More X-Men: Apocalypse Details Revealed

Director Bryan Singer and producer Simon Kinberg recently sat down with the folks at EW to talk about all things X-Men including the next movie to be released after Days of Future Past. The next movie is titled "X-Men: Apocalypse" and is slated for a May 27, 2016 release. The movie is being developed by Bryan Singer and producer/writer Simon Kinberg as well as X2 writers Dan Harris and Michael Dougherty. The story is said to be loosely based on the 1990 comic storyline “Age of Apocalypse,” which features an alternate universe where the ancient and powerful mutant known as Apocalypse rules the world.

Singer tells EW, “The movie won’t necessarily create an alternate universe, but there may be some swapping things that I’m playing with." Kinberg goes on to say, “From a visual standpoint it actually may be a bigger movie than Days of Future Past because there’ll be disaster movie imagery, like the title would imply.”

Days of Future Past which opens next month on May 23 will lay some groundwork for Apocalypse but there won't be a direct lead-in. Singer says, “You won’t feel at the end of the movie that it set up Apocalypse. What it does is it sets up possibilities. But what we’ll discover in Apocalypse is that events in this movie made that happen.” He continues by saying, “Apocalypse deals with ancient mutancy. What would humans have thought mutants were? What would mutants think humans were? You’re dealing with gods and things like that. And what if one survived and what if that found its way into our world?”

The movie will focus on Charles (James McAvoy), Erik (Michael Fassbender), Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence), and Hank (Nicholas Hoult) who are all already on board and he hopes to also include Gambit and Nightcrawler. The movie will take place in the 80's time period so expect to see familiar characters at a younger age.