‘Days of Future Past’ Story Confirmed for ‘X-Men: First Class’ Sequel

Back in June, a story surfaced that 20th Century Fox had recently registered the title Days of Future Past with the MPAA Title Registration Bureau. For comic fans, that was a big deal as the story is a huge one in the X-Men universe, and with the X-Men: First Class sequel in development, with a set release date of July 18th, 2014, it only made sense that we would see director Matthew Vaughn take the young X-Men into this popular 1981 two-issue storyline that deals with alternate timelines. Now producer Bryan Singer confirms that fact saying, “It deals with aspects of that comic, but also some very new things.” More below! For those unfamiliar, here’s a synopsis of the story from Wikipedia: The storyline alternates between present day, in which the X-Men fight Mystique’s Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, and a future timeline caused by the X-Men’s failure to prevent the Brotherhood from …