'X-Men: Apocalypse' will have Bryan Singer directing & will feature 'First Class' cast members including Jennifer Lawrence, James McAvoy and Nicholas Hoult

After announcing the X-Men: Days of Future Past sequel on his Twitter account, this week we can confirm that Bryan Singer will return to direct this movie, X-Men: Apocalypse. Not only will Singer be returning, but also this new film will feature the return of the cast from First Class. This mean we'll be seeing Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy and more returning as our favorite comic book characters once again.

This cast confirmation means that we won't be seeing the cast from the original trilogy in this new film, which kind of makes sense considering those actors have aged since the last film. Now we can allow for the younger cast to develop these characters and maybe even explore more movie ideas in the future?

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Singer will indeed be behind the camera on the new film, making this the director's first back-to-back foray into the X-Men world since he kicked off the franchise with X-Men (in 2000) and X2 (in 2003). But though Days of Future Past weaves together the veteran X-Men cast (including Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, and Halle Berry) and the younger actors introduced in X-Men: First Class (James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, and Jennifer Lawrence), and Apocalypse will be a direct sequel set up in Days of Future Past's closing moments, the new film is intended to focus strictly on the younger McAvoy-Fassbender cast. The movie suggests that though First Class was the franchise's lowest earner when it bowed in 2011, Fox has enough confidence that the star-packed Days of Future Past will give the new cast enough momentum to stand on its own. In any case, Fox is doubling down hard on the hand it's playing withDays of Future Past, and with good reason: After Avatar, it's the second-most expensive film the studio has ever made.