X-Men: Days of Future Past Comic Writer Talks About the Movie

Chris Claremont, the famed X-Men writer who, among other things, wrote the fan-favorite story Days of Future Past, (as well as things like The Dark Phoenix Saga and Mutant Massacre) upon which the next movie will be based, recently discussed the movie with Newsarama, telling the site that of course he's invested in how the film comes out. Spoilers ahead for X-Men: Days of Future Past (the comics and possibly/probably the movie). "You can't not be invested," Claremont said. "That's pretty much most of my working life, dancing around or through the X-Men as a concept." "The challenge, I would think, for [director Bryan Singer] is that the heart of the original story is not the fight with the Brotherhood back in the present day. The challenge, the story, is actually what happens in the future. Getting them to the point where you can send Kitty back, and seeing the consequences of what will happen if they fail, and not knowing at the end how it's going to turn out. You think it's going to be a happy ending, but you're not sure, because pretty much everybody dies — in the comic, anyway." He added, "The really nice thing with Future Past is that you actually have a superhero film — much to everyone's surprise, I will hope — that is about something. It's about racism, I hope. It's about resisting oppression. It's about fighting for freedom and the cost of fighting for freedom. I will be fascinated to see how they weave the two together."