Check out a cool new X-Men: Days of Future Past viral site that details all the events between 1963 and 2018 that led to the war...
Set in two separate periods, X-Men: Days of Future Past features a lengthy timeline. Indeed, the entire cinematic X-universe, which has already been stretched as far back as the Holocaust in the very first X-Men movie and added as a curious wrinkle to the Cuban Missile Crisis in X-Men: First Class, can have its own tricky, varied history. Luckily 20th Century Fox has launched today a new website called 25moments.com. In this online alternate history lesson, visitors can discover a vast expanse of humanity’s “struggle” against the X-Men between 1962 and 2018, resulting in the grim “fate of a species.”
In one of the niftiest bits of viral marketing we’ve ever seen for a superhero movie, you can learn how the intervening years between First Class and Days of Future Past played out including, Magneto’s role in the JFK assassination and Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage) making a mysterious deal with President Richard M. Nixon in 1972 that resulted in 18 and a half minutes of tape being erased…
The viral site includes many more moments from the 20th century, including the mutants’ role in the formation of Guantanamo Bay’s detention center and a Russian spike of mutations following the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown. However, things get grim the further after 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand we go. For example, it appears the Sentinels confiscate Xavier’s mansion in 2010….
Click on the website yourself to explore all the history.
X-Men: Days of Future Past, uniting casts new and old, opens May 23, 2014.
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