Tweet Impairment: Bryan Singer Posts Photo of X-Men: Days of Future Past With New Cast Members

You ever wake up on a Saturday morning, crippled from drink with the sense memories of about seven too many Jack Daniels-based drinks lingering in the back of your throat (along with a flavor that you can’t identify, but strongly suspect is gonorrhea)? And then your phone rings, and it’s a friend of yours saying, “Um, buddy? What exactly is this thing you went me a cell phone picture of? It’s a little blurry, but I figure it’s either a couple of sand dunes in the Saraha Desert, or else you’d better start rehearsing the speech you’re gonna give to your neighbors when the judge orders you to… inform them.”

Of course you have; if you were an upstanding citizen, you’d be getting your comics information from a more reputable source (read: almost anywhere else). And that means you understand the innate and insidious nature of Twitter. Just four years ago, the worst thing you could do with your cell phone camera was baffle a single person. Now, you can baffle the whole world at once!

Which is a long way to go to say that X-Men: Days of Future Past director Bryan Singer has been Tweeting again.

3 #Oscars, 6 #GoldenGlobes, 1 #BAFTA, 2 #Emmys, 2 #Tonys, 5 #Oliviers, 1 #Ceaser – Now let’s blow s**t up! #XMEN twitter.com/BryanSinger/st…

— Bryan Singer (@BryanSinger) March 15, 2013

(Editor’s Note: Depending on your browser, you might not see the image embedded in Singer’s Tweet, so here’s the image. Click to enlarge:)

Great. Bryan Singer Tweets a picture of a “Ceaser [sic] BAFTA” and gets the Geek Universe into an excited uproar. But I send one photo of a “Ramses BLUMPKIN” and suddenly I can only work at Hardees if I pass a polygraph test.

Okay, let’s be serious for a minute: sure, we recognize Patrick Stewart, Peter Dinklage, Hugh Jackman and Halle Berry, but there were a few pictures there I couldn’t identify. Thankfully, I am writing this on a device that also gives me access to the entirety of human knowledge (except for the mechanics behind the “Ramses Blumpkin”), I was able to determine that the woman toward the bottom right is Chinese actress Fan Bingbing (note to self: try cross referencing “Ramses Blumpkin” with “Fan Bingbing”), and that one of the dudes in that same are is Twilight actor Booboo Stewart (note to self: Add “Booboo Stewart” to the search), with the guy who played Colossus in X-Men: The Last Stand, Daniel Cudmore (note to self: Google whatever mental disorder that makes one think that everyone’s name sound like a perverse sex act) rounding it out.

So while we can pretty much be certain that this means Colossus will appear in X-Men: Days of Future Past, it doesn’t really tell us much else, except for the fact that Singer clearly has a handle on the source material, because this picture bears a pretty solid resemblance to the cover of Uncanny X-Men #141. And, in that same spirit, I think I speak for all comic fans when I say that I sincerely hope that Singer follows this up with a photo of Brett Ratner with a big old “SLAIN” stamped across the bottom.

Heh… “Lain…”

Christ, I need help.