X-Men: Days of Future Past Movie Compared to the Comics

As many of our readers have noted, there were a lot of changes made between the classic ’80s X-Men story “Days of Future Past” and the Bryan Singer film X-Men: Days of Future Past, released last week.First of all, there’s the issue of the apparent agendas of the respective works. In the case of the comic book story (which took place in Uncanny X-Men #141 and 142, with fallout on either end of that, and has been reprinted a number of times under the Days of Future Past label), the story primarily was an end in itself. Self-contained stories were more common back then and if there was a particular editorial “reason” for the tale, it was likely to throw a spotlight on the then-new character Kitty Pryde, who served as the main character in the story.That’s the biggest change between the movie and the comic, of course; Kitty Pryde has been seen in a number of the X-Men movies, but is a very minor character onscreen. In the case of the movie, her role — to be slingshotted psychically back through time, her consciousness possessing her younger body — was fulfilled by Wolverine.