It was recently revealed that Fox will release a "Rogue Cut" of X-Men: Days of Future Past next year which will include all of Anna Paquin's scenes and more. In a recent interview with Collider, writer and producer Simon Kinberg had this to say about the decision to release an extended version of the "inbetweenquel" in 2015 following its home video release this winter. "[We] weren’t sure how we were gonna release the Rogue Cut. But there was so much to do with the theatrical cut and so much material we wanted to put on that first wave that I guess it made sense ot do it as two separate releases, and also doing the Rogue Cut would take more time than we really have for this first release." With Fox apparently completing the special effects in some cut scenes for this version of the movie, the site asked Kinberg whether or not we might see the movie re-released on the big screen too. "Not that I know of. As far as I know it’s a home entertainment release."
Quicksilver was obviously a major talking point before X-Men: Days of Future Past was released and just about everyone was shocked when Evan Peters ended up stealing the show in a fantastic scene. Asked to comment on this, Kinberg added: "We showed it to friends and family at a few screenings, and I could tell from just those initial screenings of the response in the room, in the moment, to that Quicksilver sequence that it was special. Certainly you never know until a movie comes out if people are gonna embrace it or reject it no matter how big the title—sometimes that’s an even bigger challenge—so I was as nervous as I’ve ever been with that movie coming out. But the critical response, the fan response, the mainstream response, I’m very happy with the way people embraced the film. For the Quicksilver sequence, from the first time that Bryan really conceived it and described it, I thought it had the chance to be something really special and memorable. The sequence that it most reminded me of in the conceptual stages was the opening sequence of X2 with Nightcrawler, which to me is still one of the great action sequences certainly in superhero movies but maybe any movie, so we were responding to that."
Talk then turned to Star Wars Rebels, the Disney XD series which Kinberg is writing and producing. George Lucas' involvement was nonexistant, he is a fan! "[We] showed the pilot to George Lucas, and George really liked it. I would say George Lucas’ approval was #1 and my kids’ approval was #2 for me. He knew what we were doing but he was seeing the pilot for the first time." As for his work on one of the upcoming live-action Star Wars spin-offs, he teased: "That’s the one thing I cannot ever talk about (laughs). I would say it’s something I’m very excited about and I think that’s all I’m allowed to say on that." What do you guys think of these latest comments?
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