Cameras will roll on the new X-Men film next year
Canadian newspaper Journal De Montreal has confirmed that X-Men: Apocalypse will begin filming in the beautiful city of Montreal in April 2015. Construction of the movie's sets will start at the end of this year at Mel's Studio, where a great deal of this past summer's X-Men: Days of Future Past was shot.
Director Bryan Singer is expected to return, working from a script developed by Simon Kinberg, Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris. Also likely to come back are Hugh Jackman (Wolverine), Michael Fassbender (Magneto), James McAvoy (Professor Xavier), Jennifer Lawrence (Mystique) and Nicholas Hoult (Beast). It is not clear whether other additional members of either generation of X-Men -- the First Class crew or the "originals" -- will show up this time around. Also still a mystery is who will play the title villain, the ancient, all-powerful mutant we glimpsed in a post-credits scene at the end of X-Men: Days of Future Past.
X-Men: Apocalypse has a May 27, 2016 release date, which gives Singer and his production team a little over a year to complete the movie -- it's a tight schedule, but for some reason the X-Men franchise seems to thrive on this (hell, Matthew Vaughn made First Class in 10 months).
The movie will also be the third major superhero film to come out in 2016, following Batman v Superman and Captain America 3, but Fox must be feeling pretty confident coming off Days of Future Past's glittering $745 million worldwide gross. Will Apocalypse continue the high quality X-Men franchise resuscitation that started with First Class and continued with Days of Future Past? Stay tuned.
(via Slashfilm)
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