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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

"X-Men: Days Of Future Past" - 'Sentinels' and 'Bolivar Trask'



Sneak Peek actor Peter Dinklage ("Game Of Thrones") as 'Bolivar Trask' creator of the robotic 'Sentinels', on the Montreal set of "X-Men: Days Of Future Past".


The 3D Marvel Comics adaptation is directed by Bryan Singer ("Superman Returns").


Created by writer Stan Lee and illustrator/co-writer Jack Kirby, 'Bolivar Trask' debuted in Marvel Comics' "Uncanny X-Men" #14 (November 1965):


"...'Bolivar Trask' was an anthropologist who saw the rise of 'mutants' as a threat to humanity. 


"Bolivar decides mankind has to fight back against the mutants and develops robotic guardians, known as the 'Sentinels', with  'Professor Charles Xavier' inviting Trask for a public debate on human/mutant relations.



"Xavier's arguments that mutants were just like humans did not convince Trask and he reveals his 'Sentinels'.


"But Trask and his scientists created a too adaptive, open-ended tactical/strategic programming for the robots and as a result the Sentinels turn against him, claiming they are superior to humans. 


"The Sentinels left with Trask and brought him to his first creation, the 'Master Mold', who orders him to construct more Sentinels. To stop the Sentinels, Xavier summons his 'X-Men'..." 


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