X-Men: "Days of Future Past"

I am doing this blog post in response to the upcoming film "X-Men: Days of Future Past" I recently saw a trailer for the upcoming film. I am also a former hardcore comic book collector and I have read the graphic novel that came out to reintroduce this story line back in the early 90's. I also know that most of these comic book superhero movies are changed slightly from the original story line.

"Days of Future Past" is a storyline in the Marvel Comics comic book The Uncanny X-Men issues #141-142, published in 1980. It deals with a dystopian future in which mutants are incarcerated in internment camps. An adult Kate Pryde transfers her mind into her younger self, the present-day Kitty Pryde, who brings the X-Men to prevent a fatal moment in history that triggers anti-mutant hysteria.

The storyline was produced during the franchise's rise to popularity under the writer/artist team of Chris Claremont, John Byrne and Terry Austin. The dark future seen in the story has been revisited numerous times. In 2001, fans voted the first issue of this storyline the 25th greatest Marvel comic.

The reality in which the story occurs is designated Earth-811 in the Marvel Multiverse.

The storyline alternates between the (then) present year of 1980, and the (then) future year of 2013. In the future, Sentinels rule a dystopian United States, and mutants are hunted and placed in internment camps. Having conquered North America, the Sentinels are turning their attention to mutants and other superhumans worldwide. On the eve of a feared nuclear holocaust, the few remaining X-Men send Kitty Pryde's mind backward through time, to possess the body of her younger self and to prevent a pivotal event in mutant–human history: the assassination of Senator Robert Kelly by Mystique's newly reassembled Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.

Working with the present-day X-Men, Kitty Pryde's future self succeeds in her mission and is pulled back to her own time, while her present-day self is returned with no memory of any interim. The world of 2013 is not shown again in this story arc; the present-day X-Men are left to ponder whether their future dystopia has been averted or simply delayed.

The Official Handbook to the Marvel Universe: Alternate Universes 2005 gave the numerical designation for the original "Days of Future Past" timeline as Earth-811.

From what I have seen in the trailers Wolverine is sent to past and runs into a young Magneto and Xavier. I am looking forward to the film and we will see how well they treat the comic story line. I am glad that they are doing Days of Future Past, and the other story line from the X-men universe I would suggest turning into a film is the Age of Apocalypse. That was an awesome story line to me.