X-MEN: APOCALYPSE To Focus More on MYSTIQUE as Well as Her Relationship With BEAST



Next spring director Bryan Singer will reportedly take his mutants back to Montreal to start filming X-Men: Apocalypse. Writer and producer Simon Kinberg recently said the film will be the closure of the 'First Class Trilogy' but he also sat down with Collider.com and spoke a bit more about the next big X-Men movie.

"We’re having a lot of fun with the idea of the 80s. It’s a decade that Bryan and I both grew up in and so the music, the style, the aesthetic, the legacy of 80s movies is something we’re really having fun with. 
"I will say that [X-Men: Apocalypse] is definitely the close of a trilogy for those First Class characters, which isn’t to say we won’t see them in future movies, hopefully we will, but it’s a completion of an arc for them. I think that the friendship between Erik and Charles, which has always been so integral to the franchise, is something we’re continuing to explore and hopefully deepen with Apocalypse. And the relationship between Beast and Mystique is a really interesting one that we didn’t have a lot of time to explore in Days of Future Past, so we’ll have an opportunity to do more of that in Apocalypse."

Kinberg then elaborated on Mystique's seemingly larger role in X-Men: Apocalypse.

"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."

X-Men Days of Future Past is available for digital HD download now and will hit store shelves on October 14. X-Men: Apocalypse releases in theaters on May 27, 2016.