Yahoo UK sat down with ‘X-Men’ writer and producer Simon Kinberg to ask him just a few of the hundreds of questions sent to us by fans.



Speaking to us for the DVD and Blu-ray launch of ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’, he was expansive and very honest. He gave us an insight into some of the creative decisions and time traveling paradoxes thrown up by ‘DOFP’, and even spilled the beans on casting decisions currently being made for follow-up ‘Apocalypse’. Here’s a summary of the good stuff.

*SPOILERS AHEAD*

1. The correct chronological order of all the X-Men movies is…

- ‘X-Men: First Class’

- The past part of ‘DOFP’

- ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’

- ‘X-Men’

- ‘X2’

- ‘X-Men: The Last Stand’

- ‘The Wolverine’

- The future part of ‘Days of Future Past’

2. DOFP means Jean Grey is still alive

“We changed the timeline for everything that came after ‘DOFP’ - so ‘X-Men 1’, 2 and 3, even ‘The Wolverine’. So Jean [Grey] was not killed in ‘Last Stand’, nor was Scott, and a whole lot of other things rippled.”





3. There’s a logical reason why Quicksilver wasn’t used for the rest of DOFP

“We didn’t use him because they were recruiting him for a specific mission: the prison break to get Magneto out of the Pentagon. The mission beyond that was much more personal: to save Raven, more spiritually than physically. [So Quicksilver] could’ve run in and grab her, but he wouldn’t have been able to change her mind.”

4. Magneto and Xavier have a truce at the end of DOFP

“At the end of the movie [Magneto] flies away without his helmet, with the implication that he’ll go off and continue to be Magneto in some form, but not be able to hide it from Charles, who‘ll be able to read his mind and track him. There’s a truce of some kind between Charles and Magneto, but there’s a part of Magneto that will always be the Magneto we know from the comics.

5. Wolverine will still get his adamantium claws

“We don’t see it because he doesn’t pop his claws at the end of the movie [but like with elements of the story] perhaps how he got his claws is different. But he lands ultimately in the same destination.

6. Why Rogue was cut

“We had a lot of story to tell. Anna was fantastic in the movie, I liked the stuff we shot with her, but in a movie that had a ton of plot and a ton of mutants to service, the Rogue plot, as you will eventually see, was a sub-plot. It was a deviation from the main story of the movie. We had to cut other scenes, other moments that we all loved. If it’s anybody’s fault, it’s mine, as I should’ve integrated her into the main story and I learned my lesson the hard way.

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