X-Men (Film Series) - Timeline

DIrishB said:
"William Stryker recruits James and Victor to the Team X".

They have that occurring in 1976. That's wrong, it happened in 1973 or earlier, while the Vietnam War was still going on. The last US troops pulled out of Vietnam in 1975 so it definitely happened before that, and there was a 6 year jump in time from when Wolverine left Team X during the Africa mission to obtain Adamantium, to the events we know occurred in 1979 due to the movies conclusion setting up the 3 Mile Island incident. So yeah, Origins - Wolverine occurs from 1845-1944 during the opening credit montage, then the Vietnam portions occur sometime around 1973 or prior (depends how long Wolverine and Sabretoofh were with Team X), but for simplicity's sake I assume it wasn't long. Then everything from finding Wolverine in Canada with Silver Fox on occurs in 1979.
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I haven't seen Origins in a long time and I am fairly fuzzy on the exact details of the opening montage, but isn't it possible that (I am really reaching here) A)Wolverine was held as a POW for an unknown period of time or B) Striker was in Vietnam outside of US jurisdiction.
 
Mattimeo84 said:
I haven't seen Origins in a long time and I am fairly fuzzy on the exact details of the opening montage, but isn't it possible that (I am really reaching here) A)Wolverine was held as a POW for an unknown period of time or B) Striker was in Vietnam outside of US jurisdiction.
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I doubt it. It was clear Wolverine and Sabretooth were with US Army troops during the war, and Sabretooth turned on the troops and Wolverine (out of a misplaced sense of loyalty) also did. They were surrounded and the next scene cuts to their "execution" by firing squad.

I doubt they'd be held for years before that execution, let alone after. I figure Stryker was informed or found out about their survival and knew what they were, so went to recruit them.

Also, like I said, the majority of the film is confirmed as occurring in 1979, and there is an established six year jump between Wolverine leaving Team X after the mission in Africa to obtain the Adamantium and it picking up 6 years later with Wolverine in Canada with Silver Fox, that places the Team X mission concretely in 1973. There's no way that Stryker recruited them in 1976 given the information explicitly given in the film itself. It's possible he recruited them prior to 1973, as I said, but for simplicity's sake I place it occurring in 1973.
 
Mark Millar Says The Fantastic Four Movie Will Take Place In X-Men Movie Universe


Without question I think you have to see some of these guys showing up in each other's movies. I think the most exciting thing in superhero movies, until The Avengers came along, was when Nick Fury showed up in Iron Man. Even though it was a guy with an eye patch it was really cool – and I expect we will see more of that.
 
Ice said:
Mark Millar Says The Fantastic Four Movie Will Take Place In X-Men Movie Universe

Without question I think you have to see some of these guys showing up in each other’s movies. I think the most exciting thing in superhero movies, until The Avengers came along, was when Nick Fury showed up in Iron Man. Even though it was a guy with an eye patch it was really cool – and I expect we will see more of that.
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Yeah, I'll add it to the timeline once we get some casting info and its a sure thing. I mean I know its likely to happen, but I just want to see if it'll be titles something other than "Fantastic Four" or if it doesn't fall apart at the last minute. It's scheduled for 2015, isn't it?
 
So according to Bryan Singer in this article that the future portions of Days of Future Past occur in 2023. This seems to place The Wolverine in 2021 (with the after credits scene occurring in 2023), X2 and The Last Stand in 2013, and X-Men in 2012.

That pretty much makes Xavier's mention of Wolverine's memory loss as occurring 15 years before X-Men incorrect...it'd actually be 23 years. Course there's also his mention that he and Magneto met when they were 17, which First Class negated, so...I guess the X-Men movie timeline is a complete mess. I'm guessing DoFP will somehow reconcile all these inconsistencies, but I'm not holding my breath.

Course, that makes Xavier and Magneto in their early 80's at the time of the original trilogy, and in their early 90's by Days of Future Past's future portions. Now given Xavier's body switch in The Last Stand's after credits scene (and the likelihood he's just using a projected psychic image in his new younger body to appear as his original self), in Xavier's case there's an explanation. But in Magneto's case it does stretch the element of believability. Or maybe he's used some of Mystique's youth-enhancing DNA to appear slightly younger than that.

Eh, not a big deal.
 
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Captain Canuck said:
Maybe the future portions are different from the modern day? Maybe they're further into the future?
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Not sure what you mean. It's confirmed the "present day" portions (with Wolverine's consciousness being sent back in time) are the future portions (occurring in 2023 according to Singer), and the past portions with the First Class versions of characters occurs in 1973, so there's a big 50 year span between the past and future portions. It remains to be seen how much Wolverine's actions in the past affect their future.
 
DIrishB said:
Not sure what you mean. It's confirmed the "present day" portions (with Wolverine's consciousness being sent back in time) are the future portions (occurring in 2023 according to Singer), and the past portions with the First Class versions of characters occurs in 1973, so there's a big 50 year span between the past and future portions. It remains to be seen how much Wolverine's actions in the past affect their future.
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Right but that doesn't mean DOFP takes place immediately after The Wolverine's end credits. Ice posted a link in the DOFP thread in which Singer states that a lot of the old guard are dead or hunted down by the time you get to DOFP (Although, Storm, Kitty, Iceman, Colossus, Rogue, Prof X, Magneto, and Wolverine are all there). Wolverine has grey hair as well.

So maybe the end credits scene from The Wolverine is several years before DOFP. They find Wolverine and recruit him because they know bad things are coming, but it hasn't happened yet. There was a commercial in the airport introducing the sentinels. Cut to 5 or 10 years later and things are out of hand and they decide to risk sending Wolverine back in time to fix things.
 
Captain Canuck said:
Right but that doesn't mean DOFP takes place immediately after The Wolverine's end credits. Ice posted a link in the DOFP thread in which Singer states that a lot of the old guard are dead or hunted down by the time you get to DOFP (Although, Storm, Kitty, Iceman, Colossus, Rogue, Prof X, Magneto, and Wolverine are all there). Wolverine has grey hair as well. So maybe the end credits scene from The Wolverine is several years before DOFP. They find Wolverine and recruit him because they know bad things are coming, but it hasn't happened yet. There was a commercial in the airport introducing the sentinels. Cut to 5 or 10 years later and things are out of hand and they decide to risk sending Wolverine back in time to fix things.
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That's a good point and one I've considered. I haven't seen the after credits scene in The Wolverine movie yet (I went with my friend Chi and she didn't want to sit through the credits...she owes me a huge one, now), so can't compare them in context of each other.

I just figured since they were recruiting Wolverine it was likely happening not long before the events of DoFP. You may be right, though, that there's a longer span of time between that post credits scene and DoFP. I don't think it's too long a span of time based on the appearance of the younger X-Men (Iceman, Rogue, Kitty--they don't appear 20 years older versus their appearance in The Last Stand). And we know at least 10 years separates The Last Stand and The Wolverine post credit scene (the majority of Wolverine occurring 8 years after The Last Stand and the post credits scene occurring 2 years after that). I'll fiddle with it some.

Also, I may be wrong but I figured Wolverine's gray hair in the future portions of DoFP were lingering effects of what happened in The Wolverine. I need to watch it again, waiting on the Extended Edition DVD to come out.
 
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DIrishB said:
Also, I may be wrong but I figured Wolverine's gray hair in the future portions of DoFP were lingering effects of what happened in The Wolverine. I need to watch it again, waiting on the Extended Edition DVD to come out.
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It's not. In the link I posted in the movie thread where Singer breaks the trailer down, he gives a reason for that, which has nothing to do with The Wolverine.
 
Ice said:
It's not. In the link I posted in the movie thread where Singer breaks the trailer down, he gives a reason for that, which has nothing to do with The Wolverine.
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So what's the reason? I read the trailer breakdown you posted but I don't remember anything about that.

Captain Canuck said:
What's are you talking about? Iceman has a beard now!!!!!!11!
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Dude, I can grow a beard like that from being clean shaven in like 4 days. ;)

Plus Storm, Kitty, Rogue, all still look pretty close to how they looked in The Last Stand.

But like you said, it's possible the post credit airport scene from Wolverine occurs years before where Days of Future Past picks up. Maybe there'll be hints of how long Wolverine has been back in the fold in DoFP.
 
DIrishB said:
So what's the reason? I read the trailer breakdown you posted but I don't remember anything about that.
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It's right in the second slide.

"The grey in the hair is something I took from X-Men Days Of Future Past, it's a look in the comic," says Singer. "I liked it, even though he hasn't really aged physically it's something that shows how tough things have gotten in the future, and brought that out in him and given him a little more world-weariness."
 
DIrishB said:
Dude, I can grow a beard like that from being clean shaven in like 4 days. ;)

Plus Storm, Kitty, Rogue, all still look pretty close to how they looked in The Last Stand.
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And according to your profile, you're 32 which means you were in high school 15 or so years ago.

I rest my case :p
 
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