Today is the DVD and Blu-Ray release date for X-Men: Days of Future Past, the blockbuster summer film that united the casts of 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand and 2011’s X-Men: First Class, in an exciting adaptation of a classic X-story by Chris Claremont, John Byrne, and Terry Austin. If you haven’t seen it already, wait until you meet the super-speedy Quicksilver, who practically steals the movie! (Or, if you prefer, you can wait until 2015 to purchase the Director’s Cut, which reportedly will include all of Anna Paquin’s scenes as Rogue that are missing in the theatrical version.)
All this reminds me of this post I wrote back on May 23rd, when the film originally hit theaters. Give it a read, and learn all about my own work with Marvel Comics’ Merry Mutants, in a set of bestselling novels that I wrote titled X-Men: The Chaos Engine Trilogy. In it, the X-Men battled Dr. Doom, Magneto, and the Red Skull for possession of the Cosmic Cube—a device that can alter reality with the merest thought. (You Marvel movie fans might better recognize it as the Tesseract, seen in Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger, The Avengers, and Guardians of the Galaxy.) And the star of this three-volume epic wasn’t Wolverine or Phoenix or Cyclops or Storm, but the X-Men’s resident ninja and psychic assassin, Psylocke. So click that link and give it a read!
