X-Men: Apocalypse is coming out in a couple of weeks, but like always we’re all obsessed with “what’s next” way more than “what’s here.” With that in mind, there’s been a big question about when the follow up to Apocalypse will be set. Well, since First Class was set in the 1960s, Days of Future Past was half-set in the 1970s, and Apocalypse is set in the 1980s — you wouldn’t be wrong if you guessed that the untitled follow up will be set in the 1990s.

Simon Kinberg has confirmed the movie (expected in 2018) will be set in the decade, and honestly I’m a bit worried. I mean, besides the fact that 37 year old James McAvoy is better cast to play 70s-80s Patrick Stewart than 90s Stewart, it also means they’re encroaching on 2000’s X-Men. While the new movies may be in a new continuity… people still age into people, right?

Honestly, I think they should have just stuck to the 1980s, and this sounds like a terrible idea.

Via ComingSoon.net

Hey, remember how Fox once had a roadmap for its Marvel movies? Then remember how Fantastic Four was a complete bomb, and how Deadpool and Gambit got shoved into the schedule? I mean, the studio is (on the whole) doing fine with Marvel movies, but that plan they came out with seems to have been tossed out the window.

That’s why it should come as no surprise that Fox has added a new X-Men film to the schedule.

Details are scarce, but we know Bryan Singer will return to direct the film, and it will film in Montreal. It’s expected to go into principal photography in 2017, with a Summer 2018 release date.

Singer is a controversial director, with some rather awful allegations that have been made about him. All of this is also assuming X-Men: Apocalypse does well… which it probably will. Let’s not kid ourselves here, Singer’s a white guy, and Days of Future Past did just fine in the direct wake of this stuff coming out.

So, yeah.

Via Screenrant