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X-Men: Days Of Future Past first look at the script

What can Charles Darwin tell us about the X-Men: First Class sequel?

X-Men Days Of Future Past
X-Men Days Of Future Past
The frontispiece of the X-Men: Days Of Future Past script

X-Men: Days Of Future Past director Bryan Singer posted a picture of the script on Twitter, and adorned on the front cover is a quote from naturalist Charles Darwin’s The Origin Of The Species.

“As new species are formed through natural evolution, others will become rarer and rarer, and finally extinct. The forms which stand in closest competition with those undergoing modification and improvement will naturally suffer most.”

Is this the movie’s opening quote? And is it anything more meaningful than a neat lampshading of the recurring themes within the X-Men universe? We’ll find out in 2014…