When I finished the Days of Future Past script with it ready to go I looked at it and said, ‘I really think it would be fun to cast Tom Hardy or someone as the young Wolverine and then bring it all together at the end.’
Fox read Days of Future Past and went ‘Oh, this is too good!
So you’d really get to know all of them, and my finale was gonna be Days of Future Past …
At the end of Days of Future Past, they basically rewrote their franchise’s history so that they could tell new stories with familiar characters.