SPLICED Issue 04\r\n\r\nX-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST\r\n\r\nISSUE 04\r\n\r\nquestion that X-Men raises loudly and clearly and\r\nDays goes further to present the very difficult, yet\r\npotentially very real situation in which the zealots\r\nwin out and let their own power spiral out of control\r\nuntil the very thing that they created to repress the\r\nminorities in turn repressed them in a totalitarian\r\nworld of zero tolerance and freedom. Heavy\r\nmetaphors, but it\'s just a silly comic movie, right? It\r\ncan\'t possibly be advocating homogeny, pop culture’s\r\ntoo dumb for such things.\r\nPeter Dinklage, most recently seen as Tyrion\r\nLannister in Game of Thrones, will be playing a very\r\ninteresting take on Bolivar Trask, the man behind\r\nthe Sentinels, whose moral indignation at what he\r\nviews as the blight of mutation will be an undoubtedly\r\nmalfeasant performance to behold. Dinklage has this\r\ninnate ability to utterly captiva te his audience, and\r\nhe\'s rather good at playing evil sods, and nothing is\r\nmore evilly soddish than a deluded moralist with a\r\ngenius intellect.\r\n\r\nBACK TO THE\r\nFUTURE PAST\r\nBryan Singer is a\r\nmassive fan of time\r\ntravel, especially\r\nof the Back to\r\nthe Future and\r\nTerminator 1 and 2\r\nfilms. Days of Future\r\nPast has often been\r\ncited as being quite\r\na huge influence\r\non the story of the\r\nfirst two Terminator\r\nfilms and Singer\r\nhappened to have\r\na chance meeting\r\nwith director James\r\nCameron where\r\nhe mentioned\r\nthat Terminator\r\ninfluenced his\r\ndirecting style for\r\nDays. Singer then\r\nasked Cameron to\r\nsign an art book,\r\nand Cameron\r\nwrote: \"Don’t fuck it\r\nup. Love, Jim\".\r\n\r\n68\r\n\r\nThe Sentinels themselves have actually been\r\na sticky point for some fans, with loyalists citing\r\nthat they were too small, looked too plastic and\r\nhad odd builds. The ‘70s Sentinels are the epitome\r\nof technology at the time, though obviously they\r\nseem dated now. The future robots, however, are\r\ncomplex fighting machines, able to adapt to mutants’\r\npowers. Extensive visual research has been put into\r\nthe designs by John Myhre, the production designer\r\nfor Days. He looked at the 70\'s style of design of\r\nmoulded, white and smoked plastics as well as a lot of\r\ncar design and futuristic concepts from the era, which\r\nwill undoubtedly look visually stunning on screen.\r\nHaving Wolverine in place of Shadowcat is also\r\nnot the worst breakaway from the original story - as\r\n\r\n