X-Men: Days of Future Past: Rogue Cut Coming in Summer 2015

Posted by on January 2nd, 2015   Filed under: Action, Books/Comics, DVD and Blu-ray
Source: X-Men Films

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Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past managed to balance a pretty sizable cast that included multiple versions of several characters and some completely new ones as well. However, in order to keep things focused, some sacrifices had to be made. As many fans know, there was at least one big character left on the cutting room floor when Anna Paquin’s scenes as Rogue ended up being excised because they ultimately did not service the main story. Fortunately, it looks as though that footage will still see the light of day as part of an all-new extended cut of the film and now we are hearing that it will likely arrive in the summer of 2015. Hit the jump for more details.

Executive producer Lauren Shuler Donner originally hinted that a new extended cut of X-Men: Days of Future Past might be in the works for 2014, but a 2015 release was later confirmed by Fox Home Entertainment EVP of marketing communications, James Finn. Now Finn has once again taken to Twitter to offer some additional details. According to him, the new Rogue Cut will be a standalone Blu-ray release that has its own unique set of special features. It will not include the theatrical version of the movie and is instead being viewed as a companion piece to the original. There is no 3D version currently planned.

If you want to know more about the Rogue subplot that will be restored, screenwriter Simon Kinberg goes into more detail in an interview with Empire. I like the fact that it sounds like it gives Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen more to do, although I’m still not sure that this one additional sequence is enough to justify a whole new version of the film. It makes me wonder if an alternate version is really necessary when the original cut is pretty decent to begin with. Are you looking forward to the so-called Rogue Cut of X-Men: Days of Future Past?



  • Matt

    more Quicksilver or GTFO

  • Kasper

    Rogue was one of the best things of the old films so I’m excited.

  • 1138sw

    I’ve liked all the X-men films for the most part with the exception of the Ratner version which I rather not remember as part of the franchise. But for some reason I just feel no matter what Fox does with this franchise I really feel like all the movies just fall short for some reason. I can’t put my finger on it but the movies never seem to rise and match the intensity of the comics and their stories or really capture the essence of the characters that I grew to love.

    Now that is not to say Stewart, Mckellan, McAvoy and Jackman weren’t great in there roles..they were and I really enjoyed them. But the rest of the universe seems so bland and I think that tapestry could make the X-men universe seem so much better.

    That said am I interested in this added bonus feature…? not really. I’ll wait until Marvel gets the rights back…and I know I might be waiting a long long time.

  • ECONOMYpolitica

    Does she get her powers back? She’s no longer a mutant in DOFP.

  • Sean

    DOFP seems to ignore most of what happened in The Last Stand.

  • ECONOMYpolitica

    That sucks. I really enjoyed The Last Stand.

  • Captain Morgan

    Bear in mind Magneto does manage to move the chess piece at the end of The Last Stand after he’s been injected. The implication being that it only works for a short while and that eventually everyone’s powers would come back regardless.

  • Flo Lieb

    That probably makes two with you and Mr. Ratner :)

  • Flo Lieb

    It seems odd to me that people think, Marvel would make a huge hit out of anything. Give them “Maus” and they’ll turn it into the 3D adventure of the year! “Iron Man 2″ and “The Incredible Hulk” are also both Marvel movies and neither is pretty great. Also the quality of their other films such as “The Avengers” is debatable.

    But I do agree, that Fox should move on from Wolverine as the central X-Men character, that Storm is underwritten and characters like Colossus and Nightcrawler (or even Beast for that matter) underutilized. Concerning Cyclops it seems that he and Jean Grey will be featured in “Apocalypse” so maybe there he will receive proper treatment.

  • Jameson

    With Wolverine, it comes down to 2 things: 1) Hugh Jackman has star power. A lot of the other actors don’t quite have the same marketing appeal and 2) He’s literally perfect as the character. They want to utilize him as much as possible before he can’t/won’t do it anymore

    It’s kinda like how in The Amazing Spider-Man 2, they shamelessly avoided casting J. J. Jameson because J. K. Simmons was the most spot-on casting choice.

    It’s also the same way they’re gonna drag out RDJ as Iron Man for as long as they can. Or they’re not gonna be in a rush to recast him.

  • 1138sw

    I didn’t mean to imply that Marvel would make anything into a hit or never have any missteps. As you stated IM2 and in my opinion IM3 weren’t that great with IM2 just being almost flat out bad. The Thor movies were luke warm IMO. Though I did enjoy the Norton Hulk version even with all it’s flaws.

    But for the most part Marvel has done a really good job in culminating a very expansive universe in spite of some hit and misses. Better than the WB with a DC Universe they have been struggling for decades to make viable on multiple levels. Only now that Marvel has kind of shown the way has the WB began to follow the blueprint of their success.

    Better than Sony which got off to a great start but has since muttered and sputtered along with Spidey and clearly lost it’s way with that character. Scrambling for ideas and shelving one of the most iconic characters in comic history does not exhibit any confidence whatsoever.

    As for Fox they have two properties with extreme potential both with built in audiences that have spanned decades past with a new audience being built through the comics coming for future decades. Yet the FF Languishes with a skeptical reboot on the horizon. The FF movies were just terrible with not even a clear understanding of the legacy of the FF.

    And lots not forget The wolverine series and Xmen movies. I enjoyed the X-men series as stated with my previous post (with exception of Last Stand of course) but as I stated potential has never been fully fulfilled or even understood. They rely on Hugh Jack not only for his star power but because they don’t know how to create a cohesive X-men universe without him… or they don’t trust that they can create an exciting universe without him. As for the Wolverine Series…well…they’re nothing to write home about.

    I’m not saying Marvel is the end all be all…but they have managed these characters for decades and created legacies that will last for generations. And it’s because of that reasoning I would think the percentages are in their favor that they might be able to make better movies than the big studios. At the very least I am curious to see what they could do when the big studios have clearly missed opportunities.