Can ‘Days of Future Past’ Save Fox’s ‘X-Men’ Series? (Analysis)

As the latest trailer makes clear, there’s a lot at stake for X-Men: Days of Future Past. “We now find ourselves on the edge of extinction,” one character tells the audience. “We’ve been given a second chance,” says another. As suitably melodramatic as that sounds as the core of a time-travel movie, there’s a meta-commentary to such dialogue, pointing to the future of the X-Men movie franchise itself and the possibility to re-imagine its future in the wake of this summer’s installment.

From yesterday, from me at THR: Can X-Men: Days of Future Past help Fox remake the X-Men movie franchise to lose the dead weight of those first three films?