The holiday season is finally upon us. A time to reflect on days gone by and days yet to come. A time spend with friends and loved ones. A time to scream yourself hoarse at a computer screen because an X-Man is being left out X-Men: Days of Future Past. Although I guess “X-Woman” is a little more accurate, technically speaking, because the character getting the boot is Anna Paquin‘s Rogue. Director Bryan Singer recently revealed to EW that an action sequence featuring Paquin and a few of her X-cohorts has been cut from the film (Singer explains it in less-than-thrilling terms: “Through the editing process, the sequence became extraneous”). Yet this particular chunk of celluloid made up the entirety of Paquin’s role in Days of Future Past, so with a flash and a puff of smoke, she’ll disappear completely from the finished film. Not entirely surprising, given the high volume of X-Men Singer’s trying to squeeze into a single X-film. When you cram two separate ensemble casts into one two hour-ish action movie, then add on a shiny new future timeline complete with its own X-Men, it doesn’t seem like there’s going to be ample screen time for any particular character- at least, any character who’s not named Wolverine, Magneto or Charles Xavier. So the question must be asked: if Rogue only got a single scene (and a scene that wasn’t particularly crucial in the first place), how many other of Days of Future Past‘s considerable mutant cast are […]From Film School Rejects
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