X-MEN: APOCALYPSE Will Conclude the 'First Class' Trilogy



It's known that X-Men: Apocalypse will come out in May 2016 and it'll be helmed by director Bryan Singer. It is also known it will be set in the 80s and if Cyclops, Jean Grey and Storm are in it then they will be recast with younger actors.

The time traveling events of X-Men Days of Future Past may have erased things that happened in X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine but it also unleashed something worse which is why Apocalypse is coming. Or at least that's what's been hinted by those who are developing X-Men: Apocalypse.

Speaking with Yahoo! Movies U.K., writer and producer Simon Kinberg talked about the next X-Men movie and confirmed that it'll end the 'First Class' trilogy of films. Here's some tidbits from his interview:

On X-Men: Apocalypse finishing the 'First Class' trilogy.

“The thrust of ‘Apocalypse’ is really to complete the trilogy we began with ‘First Class’ - to complete the stories of young Raven, young Hank, younger Charles and Erik. And complete this trilogy of four people who began the films sort of disparate and in different worlds…[and who] we’ve followed through the span of decades. So that’ll be the thrust. There will be familiar characters and new characters that we haven’t seen…ever…but it’ll be the completion of what we began in ‘First Class’.”

On recasting Cyclops, Jean and Storm.
“If we included some of the original X-Men, like Storm, Jean, Scott and others in ‘Apocalypse’, yeah we would have to recast them because ‘Apocalypse’ takes place a good 20 years before ‘X1’which now insanely is 10-15 years ago. It would be very hard to do. Halle [Berry], Famke [Janssen] and James [Marsden] have done such a wonderful job bringing those characters to life and have been so identified with the parts. It would be a tall task, but I also would’ve said before ‘First Class’ that there was no way we’d find actors to stand alongside Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, and we did with Michael [Fassbender] and James [McAvoy]. Are we going to have to recast? If some of characters are in the movie, we would. But we shall wait and see.

On why fans won’t see Kitty Pryde or Bishop in X-Men: Apocalypse.
‘Apocalypse’ really follows the stories of the ‘First Class’ mutants, so in future X-Men films, perhaps, but in ‘Apocalypse’, it’ll really be the younger generations.

On X-Men: Apocalypse being the biggest X-Men film so far.
“The ‘Apocalypse’ story is a bigger film in scope or scale and a more powerful villain than we have ever seen in these films before.”

X-Men: Apocalypse releases in theaters on May 27, 2016.



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