News on Anna Paquin’s Rogue Cut of Days of Future Past

Posted on the 04 April 2015 by Thevault @The_Vault

True Blood’s Anna Paquin had shot and completed her role in X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST only to have her entire sequence cut from the film. Then, we were promised a special “Rogue cut” of the film that would arrive on Blu-ray with the character’s small arc restored.

Now, news came out yesterday that the extended film had been submitted to the BBFC and was listed as having a running time of 142 minutes and 37 seconds, which is just over 11 minutes longer than the theatrical cut; however director Bryan Singer took to Twitter to clarify that the new cut will actually be a bit longer than that, he writes:

For the record the Rogue Cut of #Xmen #DOFP is more than 17 minutes longer than the original cut. And has a few little changes I made. :)

There’s no street date for the Blu-ray/DVD release at the moment but it’s expected to arrive sometime this summer.

Simon Kinberg on the cut scenes and Rogue:

It’s a big chunk, a substantial part of the movie. We want to give (fans) the fullest picture of the film — behind the camera, and in front of it…Every movie has scenes that are cut out, but not every movie has scenes cut out with such a beloved character. The Rogue subplot was originally there because I wanted a mission for the older Charles and Eric to do, something like Unforgiven – two last gunslingers, Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman – that kind of a mission for them. I just loved the idea of that. Nothing in the story necessitated that, but just for a lark, I thought it would be a cool thing to see, because we may never see it again.

See Anna in the video below:

Below are some screenshots of Anna from the video:


source: joblo.com