Bryan Singer on Prepping X-Men: Days of Future Past

Director Bryan Singer has been tweeting details on X-Men: Days of Future Past, which he recently sealed a deal to helm after Matthew Vaughn parted ways to direct The Secret Service instead.

Singer tweeted Thursday, "Well here goes. Beginning full prep on Xmen Days of Future Past. Very excited!"

This was followed by this tweet Friday afternoon: "Scout went well. Looks like Montreal it is."

The sequel to X-Men: First Class is expected to begin shooting in early 2013 for a July 18, 2014 release.

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Bryan Singer on Prepping X-Men: Days of Future Past

Director Bryan Singer has been tweeting details on X-Men: Days of Future Past, which he recently sealed a deal to helm after Matthew Vaughn parted ways to direct The Secret Service instead.

Singer tweeted Thursday, "Well here goes. Beginning full prep on Xmen Days of Future Past. Very excited!"

This was followed by this tweet Friday afternoon: "Scout went well. Looks like Montreal it is."

The sequel to X-Men: First Class is expected to begin shooting in early 2013 for a July 18, 2014 release.

Source : ign[dot]com

Jerry Lawler Collapses Live on WWE RAW

The first thing I'll say is that what happened live tonight on RAW was not a part of a WWE storyline...

During a match involving Daniel Bryan and Kane vs. The Prime Time Players, and shortly following his own match against CM Punk and Dolph Ziggler, 62 year-old commentator and WWE Hall of Famer Jerry "The King" Lawler became short of breath and collapsed at the announce table, falling to the floor. During this time, the cameras did not show what was happening, but viewers at home could see the crowd watching off to the side as a medical team came down to attend to Lawler.

Michael Cole, Lawler's co-commentator, understandably shaken, continued to call the match on his own while Lawler was placed on a stretcher and taken backstage. Twitter erupted, with everyone wondering what had happened to Lawler. The rest of the night was a surreal experience as Cole came back on intermittently to give the viewers health updates throughout the night. After receiving CPR backstage, Lawler was taken to a local Montreal medical facility where he was placed in an isolated ER and given oxygen through a tube. The final update, before RAW went off the air, was that Lawler was now breathing on his own and responsive to light. He is to undergo a CT scan on his head and chest. The doctors have listed him in "stable" condition.

The final hour of RAW's three-hour broadcast from Montreal went commentary-free as a tribute to Lawler.

Get well, Jerry.

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X-Men: First Class Sequel News - What is Days of Future Past?

Bryan Singer has confirmed that X-Men: First Class 2 will revolve around the Days of Future Past comic run.

Singer exclusively told IGN that the script is being written now, adding “It’s going to be very ambitious. It’s called Days of Future Past and it deals with aspects of that comic but also some very new things but I don’t want to give any of it away. Matthew Vaughan will be directing and I’m totally excited about it.”

So what is Days of Future Past? For those who haven’t been following the X-Men for the last 30 years, it’s a storyline that was first published in 1981 and deals with alternate timelines.

Set in a dystopian future in which Sentinels rule the United States, the X-Men – along with all mutants – are incarcerated in concentration camps.

Using her psychic abilities, Kitty Pryde transfers her mind to her younger, present-day self to forewarn the X-Men about the horrors that await them, and the political assassination that triggers it all.

This means that the movie could potentially tell parallel stories – Godfather: Part II style – with the Bryan Singer X-Men of Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen starring in the future story and the Matthew Vaughn cast of James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender appearing in the present (or past, depending on when they decide to pitch the timeline).

Obviously this is just speculation at the moment, and as with the previous X-Men movies, the filmmakers might just be using this concept as a jumping off point to tell their own story, but we nevertheless asked Singer if there would be any chance of crossover on this front:

“I think there’s a strong desire to broaden out the universe” he explained. “The X-Men universe is every bit on its own as big as the Marvel universe, and I think that it’s time to reach out and explore it and perhaps bring some connectivity between the films as Marvel has done so well. So, you may see some of that, I don’t know.”

Click on the video below to see the full interview, and let us know your thoughts on Days of Future Past in the comments below.

Chris Tilly is the Entertainment Editor for IGN and couldn't be more excited about this X-news. His idle chat can be found on both Twitter and MyIGN.

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J.J. Abrams' Earthquake Moves Forward

Oscar-winning writer Dustin Lance Black (Milk) has just been hired to write Universal's new Earthquake movie, which will be produced by J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk under their Bad Robot banner.

Deadline reports that, while the studio also produced another film called Earthquake in 1974 starring Charlton Heston, the title and subject matter are where their similarities end. In other words, this should not be considered a remake. Meanwhile, New Line continues development on its own competing Earthquake picture, San Andreas 3D.

Black is currently working on a number of projects, including Under the Banner of Heaven at Warner Bros. and Barefoot Bandit for Fox. He's also adapting the Dark Horse graphic novel 3 Story, which he intends to direct.

Source : ign[dot]com