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12th Apr 2014

Director Bryan Singer Confirms Cast Returns for X-Men Apocalypse

Some of our favourite mutants will be returning for the next installment.

Una Kavanagh

Director Bryan Singer and producer Simon Kinberg have already been looking ahead to the next X-Men instalment of the Marvel franchise.

The duo are developing X-Men: Apocalypse which is slated for release on May 27th, 2016.

Though the details are a bit sketchy at the moment, Singer has said that the film will be “somewhat” based on the 1990 comic storyline Age of Apocalypse, which feature ancient villain Apocalypse.

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

“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” added Singer.

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?”

Actors that are all on board for X-Men: Apocalypse include Charles Xavier (James McAvoy), Magneto (Michael Fassbender), Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence), and Hank/Beast (Nicholas Hoult), but Singer said he’s also interested in bringing in other mutants from the 80s.

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