Bryan Singer discusses ‘Days of Future Past’ trailer in detail.

Director Bryan Singer provided MTV and Empire with some commentary on the recently released trailer for X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST, explaining key scenes and aspects from the epic story.

How Blink, Bishop, Warpath, Sunspot fit into future timeline.

“They’re part of a younger group of surviving refugees in the future that have been living moment to moment just trying to stay alive, so we find them confronted with the members of the original, few-remaining X-Men, who basically ask them help them with this plan. They’re skeptical, but they also realize that there’s no other choice.

How the film will be divided between future and past.

“Most of the picture takes place in 1973, but in the third act, you got back and forth. I’ve created a way where parallel action can take place, so you’ll be living with the characters in the future as well as in the past.”

How Wolverine managed to gain some gray hair in future timeline.

“That’s from the comic. That’s from the original ‘Days of Future Past.’ He doesn’t really age, or he ages in a certain way. I felt that enough had happened and that even Wolverine is getting a bit beaten down and haggard in this new world. I thought it would be appropriate to bring in the famous gray around the temples that he had in the comic. I really like that.”

On Mystique’s drastic evolution from “First Class” to “X-Men”.

“It’s much, much closer, from the hairstyle to her agility. She hasn’t quite become the cold assassin that Rebecca was, but she’s headed on that course. It’s much more closer to that character from ‘X1’ and ‘X2,’ from the innocent character that she was in ‘First Class.’

“There’s an event. The movie is gearing towards this one event, and things go terribly wrong. That’s a moment in the ‘Things go terribly wrong’ sequence.”

Xavier coming face-to-face with younger himself…or not?

“His arc is the central arc of the story. That’s a moment in the film — I don’t want to explain how he comes to be facing himself on screen, but it’s interesting how it happens. I did some interesting stuff visually — some visual stuff and some practical stuff. It’s an interesting scene, very trippy. ” [MTV]

Storm is one of few remaining X-Men left in future timeline.

“She’s one of the last surviving X-Men in this post-apocalyptic world,” explains Singer of Storm’s place in the movie. “She’s part of that with Wolverine and Charles and Magneto; they’re some of the last folk standing from the original X-Men. They’re at the spearhead of this mission, this last chance at saving the world. This is their only hope, their mission into time. Can you actually go back and affect time? Can you go back and change things or will time correct itself? Will history fight you back and is your destiny pre-determined or can you change it?”

The X-Men are no longer an actual team in the future.

“They’re on the run,” says Singer. “There’s no organisation. It’s all been shattered. Most of them have been hunted down. Most of them are dead.”

Having younger Magneto use guns in key action scenes.

“There’s a line in the movie, ‘He’s always had a way with guns’,” reveals Singer. “That’s how he crippled Xavier, and he’s such a powerful mutant but in this particular moment he’s holding a gun and I like that. He’s a product of the Second World War and he knows how to use a gun as much as he does his powers.”

Michael Fassbender skewing his Magneto performance closer to McKellen’s.

“Fassbender knew that he would be, well, not sharing the frame with Ian McKellen, but sharing the movie with Ian McKellen,” explains Singer, “so where on First Class he tried to be as different as possible from McKellen, because that was a very different character, he now knows as an actor he’d have to bring his performance slightly closer to Ian’s because he’s heading in that direction.” [Empire]