Simon Kinberg Talks Developments in X-Men Days of Future Past Final Moments

[WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS FOR X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST AHEAD]

The ending of X-Men: Days of Future Past reveals that the timeline of the series has been significantly altered and several characters who passed away in the previous films have come back to life, particularly Jean Grey and Cyclops. In a new interview, writer Simon Kinberg revealed that his first outline for the movie brought those characters back from the dead.

"I went back recently - like two days ago, because I've been in Baton Rouge and my brain's been in Fantastic Four - I put my brain back into Days of Future Past, and I looked at my original outline for the movie, which was dated exactly two years before we're premiering the movie: May 10th, 2012," he told Vulture. The original outline, the first thing anyone read - the studio, the producers, anyone - it was something me and Matthew Vaughan worked on together. In that original outline, the characters that come back at the end of this movie came back. For me, the fun of this movie from when I said, 'We should do Days of Future Past,' was literally the scene of changing the future and Jean is going to come back and Jean and Wolverine are going to have a reunion. Mainly because I carry such guilt over X-Men: [The Last Stand]. The way we killed Jean in X3 haunts me because I love the Dark Phoenix saga so much."

He also called X-Men: The Last Stand "a missed opportunity" and said he would do it differently if given the chance.

"That and Days of Future Past are my 2 favorite X-Men runs. So, I feel like what we did on 'Dark Phoenix' was not make it the 'Dark Phoenix' movie. We made 'The Cure' movie with 'Dark Phoenix' as a subplot. If I was going to do it now, and if we were doing it now because comic book movies are different, the darkness and the drama of that story would be differently supported."

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