More X-Men Going Back to Future for Days of Future Past

Bryan Singer directing X-Men: Days of Future Past opened the door for his alumni to return. Why else would Sir Ian McKellen show up after the semi-atrocious, semi-poetic fate of Magneto in The Last Stand. Turning him "straight" with the Mutant Cure - the whole thing is one big gay parable. Notice he hasn't been back since.

More are returning as Singer tweeted to expect to see Anna Paquin, Shawn Ashmore and, the big surprise here, Ellen Page. Her casting was the big contribution by Brett Ratner - Kelsey Grammer and Vinnie Jones were Matthew Vaughn hires before he quit.

Didn't think we'd see Page return, this was pre-Juno and her initial contract undoubtedly expired in the seven years since. Figured they'd spin the Days of Future Past storyline (one of the X-Men psychically time-travels to the past to prevent an event leading to a mutant holocaust) and approximate it for Mystique instead. Jennifer Lawrence is hot, The Hunger Games is big and she’s about to win her Oscar for Silver Linings Playbook. I guess not.

This is going to be an over-stuffed roster. Would it be more appropriate to re-title this Giant Sized X-Men given the growing, and more to come, cast?