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Kinberg points to the moment Quicksilver touches the security guard’s cheek, and we see his skin move in ripple effect. The sequence may have been complex, but it was still surprisingly practical, with very little actual visual effects. It was slowly laid out through the previsualization process (or “previs” for short, which means creating animated storyboards), and all of the slow-motion scenes were filmed on the last two days of the entire shoot. “He felt like we had sort of exhausted, visually, Juggernaut’s powers in, and so he wanted a new character, a new kind of visual power, that we could explore,” Kinberg explains.īut even once Quicksilver was integrated, the kitchen scene was designed “way, way late in the game,” says editor John Ottman, who’s cut every one of director Bryan Singer’s features save for the first X-Men. The Quicksilver-for-Juggernaut swap was one of the first notes Vaughn’s replacement, X-Men vet Bryan Singer, delivered to screenwriter Simon Kinberg. Early versions of the script (when First Class director Matthew Vaughn was attached) didn’t even include Quicksilver it was the mutant Juggernaut who helped break Magneto out of Pentagon lockdown, mostly by busting through walls. The crowd-pleasing scene was actually a late addition to the film. In a standout, two-minute scene that has audiences giddily erupting in applause, the young mutant recruit impishly foils some soldiers’ attempts to capture Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine and Michael Fassbender’s Magneto by flicking away their bullets and making them punch each other - all to the smooth vocal stylings of Jim Croce’s “Time in a Bottle.” Ironically, the character that people are buzzing loudest about upon leaving the theater is a new X-face: the superspeedy Quicksilver, played by Evan Peters. X-Men: Days of Future Past was engineered to combine two familiar casts into one movie: the key cast from the first trilogy (Wolverine, the older Professor X and Magneto), and the 1960s crew of First Class (Jennifer Lawrence’s young Mystique, and the more youthful X and Magneto).

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