THE X-MEN APOCALYPSE AND BEYOND
X-Men: Days for Future Past releases on May
23 and yet all we have seen from the film was that little teaser trailer a few
months ago. We expect to see a full trailer pretty soon, but in the mean time
it would seem that Bryan Singer is already looking to the future or should I
say the past for the next instalment, X-Men: Apocalypse
“We’re currently breaking the story,” said
Bryan Singer speaking with TotalFilm. “We’re
almost ready to go. Dan Harris, Michael Dougherty (X-Men 2) and Simon Kinberg
(X-Men: Last Stand and Days of Future Past) are in the office across the street
from me, working on story stuff right now. It’s great to have Dan and Michael
back.”
Singer then continued saying, “We’re going
to deal with 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… 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!”
The director then went on to say that there
quite a few more stories that he would like to tell beyond Apocalypse and that
the idea of looking into the past of the original X-Men intrigued him:
“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.”
So this goes without saying that X-Men:
Apocalypse might be featuring a younger yet familiar popular line up of the
X-Men we come to love. Speaking of which, many fans have been calling for the
Academy Award Winner, Lupita Nyong’o, to play the part of Storm in Apocalypse
or a future instalment taking over the roll from Halle Berry.
Halle Berry’s name has been popping up in
the rumour mill of late in regard to her role in Days of Future Past. If the
rumour mill is to be believed then Berry might only be popping in the film for
a cameo with her character only having one line, as most of her scenes have ended
up on the cutting room floor. This is just a rumour but it was reported by NY
Daily News however, SuperHeroHype have contacted their sources and have refuted
these claims. So take it however, you will, all I want to see is Lupita as the
next young, badass AFRICAN Storm.
We also got some Wolverine news! Director
James Mangold who directed The Wolverine, a film that I truly love, has stated
that he will be directing the next instalment in Logans solo adventures, but
that it will only come after Apocalypse. X-Men: Apocalypse will be releasing in
2016, meaning that Wolverine 2 or 3 depending on how you counting (I just
ignored origins), the next Wolverine film will possibly only arrive in 2017 or
2018.
Let me know what you think about what Bryan
Singer has said about Apocalypse, Lupita as Storm, and Wolverine most likely
being released by the time Hugh Jackman hits 50.
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