![]() ![]() With this movie, and especially the extended "Rogue Cut", Bryan Singer essentially ignored several plot points from other movies in the franchise, so as to streamline and focus on the plot of this one. ![]() Ultimately, Fox and Marvel decided to cast different actors in the part for the "X-Men" and "Avengers" movies, with Aaron Taylor-Johnson taking on the role in the latter sequel, thus preventing any connection between the two franchises and keeping the X-Men confined to a separate universe from those of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Additionally, the day after the announcement of Peters' casting, Marvel and Fox entered into a legal standoff over provisions of the rights agreement for the character, including the issue of whether Peters would be allowed to portray Quicksilver in any other movie outside the X-Men film franchise, possibly necessitating a second actor to play Quicksilver in any Marvel movie, resulting in two different versions of the same character appearing in two competing film franchises. The rights agreement between Fox and Marvel even goes so far as to stipulate the character cannot be referred to as a "mutant" in any Marvel movie. However, in May 2013, Marvel and Fox Studios announced a resolution to the previous legal issues, and that Quicksilver would appear in this movie as well as an Avengers sequel, though under certain parameters: no reference to Quicksilver's membership in the Avengers can be made in an "X-Men" movie, and no allusion to his relations to the X-Men or Magneto (the character's father) can be made in an "Avengers" movie. Quicksilver had been discussed previously as a potential character in both X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) and The Avengers (2012), but legal complexities over the license to the character resulted in his omission from both movies. Quicksilver, to the cast sparked wide discussion over the direction of the character, who was also slated to appear in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015). The addition of Evan Peters as Pietro Maximoff, a.k.a. The theory also posits that Mystique offered to double as Kennedy in an attempt to grab power, all of which backfired horribly, leading to anti-mutant hostilities. The CIA conspiracy theorists, based on Magneto's testimony, insist however that Magneto had tried to prevent the murder of Kennedy, and that the true shooter was not Oswald, but Mystique in disguise, who, with the help of Emma Frost (also from X-Men: First Class (2011)), framed Magneto, and manipulated Jack Ruby into later murdering Oswald. The "Bent Bullet" Theory (a reference to the real-life "Magic Bullet" Theory criticized by conspiracy theorists) holds that the Warren Commission determined that Magneto manipulated Lee Harvey Oswald's bullets to kill the President in retribution for the murder of the mutants Azazel and Tempest (from X-Men: First Class (2011), though in the movie, Tempest was code named Angel). In this alternate history, Magneto is arrested and imprisoned for the assassination of Kennedy, but maintains his innocence. When Singer took over, he integrated these concepts into a viral marketing campaign to set up the action of the movie. Early ideas included an opening with the Kennedy assassination being caused by Magneto, and mutant encounters set during the Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam War. When Matthew Vaughn was going to direct, he was going to make this movie a direct sequel to X-Men: First Class (2011), and have it set in the 1970s. ![]()
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