Fans who can’t time travel to next week for the full length trailer for “X-Men: Days of Future Past” got a 7-second teaser from director Bryan Singer to tide them over.
The footage shows a tantalizing succession of images — with Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine front and center, still unable to keep his shirt on in the heat of battle or keep from getting tortured.
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The quick-cut images show that the mutant ladies get their own share of action beats: Halle Berry’s Storm shooting lightning bolts and Jennifer Lawrence’s blue-skinned Mystique sliding across the ground.
The plot of the movie, which hits theaters May 23, 2014, is loosely based on a popular storyline of the same name by writer Chris Claremont and artist John Byrne during their “X-Men” run.
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In the time-traveling tale, present and future versions of the X-Men are linked by an assassination of a key senator that sets off a chain of events leading to a dystopian future where mutants are hunted into virtual extinction.
That means “Days of Future Past” features the return of Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart as Magneto and Professor X — the roles they made famous in Singer’s earlier “X-Men” movies — alongside Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy, the actors who played the younger versions of those characters in the 2011 prequel, “X-Men: First Class.”
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“When I was in New Orleans and Hugh Jackman called me and said, ‘Are we doing this,’ and when I said, ‘Yup,’ he was so excited,” Singer told The News earlier this year. “It was a great talk catching with Ian and Patrick. I think they’re they are comfortable returning.”
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