Patrick Stewart And Ian McKellen Won’t Return For ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’
By Germain Lussier/Jan. 19, 2015 6:30 am EST
Yahoo Movies first reported on the lack of casting. Here’s the clip:
If you can’t get the video to work, Stewart said the following when asked about the film by Larry King:
Now, of course, this makes partial sense. The main reason Stewart and McKellen appeared in X-Men: Days of Future Past was because they were playing the older version of their younger characters, played by James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender. The film ends with the timeline reset and everyone set in the new “present.”
No. Nor Sir Ian McKellen, either. I was learning quite a lot more about it last night, and it is going to be looking very much at the earlier lives of all our characters. And so I don’t think we’ll be making an appearance.
X-Men Apocalypse doesn’t take place in the present, though. It takes place in the 1980s, sometimes between the third act of Days of Future Past and the very end, where Stewart is back. So Professor X and Magneto will be younger than Stewart and McKellen. McAvoy and Fassbender will be back, once again directed by Bryan Singer.
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