It looks like X-Men fans are getting an early Christmas present. Bryan Singer, director of the first two X-Men films and the much anticipated X-Men: Days of Future Past, took to twitter yesterday to announce plans for X-Men: Apocalypse to be released in 2016.
This comes as a bit of a surprise, as Future Past doesn’t even hit theaters until next May. The franchise was thought to end when the originally trilogy came to a close back in 2006 with the much hated (and Bryan Singer-less) X-Men: The Last Stand.
The original X-Men movie was released in 2000, nearly fourteen years ago, and it appears the franchise is still going strong. A sequel to the original was released in 2003, acting as a prequel to The Last Stand. Hugh Jackman returned to play Wolverine in the 2009 film X-Men Origins: Wolverine. He would again return to the franchise this past summer in The Wolverine. Meanwhile, an origins story of the original X-Men characters, set in the 1960s, X-Men: First Class, was released in 2011. Continue reading
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