A film based on Marvel Comics is X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Michael Fassbender . In 2011 , Fassbender debuted as the Marvel Comics antihero Magneto in X-Men : First Class , and went on to share the role with Ian McKellen in X-Men : Days of Future Past ( 2014 ) , and reprise it again in X-Men : Apocalypse ( 2016 ) . The X-Men are a fictional team of superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . X-Men : Days of Future Past is a 2014 American superhero film based on the fictional X-Men characters that appear in Marvel Comics . Thus Singer , who had directed the first two X-Men films , made his return as a director , and brought along most of the crew from those productions .