On Saturday, director Bryan Singer has tweeted that Anna Paquin, Ellen Page, and Shawn Ashmore have signed on for Days of Future Past, the sequel to 2011's X-Men prequel First Class.
Paquin and Ashmore will reprise their roles as Marie/Rouge and Bobby/Iceman, the young star-crossed mutant lovers they've portrayed in the trilogy, which also co-starred Page (Kitty Pryde), Patrick Stewart (Professor X), Ian McKellen (Magneto) and Hugh Jackman (Logan/Wolverine). All three men will also appear in Days of Future Past alongside their younger counterparts -- including James McAvoy (Charles Xavier) and Michael Fassbender (Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto), as well as Hunger Games heroine Jennifer Lawrence (Raven/Mystique).
Days of Future Past will be the first X-Men film Singer directed since X2: X-Men United a decade ago before taking flight for 2006's Superman Returns with Brandon Routh; Brett Ratner succeeded with X-Men: The Last Stand that summer.
Production on Days of Future Past is scheduled to begin sometime this April, with a release date set for July 18, 2014.
Still, we'll be seeing Jackman as The Wolverine once more this coming July.
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