Contrary to early reports, it has now been confirmed Anna Paquin/Rogue is in X-Men: Days of Future Past.
After reports last December from Bryan Singer stated that due to choices made in the editing room, Anna Paquin’s (apparently only) scene as Rogue had been cut from the film, fans of the most lonely of superheroines are offered some light at the end of the tunnel, and it’s not from Rogue’s touch blinding them!
After catching Ms. Paquin’s name in the credits for the most recent X-Men: Days of Future Past trailer, Buzzfeed reached out to 20th Century Fox to again double-check on the status of the Mississippian mutant. The response? She is in the film! However, the spokesman cautioned, “Essentially, [it’s] a cameo.”
Whether that is reason to celebrate or not remains to be seen, particularly because it is unclear whether this will be the scene that Singer shot for the mutant who was one of the original stars of 2000’s X-Men, or if it might only be that she is in the background of another scene. At the very least, Rogue will be making a punctuated return to the big screen next month.
X-Men: Days of Future Past opens on May 23, 2014. Directed by Bryan Singer, the man who launched the cinematic X-franchise, it will not only reunite the all-important X-Men trinity of Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, and Ian McKellen, but it will also team them up with their younger X-Men: First Class counterparts like Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, and James McAvoy. And that's just the start! Plenty of old X-Men favorites, including Shawn Ashmore's Iceman and Ellen Page’s Kitty Pryde are back for this one, too. Whatever X-Men: Days of Future Past may turn out to be, it won't be dull!
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