‘X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST'

What better way to connect the first events and characters of the first three X-Men movies to those of X-Men: First Class than with a neat time-travel plot?
That’s the idea behind X-Men: Days of Future Past, in which a 21st century Wolverine has his consciousness sent back to his 1970s body, with the task of preventing the dark path that mankind and mutant kind alike are set upon.

In the comic book arc after which the film is named, the mutants face a future in which they are rounded up and either killed or placed in concentration camps through the use of technology created by Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage), including the dreaded Sentinels.

The mutant-hunting robots were just one of the innovations featured on a viral site for Trask Industries that was launched earlier this year.

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