14 DAY TRIAL // Talk about having lots of faith in a project: even though the “X-Men” sequel isn’t out in theaters yet, 20th Century Fox is already working on the threequel, which will hit theaters in 2016. Even better, this isn’t just a rumor either, since director Bryan Singer has already confirmed it.
In a short but, even so, extremely revealing tweet of a few hours ago, Singer says, “#Xmen #Apocalypse 2016!” The blogosphere has been in a frenzy ever since.
So, while “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” the sequel to “X-Men: First Class,” which effectively rebooted the “X-Men” franchise and turned it into a juggernaut once more, doesn’t drop in theaters until May 23, 2014, the studio is already, quite boldly so, announcing the next film.
This in itself speaks volumes of the kind of confidence studio bosses have in the “X-Men” franchise and, when you consider that it’s already made more than $2 billion (€1.46 billion) at the box office, the Wolverine movies included, it totally makes sense.
The Wrap claims to have it on good authority that a more exact release date is May 27, 2016, and offers a bit more details on what fans should expect from it.
“Apocalypse is an ancient mutant who appears in the Marvel comics. In 2008, the character was ranked #3 at Marvel.com on the site’s list of Top 10 X-Men villains, and the following year, IGN ranked Apocalypse as the 24th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time,” the e-zine says.
Meanwhile, as the trailer below will show, “Days of Future Past” sees Wolverine travel back in time to try and save the world by preventing something to happen. This allows the film to bring together the actors who played the mutants in “First Class” but also those who starred as the older versions of the mutants in the first three “X-Men” movies.
Even listing the names of the main cast would take what would feel like an eternity, so we’ll just let the trailer below do that for us.
