Bryan Singer's return to the X-Men franchise, X-Men: Days Of Future Past, is nearing the start of production, and the director has announced some new names added to the cast. Well, old faces actually, with Shawn Ashmore, Anna Paquin, and Ellen Page returning as Iceman, Rogue, Kitty Pryde, the roles they played in the original X-Men trilogy. The director tweeted the news, as well as thanking X-Men: The Last Stand director Brett Ratner for letting these characters survive the movie, which is notorious for killing off alot of the cast from Singer's first two films in the trilogy.
Ashmore, Paquin, and Page join Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, and Ian McKellen in representing the old school X-men alongside the young bucks of X-Men: First Class, including Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, and Jennifer Lawrence, in a story that brings time travel into the mix with a mutant from a dark future travelling to the past to stop their world from coming into being.
X-Men: Days Of Future Past is set for release on the 18th Of July 2014.
