X-Men: First Class was the lowest-grossing film in the mutant franchise since the original X-Men.
But $350 million is nothing to sniff at, and stars Jennifer Lawrence
and Michael Fassbender have both become omnipresent in the year since First Class opened, so it wasn’t too surprising when Fox announced a July 2014 release date for a First Class follow-up.
And there are plenty of reasons to be optimistic about the
prequel-sequel.
Director Matthew Vaughn gave the movie a distinctive
retro flair, replete with Roger Moore-era Bondian set design and a great
villainous turn by Kevin Bacon, to say nothing of the great frenemy
tension between James McAvoy and Fassbender. And X-Men producer Bryan Singer has just given an interview which indicates that plans for the next X
movie are very ambitious indeed. In a video sitdown with IGN, Singer
says that the movie — currently being written, and set to start shooting
“in a few months” — will be called Days of Future Past, which is also the title of one of the most memorable X-Men story arcs ever.
