Producer Simon Kinberg says X-Men: Apocalypse closes the new trilogy that began with First Class.
The new film will star the First Class cast along with Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) and new actors playing younger versions of Cyclops, Storm and Jean Grey.
The fractured relationship of Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) and Beast (Nicholas Hoult) will be explored in the sequel and her connections to both sides of the war for mutants:
“Part of what’s really interesting about Mystique’s character is that she is, in some ways, the child of both Erik and Charles. She grew up with Charles and then she sort of became a woman with Erik, so her being the cross-pollination, if you will, of those two philosophies and those two men is something we can explore in the movie too,” Kinberg told Collider.
Producers have previously said they might explore a spinoff starring Lawrence as Mystique.
X-Men: Apocalypse arrives May 27, 2016.
X-Men: Days of Future Past arrives October 14, 2014.
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