X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST writer and producer, Simon Kinberg revealed to The Q&A Podcast that Rachel Summers, alternate future daughter of Scott Summers and Jean Grey, was the one to originally send Wolverine back in the past, a character who shares the same role in the original comic book arc. Kinberg explains the switching of the character for Kitty Pryde.
“Rachel was in the first draft of the script of this. In fact it was Rachel that sent Wolverine back in the first draft of my script,” says Kinberg. “And I had Storm having this kind of complicated relationship with her because she’s the orphan of Jean, who’s Storm’s friend, who’s dead, and Scott, who was Storm’s friend, who’s dead. And more than anything — and this is a movie I had to do this a lot on — I had to do a hypertext introduction to a character. Let me just give you the Wiki pages on who Scott is and who Jean is, and they’re not in this scene, but everybody’s going to have to talk about them. And then there’s going to be somebody who’s upset because her parents are gone…anyway, it just seemed more complicated than it was worth for a movie that already had a lot of drama and a lot of complication.”
He continues, “I don’t remember at what point in the process I switched it to Kitty but what I thought was, it’s a bit of a cheat because it’s not really her power, but the way I was explain it if I really was attacked is that there’s secondary powers that a lot of the mutants have in the X-Men universe — secondary powers that evolve and emerge later in life. So who’s to say that Kitty — who is capable of touching people and having them phase with her through space, why can’t it be that they also phase through time if she evolves her powers?”
Thanks to Comic Book for the heads up!
I still don’t buy the explanation though.. It mean in the future film, we can see her doing that power again or we will just pretend that power is for that movie only..
Our best chance of seeing Rachel Summers on film, shot down. Boo 🙁
**SPOILERS**
Now that Jean and Scott are back, there’s an even better chance of seeing Rachel (or another Summers offspring) in a future film.
It seems Wolverine saw Nate Grey when he woke up in the altered future timeline (the kid with the white/blond and brown hair). The kid at the very beginning of the film also had similar hair, but I’m not sure if that’s supposed to be the same character…they looked different ages.
Unless I missed something, there is nothing to confirm that that is Nate Grey, though it is certainly the same kid that Wolvie sees when he wakes up in the ‘happy mansion’.
You’re right – there’s nothing to confirm he is Nate Grey, but I think it was the intention. Though I’m not sure how he’d exist in the beginning of the film with Jean and Cyclops dead. I need a director/writer commentary for this film! 🙂
Nate Grey is a time traveler.. That all make sense on how he appears in different age. or could one of them is Nate and one is Nathan.
It would have been cool to see 🙁 Glad Kitty got an important role too, though.
I went to a Q&Q where he Simon gave this same explanation and the audience wasn’t buying it at all. I get why he had to take Rachel out because if Jean and Scott were dead, how in the hell could she be alive. But I thought in the comics, Rachel came from an alternate reality. It would have made more sense for Bishop to go back in time using a time travel machine that Forge built from the future. and it would have made more sense for the story to take place in 2014 and the entire original X-Men team could have been there, instead of the First Class cast.
Boo terrible excuse not to use my favorite X-Man…would have been better if Xavier used his telepathy instead of Kitty….or even have Psylocke appear using her telepathy to send Logan back
This broke my heart and ruined any enjoyment I could have had watching the movie. Maybe I’ll see it someday when I’m old or paralysed and can’t change the channel but that’s about the only way.
Poor decision to cut Tachel, ruined the movie.
We never saw Scott’s body. Rachel could have been his daughter with Maddie Pryor or Lee Forrester or something.