrence already confirmed. At the very least, the movie won’t be hurting for star power.
Page has the most challenging role, depending on how close to the comics Singer keeps the movie. She was charming in her small role in X-Men: Last Stand, but Days of Future Past will require her to play a broken and tragic character. Thankfully, she has the acting chops to kill it as alternate-future Kitty Pryde. I suppose Jackman will be working the most since he can play present-day and future versions of Wolverine, thanks to the character’s healing factor slowing down the aging process. That’s a convenient way to maximize an actor’s time.
Anyway, how do you feel about Singer getting talent from every X-Men film every made for Days of Future Past?
It makes sense to keep up with continuity. I was hoping they wouldn’t get Paquin. She was a terrible Rogue.
Yes, but you should support her because she enjoys taking her clothes off on camera.
I do support her for that but it doesnt change the fact that shes a terrible Rogue
I don’t really blame her. The way the character was written for the movies was dumb to begin with. She wasn’t working with the best material.
Then they should cut out Rogue
Crap! Now I’m going to have to see this movie because Iceman is in it. I just pray that Shawn Ashmore doesn’t pussify Bobby Drake like he has in the past.
Why do so many of these super hero movies fail to properly personify their comic book counterparts? I’m not crazy about X2’s Iceman, but Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man had to be one of the worst takes on the wall crawler that I’ve ever seen.
-M
I think the problem is more with the writing than the acting. A lot of these roles are written in ways that don’t accurately reflect the character in the comics. X2 Iceman could have been any generic teenaged mutant.