X-Men Apocalypse And Next Wolverine Will Probably Be Shoot Back-To-Back

While promoting X-Men: Days of Future Past, star Hugh Jackman and producers Lauren Shuler Donner and Hutch Parker, spoke with Collider about the next installment in the franchise, X-Men: Apocalypse and the next Wolverine standalone movie.

When talking to Jackman, Steve over at Collider asked if shooting the next Wolverine and X-Men movies back-to-back was something that he thought was possible.

One of the things people don’t realize is that you went from shooting The Wolverine to this…

HUGH JACKMAN: I did Prisoners in between.

But it was pretty close.

JACKMAN: Pretty close.  It was about four months in between.

Is that something you’d want to do in the future, let’s say for X-Men: Apocalypse and another Wolverine sequel?  Or is that something where you think that’s too much?

JACKMAN: No, in a weird way that has crossed my mind if that’s the way things play out, because physically, even though I was complaining about it because I found out about [X-Men: Days of Future Past] a month before I finished The Wolverine, so I was already planning on my cheat meals.  It’s much easier because it’s tough to get there, physically, but once you’re there, it’s easier to maintain it.

Apparently shooting both films in sequence is something that the producers have already talked about, but they still don't know which movie will be shot first.

It seemed what [Jackman] was saying to me was that in an ideal world, X-Men: Apocalypse and another Wolverine solo movie would be, in an ideal world, filmed very close together to keep his physique.  So are you guys planning to film them that way?

LAUREN SHULER DONNER: We’re trying

HUTCHER PARKER: We are.

DONNER: We’re absolutely trying, yes.

Is there any target for when you’re going to film Apocalypse or the next Wolverine?

DONNER: Well, we announced Apocalypse to come out in 2016, so that means we have to shoot next summer.  And then we’d have to shoot our new Wolverine movie either before or after that.  I think after because it will come out after.

PARKER: And as much as you have an ambition for these things, it is, as you said about Hugh, getting a script that everybody feels is ready and right.  Because that is the foundation on which everything is built.  So I think the goal will be Apocalypse for 2016, which means at the latest [filming begins] in summer 2015, and then the same thing with Wolverine, either before or after, but based on the script.

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