X-Men: Days of Future Past Narrative Continuity Established, Apocalypse Teased

The secrets of the time that has elapsed between The Wolverine and Days of Future Past are unravelled right here!
20th Century Fox have this weekend unveiled a new official viral website for their upcoming superhero ensemble movie X-Men: Days of Future Past, as well as tantalising new details on their 2016 sequel X-Men: Apocalypse. Based loosely on a 1980s comic-book story arc, Days will bring together the casts of both the original X-Men trilogy and 2011's X-Men: First Class.

First up on the agenda are director Bryan Singer's comments on his next project, Apocalypse. Not content with letting us know who's at the helm of this year's X-Men blockbuster, Singer has confirmed that James McAvoy's Charles Xavier, Michael Fassbender's Magneto, Nicholas Hoult's Beast and Jennifer Lawrence's Mystique will head up the next fully-fledged instalment in the franchise, which well be set in the 1980s (at least seven years after the events of Days, for those keeping track of such details).

Now that's out of the way, let's get onto the real meat of Fox's latest marketing update for Days. Here's our round-up of the new details which have been unveiled about the current state of the X-Men franchise's temporal continuity at the '25 Years' viral site (http://www.25moments.com/#!/moments):

• 1963- Erik Lennsherr (Fassbender) is linked to the death of John F. Kennedy on November 22nd and is imprisoned as a result of this connection.
• 1965- Charles (McAvoy) sets up his School for Gifted Youngsters.
• 1967- Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage) takes the world of medicine by storm with the creation of the first artificial limbs (possibly explaining how Charles is able to walk in the 1970s sections of the film).
• 1973- The first incarnation of the Sentinel weapon is announced by Trask Industries. (Days' past segments pick up during this period.)
• 1977- Quicksilver manages to claim a total of eight world records at an athletics competition, forcing the government to outlaw mutants at such events.
• 1986- The infamous Chernobyl nuclear incident causes the birth of a host of mutant infants, including the X-Man Colossus (who's still alive by the time of Days' future segments in 2023).
• 1988- The Berlin Wall is used to separate Germany's mutant population from its non-mutants, and it still stands tall in 2023.
• 2001- Camp X-Ray is established in Guantanamo Bay as a prison for mutants who have found themselves on the government's Most Wanted shortlist.
• 2006- The events of X-Men: The Last Stand leave San Fransisco devastated, with mutants across the world electing to aid in the city's recovery efforts.
• 2010- Charles' School for Gifted Youngsters is taken over by Trask Industries and transformed into a mutant research centre.
• 2011- X-Men: The Last Stand's Angel is killed in an attempt by the remaining X-Men and the Occupy Wall Street movement to reclaim the X-Mansion.
• 2012- Blink enlists the help of 30 imprisoned mutants to escape Trask Industries' near-impenetrable prison facilities.
• 2013- The near-omnipotent Sentinel Mark X is revealed (at which point a resurrected Professor X and Magneto recruit Logan to assist in the X-Men's final battle, as seen in the post-credits scene of The Wolverine last July).
• 2015- Beast is assassinated by a deadly army of Human Majority rebels in New York City.
• 2018- Bishop establishes the "Free Mutants" movement to rally the remaining members of his race against their Trask enslavers and to regain their rights before it's too late!

X-Men: Days of Future Past warps into UK cinemas nationwide this May 22nd.