X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST Producer Reveals Unintended, Hard To Spot Easter Egg

X-Men: Days of Future Past producer Simon Kinberg has now shared details on an unintended Rogue Easter Egg in the theatrical cut, which is in there...because they couldn't be bothered to remove it!

By RubyGoldstone - Jun 04, 2020 06:06 AM EST

Filed Under: X-Men: Days of Future Past

Source: IGN

Dark Phoenix director and X-Men: Days of Future Past writer and producer Simon Kinberg recently sat down with IGN, and revealed that a hard to spot Rogue Easter Egg remains in the non-Rogue Cut of the film. Anna Paquin originally reprised the role on the fan-favorite mutant in the 2014 release, but ended up being removed from the theatrical version of the movie.

"The pillars in [the X-Men's hideout] are mirrored," Kinberg pointed out during an X-Men: Days of Future Past watch party. "We only realized very late that, in one of the mirrors we have, from the Rogue Cut, Rogue actually in the mirror instead of Kitty. It's a really deep, deep cut, unintentionally and completely accidentally."

As for why it wasn't removed in post, he noted, "But we were like, 'It's taken us this long to notice it. We don't think an audience is going to notice it.' And no audience seems to have noticed it, or at least talked about it."

It's true that no one has spotted it, but also an example of sloppy filmmaking which doesn't say much about the disgraced Bryan Singer's attitude behind the camera.

Eventually, the Rogue Cut of the film was released on Blu-ray, and that saw the character absorb Kitty Pryde's powers to keep Wolverine in the past, as well as the death of Shawn Ashmore's Iceman.

Rogue hasn't been seen in Fox's X-Men Universe since, and it's now down to Marvel Studios to reboot the powerful mutant for the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the not too distant future.

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WruceBayne - 6/4/2020, 6:14 AM

“Easter egg”...? That seems to be more of a lack of attention to detail to me.

Manmarvel - 6/4/2020, 6:29 AM

@WruceBayne - I read and reread to figure out where the "Easter egg" was. That was an editing goof, that's all. This reminds me of people that never use "ironically" correctly.

WruceBayne - 6/4/2020, 6:38 AM

@Manmarvel - absolutely

ComicBookPsycho - 6/4/2020, 6:15 AM

This movie is [frick]ing amazing!! It was a wild ride from start to finish, and had some of the best acting and writing in superhero movies.

Thought it was much better than First Class tbh.

DaHyro - 6/4/2020, 6:17 AM

@ComicBookPsycho - They’re both great for their own reasons, but i love DOFP a little more because of the integration of the OG cast.

People like to shit on these movies because they’re not MCU, but man, it’s going to be really hard for Feige to replace McAvoy/Stewart, Fassbender/McKellen, and Hugh Jackman

DaHyro - 6/4/2020, 6:15 AM

DOFP is the true ending to the FoX-Men universe. It’s a shame they never made a sequel to it ;)

Himura - 6/4/2020, 6:20 AM

@DaHyro - I consider Logan to be an epilogue to the FoX-Men.

DaHyro - 6/4/2020, 7:18 AM

@Himura - I love Logan dearly; but [frick], it’s hard to watch. It’s just really sad to know that the X-Men I grew up with all died a horrible death because of Charles.

Again, I love Logan, but I try to think of it as an elseworlds type story. It’s just too depressing of an ending for me

mastakilla39 - 6/4/2020, 8:24 AM

@DaHyro - Yeah to add to that Logan shows that his actions to save the X-men & mutant race from extinction in DOFP failed. All he did was delay their demise because Charles ends up murdering all the x-men and Essex corp found a way to suppress the mutant genes through corn so mutants became extinct anyway.

It all goes full circle in his realization that it's pointless to save people because they all eventually die, no one is immortal (including him), nor can they escape "the rules of time" that were mentioned in DOFP.

I think that's why he was in such a dark place at the beginning of Logan and gave up being a superhero.

RokoVII - 6/4/2020, 8:25 AM

@Himura - exactly, perfectly put

JustALurker - 6/4/2020, 8:39 AM

@Himura - IDK, logan is a good wolvirine ending but it completly sideways the X-men. They all died off-screen. DoFP is a good X-men ending. Logan is a sendoff to wloverine.

JustALurker - 6/4/2020, 8:40 AM

@mastakilla39 - that is a horrible message when you view it that way. It works for wolvirine alone because he was immortal, but not the X-men.

mastakilla39 - 6/4/2020, 9:03 AM

@JustALurker - I don't think its a horrible message.

Logan shows at the end of the film, your BELIEFS & HOPE will carry onto the next generation if you inspire them. It's up to them to pick up where you ended and learn where you failed. That's the most satisfying ending for a REAL SUPERHERO.

There has to be consequences for messing with time and destroying the natural order. I think the next phase of the MCU has to explore that too. Whatever the avengers did in Endgame should have consequences as Karl Mordo hinted in Dr Strange 1:

"You still think there will be no consequences, Strange? No price to pay? We broke our rules. Just like her. The bill comes due. Always!"

Himura - 6/4/2020, 9:28 PM

@JustALurker - that's why its an epilogue. Epilogues don't have to focus on every thing that happened previously. Its a nice little bookend to satisfy you juuust enough. The main FoX-Men's stories "ended" on-screen with DoFP just fine.

GhostDog - 6/4/2020, 6:16 AM

"Anna Paquin originally reprised the role on the fan-favorite mutant in the 2014 release, but ended up being removed in reshoots"

Forthas - 6/4/2020, 6:21 AM

I hope that Marvel reboots the SAME Fox X-men actors as the same characters in the MCU.

Kyos - 6/4/2020, 6:31 AM

@Forthas

Forthas - 6/4/2020, 6:38 AM

@Kyos -

Kyos - 6/4/2020, 6:40 AM

@Forthas - Also the actor/character combos audiences actually cared about have retired multiple times already.

Kyos - 6/4/2020, 6:27 AM

Yay for deep cut, unintentional easter eggs!

WeaponXCII - 6/4/2020, 6:41 AM

“We don’t think an audience is going to notice it.”

Fox’s motto on their X-Men franchise.

Chewtoy - 6/4/2020, 6:58 AM

I’m not one to defend Fox’s X-men movies, but all films have a budget and I bet that quite a few film gaffes that audiences do notice were also noticed by the filmmakers before the movie was complete and they said “Screw it... it’s small, and we don’t have the time or budget to bother with it.”

Himura - 6/4/2020, 7:18 AM

@Chewtoy - That's actually pretty common in the art and design business. Making deadlines is more important than making something perfect.

EskimoJ - 6/4/2020, 8:08 AM

That's not an Easter egg at all, it's just shoddy editing.

Props on slipping one past the audience though, I guess.

RolandD - 6/4/2020, 8:49 AM

Doesn’t an Easter egg have to be intentional by definition?

RolandD - 6/4/2020, 8:52 AM

Fan favorite mutant. Maybe in the comics. In the movies, she had none of Rogue’s personality/character. I’ve no doubt Paquin could have played her that way. Fox-Men, you won’t be missed.

MosquitoFarmer - 6/4/2020, 9:09 AM

If the sentence works with or without the common and still expresses what you intended to say, ain't nothing but a thing.

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