Exciting news for X-Men fans as director, Bryan Singer, announces that Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen are to reprise their roles as Professor X and Magneto in the upcoming movie, X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Via Twitter, Singer confirmed that the dynamic duo would return to the X-Men franchise along with James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence and Nicolas Hoult who starred as much younger versions of the mutants in X-Men: First Class.
And within days of this being announced, another star from the original trilogy, Hugh Jackman/Wolverine, is in talks for a return. As well as the first three X-Men movies, Jackman appeared in X-Men Origins: Wolverine and had an unforgettable cameo in First Class. He will also be involved in a second solo movie for Wolverine which will be released next year.
X-Men: Days of Future Past is scheduled to be released in July 2014 and will be based on the comic book The Uncanny X-Men issues 141 and 142. In these editions, there is two different storylines in the present day, in which the X-men fight the Brother of Evil Mutants, and in the future where all mutants are hunted by Sentinels after the Brotherhood assassinate Senator Robert Kelly.
So with the news of the original X-Men stars returning to their roles, are there other X-Men you would like to see make an appearance?