Juggernaut’s X-Men: Days Of Future Past Role Revealed

It looks as though Juggernaut almost played a vital role in ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’… but was soon replaced by Quicksilver. But what would his scenes have been?

Although Quicksilver’s super-speed was eventually used to spring Magneto out of jail in ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’, the original idea was very, very different. In fact, it was supposed to utilise an entirely different character – Juggernaut.

But now director Matthew Vaughn reveals what he would have done with the scene… and we’re kinda glad he didn’t get the chance.

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During an appearance on the Empire Podcast, the would-be ‘X-Men’ director revealed his plans for breaking Magneto out of prison… and they’re not nearly as good as what we finally saw on screen.

“I had Juggernaut being thrown out of a plane at 20,000 feet,” he revealed, “and using his head to go down a hole to get to the bottom of [The White House].”

Of course, Juggernaut’s role in the action eventually went to Evan Peters’ Quicksilver, who managed to negotiate a much more subtle way into Magneto’s prison cell. And let’s face it – the slow-mo scenes were just way cooler.

“I had Beast saying, ‘I have a plan,’ and [Juggernaut] replying, ‘What’s the plan? What’s the plan?’, and they go higher and higher and Beast was going to go, ‘This is it!’ and chuck him out the window. Then he goes smashing through [The White House] with this and Magneto goes, ‘Who the fuck are you?’”

Obviously, the scenes we ended up with were infinitely better, and Vaughn admits that Quicksilver’s jailbreak was “the best scene in the movie”. “I would have made the movie worse,” he laughed. “The Quicksilver one was better.”

Whether or not Juggernaut will eventually return to the ‘X-Men’ franchise remains to be seen… but with Vinny Jones as the last person to play him on the big screen, I can’t help thinking he’s perhaps owed a reboot.

But thankfully, that wasn’t in ‘Days of Future Past’.

‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ heads to cinemas on 19 May 2016.

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