'X-Men: Apocalypse' News: Writer-Producer Teases 'Biggest X-Men Film' Ever
"X-Men: Apocalypse," the sequel to 2014's "X-Men: Days of Future Past," will introduce one of the most powerful X-Men adversaries of all time and will be the biggest film in the "X-Men" film series, its producer, Simon Kinberg, has said.
Over the weekend, Fox released a video of a fan Q&A with Kinberg and in it, the writer-producer revealed, "I think in some ways it's the biggest 'X-Men' film we've ever done."
"We've never done one of these movies where the whole world — there's like an extinction-level threat to the world," he explained. "The whole world's at stake."
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The film will feature a new villain in the form of En Sabah Nur/Apocalypse, played by Oscar Isaac, who starred in the recently released blockbuster hit "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" as Poe Dameron, an X-wing pilot. Apocalypse is, as Kinberg revealed in the Q&A, "way more powerful than any of the characters we've ever seen in the franchise." As the producer explained, unlike other powerful mutants like Magneto and Sebastian Shaw, Apocalypse will possess not just one power, but many.
"X-Men: Apocalypse," the ninth film in the series, is also big in the sense that it follows a major rearrangement of the film series' storyline. "We did something kind of radical and crazy in 'Days of Future Past' where we created a new timeline," Kinberg said. That film, in which Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) travels back in time to save mankind, put an end to the timeline followed by previous "X-Men" films and opened the stage for a whole new "X-Men" history.
According to the "X-Men: Apocalypse" producer, "Now that we've created that history, we take that to be canon." He also said that the new "X-Men" history is taken as "law" and that they will continue to tell the story of the X-Men with the knowledge that its ultimate destination is "the little glimpse into the Xavier mansion" shown at the end of the future part in "X-Men: Days of Future Past."
"X-Men: Apocalypse" lands in theaters on May 27.
Watch the full video from Fox below.
