Bryan Singer

The man behind Days of Future Past

X-Men: Days of Future Past is the 2014 superhero movie of Bryan Singers repertoire that won the Jupiter Award for ‘Best International Film’ and the first ever of the X-Men movie franchise to be nominated for an Oscar. As the seventh instalment in the X-Men film series, it was both directed and produced by Bryan Singer. Singer made his big return to the helm for the sequel after having directed the two original movies X-men (2000) and X2 (2003) eleven years prior and managed to ensembled an all-star cast, including the original members of the X-Men.

The film follows Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) in a dystopian era where mutants are being made extinct by robotic Sentinels. He re-joins X-Men and is sent back in time to 1973 to stop Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage) from obtaining Mystique’s (Jennifer Lawrence) DNA and using it to power the Sentinels, an act that caused the mutant apocalypse, dooming both humans and mutants alike. In the past he is forced to recruit the younger versions of Charles Xavier (James McAvoy), Erik Lehnsherr (Michael Fassbender) and Hank McCoy (Nicholas Hoult) to aid him on his mission. The events of the film are responsible for severely altering the timeline of the X-Men film series.

The movie was released worldwide to highly positive critical appraisal; in just 9 days at the box office it broke the franchise box office record and became the highest grossing film in the franchise to date. The film earned over $746 million worldwide, making it the sixth highest grossing film of 2014. It is the second-best reviewed film in the X-Men series, second to Logan (2017) and has drawn attention for its visual effects, action scenes, thematic elements along with Singers direction.