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New Details About 2016 Film X-Men: Apocalypse

Director Bryan Singer gives fans a look into the upcoming film.

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Some new details were released recently, from Entertainment Weekly, pertaining to the upcoming 2016 film: X-Men: Apocalypse. Although it isn't slated to come out until May 27th, 2016, Director Bryan Singer leaked a few pieces of info about this movie, mainly that it will be loosely based off the fan favorite story line "Age of Apocalypse."

In Age of Apocalypse, Charles Xavier is dead, by the hands of his own son, Legion, who went back in time to try and kill Magneto. Because of this action, Apocalypse has taken over the world, with villains like Holocaust (Apocalypse's son) and Mr Sinister standing beside him. The X-Men are led by Magneto and his wife Rogue. What AoA did well was shake up the Marvel Universe and help redefine some classic Marvel characters, in an alternate universe.

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However, Singer isn't looking to do that, per se:

“[The movie] won’t necessarily create an alternate universe, but there may be some swapping things that I’m playing with,”

Producer/Writer Simon Kinberg adds:

“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.”

What fans do know is that X-Men: Apocalypse will follow Charles, Erik, Mystique, and Hank, and all of those actors are already on board for the film from the deals they signed for X-Men: First Class. Singer says there will also be other characters this film will follow as well. He's interested in bringing in familiar characters from different ages and explore the 80s, so there's a good chance fans could see characters like Nightcrawler and Gambit.

Will the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past just be one big set-up then? Not exactly, as Singer states here:

“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... 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?”

X-Men: Apocalypse will hit theaters May 27th, 2016; however, X-Men: Days of Future Past will be in theaters on May 23rd, 2014.

Source: Entertainment Weekly

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give me Cyclops and Wolverine and i am set !

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So sick of Wolverine being at the center of everything

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@fallschirmjager said:

@jasonhawke said:

*yawn*

Time travel movies..... :(

ever seen Looper? there's potential for it to be good

"Potential"

And? Nothing in life is a sure thing.

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@jasonhawke said:

*yawn*

Time travel movies..... :(

ever seen Looper? there's potential for it to be good

"Potential"

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Okay.

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@dernman said:

@jonny_anonymous said:

More Cyclops please

As much as I think the movie universe shafted Cyclops. I'm not sure I want the actor who played him back.

C'mon, how does one not like Marsden?

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That's actually one of the few times I've liked him since my opinion of him changed.

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*yawn*

Time travel movies..... :(

ever seen Looper? there's potential for it to be good

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*yawn*


Time travel movies..... :(

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Please keep Blink

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@dernman said:

@jonny_anonymous said:

More Cyclops please

As much as I think the movie universe shafted Cyclops. I'm not sure I want the actor who played him back.

C'mon, how does one not like Marsden?

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Intriguing

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Do Apocalypse justice. If Gambit is in it, do him justice.

If these two conditions are met, I'm all in.

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80's mutants? Dazzler please?

This. All of it.

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Disaster movie? But I just want to see Apocalypse.

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Can't say I'm crash hot on Singer? I would have preferred some one else take the helm, but will wait and see.

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Reading these comments and knowing I'm not the only one who wants Cyclops back gives me hope. :')

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I feel like I'm missing out in not liking the X-Men films. There's always something going on with the franchise, but I just can't quite understand the appeal or interest. It's my loss, I guess.

I feel the same way. I've seen all of them except for The Wolverine, and I'm not really feeling DOFP. I don't know, just not made for me I suppose.

I hope it's good, and I hope it's fanbase is happy, but I am personally just not feeling the X-Men movies anymore.

If they rebooted and started from square one (but kept some of the casting decisions, I do like Hugh's Wolverine) maybe I'd feel differently.

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@jonny_rogers: I agree. I love the X-Men, but the movies don't appeal to me and I can't say why. I'd like to be excited about them but...I don't know. I think I love the comics and cartoons too much to like anything live-action lol

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As long as Hugh Jackman is in I'm in

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I always been wanting to see to the most feared x villians and those where Apolalypse and Mr.sinister and as the age of apocalypse coming to the big screen I for some time been imagining an awsome secret ending that I wish they would use to set up after days of future past. This secret ending would introduce the live action version of Mr.sinister first in a black cloak intererupting an archiolgical dig in egypt killing all the archeologists to discover what they where looking for which is what he is looking for and that is a tomb of apocalypse himself. Then finally Mr.sinister after being satifisied of his search pull his hood back smiling with his razor sharp teeth and the end and the fans would go heywire in a good way and me too. Or he is part of the archeological dig before he became a mutant and then he is the one to find apocalypse making him obessed with him which leads him to his path of villiany.

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Sounds like it may be set up the same way it was starting to be in Wolverine and The X-men.

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This has awesome written all over it. Apocalypse is one of the baddest MoFos in the Marvel Universe. He's terrorized the X-Men (and many others) for years. I hate when his name isn't mentioned in the same breath as Thanos, Galactus and even Magneto. (I'm sure someone will disagree, but it won't be the first time that's happened on this site! lol) I can't wait to see this!

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It seems to me, much like what we are seeing about "Days of Future Past", that they are going to use the title of "Age of Apocalypse", but not really try to follow what was an epic and great comic book story. It's like they have to shoehorn in the current "stars" of the X-films regardless of what the story should be about. I don't remember every single detail, but I know they will throw in a few mutants that weren't even in AoA while leaving out others. Mutants like Sunspot and Warpath were certainly NOT in DoFP (along with several others, while leaving out other mutants such as Angel and Nightcrawler).

I'll have to go into these movies viewing them as an "alternate universe", which they are, much like I watched "Smallville" in this light.

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Longshot please.

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I'm conflicted about X-Men films. There's a lot of X-Men characters I'd like to see in the films, but I'd prefer fewer characters and better characterization than a lot of characters without developing any/most of them. And for whatever reason I don't have much faith in Fox (I think Marvel would do a better job with the franchise, so wish the rights could revert back to Marvel) though there have only been a couple X-Men films I haven't enjoyed, and I really enjoyed First Class, so they might be heading in the right direction. Guess I'll have to wait for DOFP and more details on this.

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Nightcrawler and Gambit? Okay, that's definitely a good sign. Confirm that Cyclops won't get shafted and I'm on board.

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is wolverine in it?

Outside of the cap 3, I see the xmen franchise being the best superhero movies from this point forward. maybe if we can get a good flash movie there would be hope for justice league. I wish they were doing a superman supergirl teamup instead of batman. age of ultron has potential, but since they are ruining his origin im worried.

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Am I the only one who's willing to give Fox a chance?

Guess so.

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They should let Cyclops rot. He is a massive whiney douche that the public that don't read comics will find it almost impossible to like. Hugh's Wolverine is the lead character no matter what, why try to fight against it?

Until they reboot the whole thing and have no ties whatsoever to the original X films, they should not recast anyone.

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how about you bring back Cyclops, with a different actor, and have him lead the team?

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Age of Apocaypse Cyclops please

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Yeah I heard this song and dance about not rebooting stuff from DC and look at how that turned out. Now in THIS instance it would be in FOX's best interest to reboot. Seriously after X2 the X-Men movies have just gone downhill.

Agreed.

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Yeah I heard this song and dance about not rebooting stuff from DC and look at how that turned out. Now in THIS instance it would be in FOX's best interest to reboot. Seriously after X2 the X-Men movies have just gone downhill.

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@jonny_anonymous: If they did recast who would you like to see?

Hugh Jackman......just kidding. :p

Honestly I haven't given it much thought. I'm way too picky and usually get stuck in the looks/feel phase of picking before I can approach the acting ability phase.

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@dernman said:

@jonny_anonymous said:

@dernman said:

@jonny_anonymous said:

More Cyclops please

As much as I think the movie universe shafted Cyclops. I'm not sure I want the actor who played him back.

Well that actor honestly didn't get to do much for me to dislike him.

I've known the actor for a long time and seen him in almost everything he's been in. I actually use to be a fan but my opinion has become mixed over time. I just want more from Cyclops then what the actor could bring. Then again I've pretty much written off the X-Men films at this point so........

If they did recast who would you like to see?

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@dernman said:

@jonny_anonymous said:

More Cyclops please

As much as I think the movie universe shafted Cyclops. I'm not sure I want the actor who played him back.

Well that actor honestly didn't get to do much for me to dislike him.

I've known the actor for a long time and seen him in almost everything he's been in. I actually use to be a fan but my opinion has become mixed over time. I just want more from Cyclops then what the actor could bring. Then again I've pretty much written off the X-Men films at this point so........

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So they're killing off Xavier again? And

Cyclops better be in it.

This

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CYCLOPS.

CYKE.

SCOTT SUMMERS.

WE NEED CYCLOPS BACK DARNIT! I feel as if he and Jean will become part of the 4 Horsemen.

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@mrmazz: I feel the same way. The movies pale in comparison to the comic books and even the old cartoon to me.

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@dernman said:

@jonny_anonymous said:

More Cyclops please

As much as I think the movie universe shafted Cyclops. I'm not sure I want the actor who played him back.

Well that actor honestly didn't get to do much for me to dislike him.

Cyclops and Jean were shafted because they wouldn't come back for another movie. I think the guy who played Cyclops said he didn't want to do anymore and the girl who played Jean wanted more money. It's the same reason why the guy who played Nightcrawler didn't come back for the third movie.

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80's mutants? Dazzler please?

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