X-Men: Days of Future Past Trailer Sets Up Time Travel Shenanigans

20th Century Fox has released an official trailer for X-Men: Days of Future Past that sets up the film’s premise of characters from the original X-Men film trilogy joining forces with their younger selves introduced in X-Men: First Class. The film stars Patrick Stewart as old Charles Xavier, James McAvoy as his younger counterpart, Ian McKellen as older Magneto, Michael Fassbender as young Magneto, Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, and Peter Dinklage as Bolivar Trask, a military scientist who creates the Sentinels. X-Men: Days of Future Past will release in theaters on May 23, 2014.

The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods in X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST. The beloved characters from the original “X-Men” film trilogy join forces with their younger selves from “X-Men: First Class,” in an epic battle that must change the past — to save our future.