![]() ![]() One of the things we wanted to explore was that the '80s was a sort of blissfully ignorant time unlike the '60s that were so radicalized and highly political, or the '70s that were coming out of that. And so that was something we really wanted to explore in the film in terms of the actual plotting of the movie itself - I mean, Nixon is an actual character in the movie just as JFK was a character in X-Men: First Class. Something like the Cuban missile crisis in X-Men: First Class became a huge part of the story and a critical part of it, but then there were also very personal moments in that movie like Mystique's struggle with her identity as a mutant, with the Charles side essentially asking her to pass or integrate, and the other side with Magneto telling her that the blue side, the more radicalized side of her was the truer her side of her.Īnd then, jumping forward into Days of Future Past, the '70s was the time obviously of not just persecution, but an immense amount of paranoia given the Vietnam War, given Nixon. There's no question that idea gave us the opportunity to explore what was going on in the world in those decades that might have related to oppression and persecution and xenophobia. How was that reflected in the choice to jump from one decade to another one, particularly in the last four? And I think what comes with it is inevitably fans of that part of the comic being disappointed. And so that sort of editorial process is hard. These stories have so much great stuff in them, but they're told over a span of time that you can't cover in a single movie. The disadvantage is that it's hard to know what to exclude. The process of adaptation is taking something that can span many, many issues, and we're trying to boil it down to roughly two hours of storytelling.īut, it's a great story. Because really, usually we use the basic concept and the essence of the storyline but we change a lot of things within it obviously, we take license. ![]() ![]() The advantages obviously are that they're extraordinary, enduring stories I mean, there's a reason why a story that might've been written 30, 40, 50 years ago is still resonant today - it means the story itself is just a really, really strong idea. And Bryan is someone that the cartoons as much as the comics were really important growing up for him, as they were for me as well. And it may just also be the filmmakers of the mainline X-Men movies, the vast majority of them were directed by Bryan Singer. Obviously, all comic fans are very fervent about the source material, but our fans are really, really dedicated to it. I think part of it is the fact that fans of the X-Men are perhaps the most religious about the comics of all fans. Why has that been such an important backbone for the franchise and what advantages and disadvantages has that presented you over the course of the series? The X-Men franchise has always been understandably reliant upon the big storylines from the comic books. ![]()
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