Days of Future Past director Bryan Singer is both cryptic while dropping a bomb-shell on his twitter feed.
This seems to say that the sequel to DOFP will be out in 2016 and involve the classic villain: Apocalypse.
It makes a lot of sense to bring in this big baddy, and it looks like they had already decided to do it from the beginning because:
- In the DOFP trailer the temple they go too may be part of Apocalypse’s cult
- They brought Blink into the franchise when they didn’t really have to and she’s a descendant of Apocalypse.
- Post-Apocalyptic (pardon the pun) is really big right now, everyone is using that dystopian feel.
- Age of Apocalypse was one of the biggest non-616 universes in the comics and was fairly well received.
- 2016 is also Avengers 2 and if they want to compete then they need to bring in a heavy-hitter.
The problem though with him announcing this now is… well… DOFP hasn’t even come out and he pretty much gives away the Easter-egg reveal (oh no, they saved themselves from Trask but woke up Apocalypse?!) Is he throwing this out there so in 2015 when he starts production people won’t accuse him of ripping off whatever Avengers 2 is doing ala Quicksilver? Unless Apocalypse doesn’t actually mean the person but just the event and Singer is trolling us (also possible).
An even bigger question is who is going to be fighting him? I would imagine they would want to keep on with the First Class cast unless he managed to talk the Classic cast back to do another picture. Either way, how is this going to fit into the continuity of the films? How much of a reboot will DOFP be and effect the universe? Will this tie into the X-Force film at all?
So many questions!!
And we’ll just have to wait and see…
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