X-Men: Days Of Future Past Featured On Cover Of EW Summer Movie Preview Issue

is featured on the cover off this week’s double-sized issue of Entertainment Weekly.X-Men Days of Future Past will be part of the issue’s summer movie preview.The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods in X-Men: Days of Future Past. The characters from the original X-Men film trilogy join forces with their younger selves from X-Men: First Class in an epic battle that must change the past – to save our future. The film is based on the classic 1980 X-Men story by Chris Claremont and John Byrne.Director Bryan Singer and writer Simon Kinberg told EW that they hoped the film would better familiarize audiences with the X-Men characters in order to turn the series into a much larger franchise.”The hope is that Days of Future Past will broaden the audience for X-Men such that it will motivate potential spin-offs even more,” Kinberg says. The challenge is that legions of non-comic fans are less familiar with the powerful mutants. “”Everyone grew up knowing Captain America or the Hulk, but not X-Men characters—I didn’t even know who Wolverine was,” Singer says. “I call X-Men the bastard stepchild of the comic universes.”X-Men: Days of Future Past comes to theaters May 23.