Patrick Stewart, taking a break from Shakespearian acting and animated voice work, and Ian McKellen, currently to be seen in The Hobbit, will return for X-Men: Days of Future Past, director Bryan Singer confirmed via Twitter Tuesday. For more details see here.
I am still working out the implications for Kevin Bacon relationship charts of having Gandalf battle Captain Kirk’s successor in a joint project between the director of the last Superman movie, Marvel, and the new owners of the Star Wars franchise. The geek quotient of these films must be accelerating faster than a photon.