X-Men: Days of Future Past cleansed the X-Men
franchise timeline in such a way that we can no longer predict how things will unravel
in movies to come, or can we?
Erasing certain X-Men, X2, and X-Men: The Last Stand elements
from the timeline provided Bryan Singer and Simon Kinberg with the opportunity to
continue making what are essentially prequels, which conventionally have a
fixed ending, while keeping the future open to new things.
"It’s not leading necessarily toward exactly
where we found Patrick
Stewart and the X-Men at the beginning of X-Men 1. There are some things that lead in that general
direction that was part of the philosophy we had at the end of Days of Future Past is that you can’t fully change
the course or current of the river, but you can just divert it a little bit,
and we diverted it a little bit. So some things will be surprises; people could
die that were alive in X-Men 1, 2 and 3, or
people could survive that died during 1, 2 and 3."
Singer picked up on Kinberg's river analogy and
explained how it was pivotal to create a new timeline.
"What happens when you use Days of Future Past to
erase movies like X1, 2 and 3, yes you can erase those events
that occurred, but I also was very adamant about having what we call ‘The Tivo
Scene.’ The scene in that room with all the video cameras in Days of Future Past,
I call it the Tivo scene. ‘I developed this piece of technology that records
television;’ the point is time’s immutability. The idea that time is like a
river. You can splash it and mess it up and throw rocks in it and shatter it
but it eventually kind of coalesces and this is, again, quantum physics theory.
It’s all based in quantum physics."
The director also says that there will be a degree of
uncertainty regarding the young versions of older characters like for instances
Cyclops.
"So what I’m
doing with these in-betweenqueels is playing with time’s immutability and the
prequel concept, meaning that yes we erased those storylines and anything can
happen. That means the audience goes into the movie thinking that anything can
happen. I mean anything, anyone could die. Any possibility could occur, but
characters are still moving towards their immutable place. Jean and Scott, are
they meant to be together? Is Scott, this guy who hates
schools and hates authority, destined to become a leader? You don’t
know. Is Jean ever going to discover the full potential of her power? You don’t
know, but we move in those directions character-wise but then we have the
freedom story-wise to do whatever the fuck we want because we erased those
three movies."
The "immutable
place" Singer is talking about is the "New Future" scene we saw
at the very end of X-Men: Days of Future Past where deceased characters were
shown to be alive, however Singer cautions that although that moment in time is
where these new characters are heading, the future isn't written in stone and
anything can happen to them.
"Time can always be fucked with, we’ve now
learned that. We’ve now learned that once you alter time that could be the
future, but I don’t believe if you look at all the X-Men movies and Days of Future Past,
I don’t believe that’s definitive.
I’ll kill any of those characters any day I want.
They’re all fair game. Anything can happen. When two things are happening
simultaneously in quantum physics it’s what’s called the Super Position and
when the Observer finally observes the outcome that’s called the ‘Collapsing of
the Super Position’ which is what happened when Wolverine woke up and saw all
the happiness. So yes that is the outcome we hope for, that is the outcome we
aspire to, and that’s the outcome we are moving towards, but we saw in Days of Future Past another
dark world. What says that can’t happen again? What says the awakening of a
being that has such power and can acquire the power to destabilize that? So
anything is possible. That’s what we’d like to think happens, that’s what Simon
would like to think is a good outcome, but to me it’s fair game."
It's good to hear
that Kinberg and Singer are keeping the new X-Men timeline open to new possibilities
and changes, thus fixing the Achilles heel of prequels, knowing how it all ends,
which removes tension and drama from the movie.
X-Men: Apocalypse
hits theaters on May 27.
Source - Collider
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