We’ve seen the Days of Future Past but what about the near future for the cinematic X-Men?
Producer Simon Kinberg is enjoying the blockbuster success of The Martian now an Star Wars: The Force Awakens on the horizon while working a series of X-Men movies. Three X-films are coming out in 2016.
X-Men: Apocalypse is the third film with the First Class cast. From the 1960’s to the 70’s and the 80’s – we’ve seen the cinematic back story of the mutant heroes and villains but is this the big finish?
“It delivers on the dramatic story and emotion of the last two movies. It feels like the culmination of the four main characters really — (James) McAvoy, (Michael)Fassbender, Nic Hoult, and Jen (Lawrence). And it’s a bigger movie in both physical scale and I would say emotional stakes too because it is the culmination of this mini trilogy of stories.” Kinberg told Collider.
But what’s next for Fox’s X-Men film franchise?
“We want to keep making them. Obviously, part of what we’re doing now is stand-alone movies with new characters. So we have the Deadpool movie [Feb. 12], we’re doing a Gambit movie [seeking a director]. We’re doing another Wolverine. And then we have the mainline X-Men movies with Professor X, Magneto, Mystique, Beast that we started with First Class, Days of Future Past, Apocalypse. I would love to keep making movies with that cast. It’s almost like the way the Star Wars movies now are. The Episodes are the mainline movies, and then you have the stand-alone movies. The X-Men flagship is [Michael] Fassbender, [James] McAvoy, Jen [Lawrence] and Nick Hoult, and then we have the stand-alone movies.” Kinberg told The Hollywood Reporter.
Kinberg said the actors were not signed for another film after next year’s team X-film.
X-Men: Apocalypse opens May, 2016 with Bryan Singer back as director.
Josh Boone has completed a script for a possible New Mutants spinoff.
By Editor