‘X-Men Apocalypse’ Is An ’80s Period Piece, Will Feature Mass Destruction
X-Men Apocalypseis more than just that other 2016 Marvel superhero movie. The Fox sequel toX-Men: First Classand this summer’sX-Men: Days of Future Pasthas been quietly building momentum while DC and Marvelprepare for battle with their big filmsBatman vs. SupermanandCaptain America 3.X-Men: Apocalypsecomes out a few weeks after those two, on July 21, 2025.Bryan Singer, Dan Harris, Michael DoughertyandSimon Kinbergare all currently working on breaking down the story, which will probably deal with thesuper-evil mutant of the title.
In a new interview, Singer revealeda few more detailson the film, including the fact it’ll be an Eighties period piece, and the logical continuation of the Seventies look ofDays of Future Past, and that it will have “will more of the mass destruction thatX-Menfilms, to date, have not relied upon.” Read the quotes below.
Singer spoke toTotal Film(viaComic Book Movie) and said the following about the film:
We’re going to deal the the notion of ancient mutants – the fact they were born and existed thousands of years ago. But it’ll be a contemporary movie – well, it’ll take place in the ’80s… The ’80s is a period now – it’s hard for me to believe that! ‘Apocalypse’ will have more of the mass destruction that ‘X-Men’ films, to date, have not relied upon. There’s definitely now a character and a story that allow room for that kind of spectacle.
He was then asked to possibly comment on that aforementioned character who allowed for destruction:
I don’t want to get too specific, but we’ll introduce familiar characters in a younger time. That’ll be fun to show the audience. I call these movies in-between-quels. It’s a mind-fuck, sometimes, in terms of where things fall in the timeline!
And thoughApocalypsewon’t be released until 2016, Singer seems pretty committed to telling even moreX-Menstories beyond that.
Yeah, there actually are [more stories I want to tell]. It all stems back to when I did [the first] X-Men. You always want to know where a character’s going to go, what their future’s going be like. You can always sequelise. But on that film I also had actors asking ‘Who am I? Where did my character come from?’ So as a director you always need a backstory to give your actors. It may not be the right backstory, but it’s one you can give the actor to help them understand their character. These prequels are really exciting for me because they give me a chance to explore ideas I came up with more than a decade ago.
WithX-Men: Days of Future Pastquickly approaching (a new trailer is planned this month) we’ll surely be hearing much more about it’s already in development sequel,X-Men: Apocalypse, soon.
X-Men: Days of Future Pastopens May 23.X-Men Apocalypsecomes two years later.
