Simon Kinberg discusses X-Men Apocalypse challenges

X-Men: Days of Future Past hits U.S. theaters on May 23, but fans are already anticipating the sequel, X-Men: Apocalypse, scheduled for release on May 27, 2016. This year's movie combines the past and present incarnations of mutants, while the sequel will pit them against the ancient and deadly mutant known as Apocalypse.

Writer and producer Simon Kinberg spoke to Superhero Hype and discussed the challenges with bringing the iconic and powerful villain to life:

"We want to tell the Apocalypse story and there's massive scale and scope to telling that story. There's going to be set pieces that I suspect are going to be bigger than anything we've ever done in an X-Men movie before and he's a great character. The biggest and funnest challenge of the Apocalypse movie to me is his character. How do you create a new villain for the X-Men world that is as good as any villain that's come before, is compelling philosophically as Magneto, not just in his physical powers, but in his philosophical depth. Apocalypse is going to be a fun movie to write and make."

Director Bryan Singer spoke to SciFi Now and talked about his focus for Apocalypse:

"My next goal is how did the X-Men come together? That story hasn't been told yet, so [Days of Future Past] is the inbetweenquel. It's in between the birth of that relationship with Charles and Erik and the formation of the X-Men."

SciFi Now asked if this time period would allow Cyclops, Jean Grey (both of whom died in X-Men: The Last Stand) and Storm to return in younger incarnations.

"Yeah, exactly," the director replied.

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