Collider recently
caught up with screenwriter and producer Simon Kinberg to talk about the upcoming
home release of X-Men: Days of Future Past, and its follow-up X-Men: Apocalypse.
In the interview Kinberg explained how Apocalypse will be the closing of an arc
that began in First Class, and the relationship between Eric and Charles, and
Mystique and Beast.
“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.”
While not
going into any details in part because the script is still being developed,
Kinberg did seem to imply that Mystique will have a bigger personal arc in the
upcoming film.
“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.”
The
screenwriter goes on to talk about how fun it has been to write with the 80's
has a background for the characters.
“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.”
Finally
and once again because the script isn't finished, Kinberg did reveal that the budget
for Apocalypse should reflect the studio's confidence in the team that gave
them a $746 million box-office hit with Days of Future Past.
“There
are some very big set pieces. I don’t know what the budget’s gonna be
because we’re still a ways away from budgeting the film, but I can say that Fox
has a lot of creative confidence in the team that made Days of Future Past—myself, Bryan,
Lauren Shuler Donner, Hutch Parker. All of those people are coming back
so in terms of a sandbox they’re definitely giving us a lot of room to play
creatively and take chances the way that we took some chances on Days of Future Past, and do some
radical things just as I think we did some radical things in Days of Future Past.”
X-Men:
Apocalypse hits theaters on May 27, 2016.
Source -
Collider
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