"X2: X-Men United" and "Superman Returns" screenwriters Mike Dougherty and Dan Harris as well as Simon Kinberg are writing the script for "Apocalypse" .
The younger actors introduced in "X-Men: First Class" James McAvoy (Professor X), Michael Fassbender (Magneto) Jennifer Lawrence (Mystique), and Nicholas Hoult (Beast). Lucas Till (Alex “Havoc” Summers), etc. are contracted for three films and are locked in to return.
It is likely that Channing Tatum is set to play the X-Men's mutant Gambit
Because the film is a direct sequel to "Days of Future Past" it will focus strictly on the younger cast as they take on the comic's greatest villain Apocalypse.
Those of you who have not seen "Days" yet Beware SPOILERS AHEAD
Similar to the tease in The Avengers it's all about the introduction of an all-powerful villain the scene is set in ancient Egypt in a desert where a giant crowd chants 'En Sabah Nur' towards a robed figure on a hill with their arms raised.
He is a pale looking young man with blue lips and fiery eyes, and appears to be rapidly assembling the pyramids using only his mind. As the camera swirls around on him, off to his left sit a group of silhouettes - four horsemen.
The character is young, a lot younger than the far less human looking comic book version. Does that mean the version in the next film will also be a child? Producer Kinberg tells IGN:
"The post-credit sequence is a tease into what will be the Apocalypse movie. Now the Apocalypse you see – that young boy – may not be the actor who plays the character in our movie. It's a deep back story glimpse into the character, but our movie doesn't take place in ancient Egypt and will likely not star a young boy Apocalypse."
While speaking with the site, Kinberg also said that the next film will be in part inspired by 'end of the world' disaster epics like Roland Emmerich's "The Day After Tomorrow" and "'2012".
"The thing that we've spent the most time talking about is not just the visual execution of the character, which is its own challenge – creating a character that's the most powerful I think of any mutant villain that we've seen in the X-Men Movies so far. More powerful than Magneto. The kind of scope and scale we're talking about is like disaster movie, extinction level event. Sort of Roland Emmerich-style movie-making, which you've never seen in an X-Men movie, or any superhero movie, which I think is exciting. But we've also been talking about how to give him a real emotional and philosophical underpinning. So he's not just somebody who's out there destroying the world because he can. What he's doing is – in his mind – justified and validated by a real compelling, coherent philosophy. He tries to proselytize and convert people – maybe some of our most familiar characters – to come to his cause."
The film will hit theaters on May 27, 2016 opposite Alice in Wonderland 2
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