While Bryan Singer is still deep in the X-Men: Days of Future Past mode since there’s a ton to do before it debuts next year, he’s also getting things rolling a bit with the recently announced X-Men: Apocalypse feature. The latest tidbit once again comes from Twitter where he post up a message and image about working with Days of Future Past screenwriter Simon Kinberg, as well as the screenwriters for X2: X-Men United, Mike Dougherty and Dan Harris. It certainly doesn’t mean that they’ll be writing it, but with their involvement in what many consider to be the best of the X-Men movies made so far, it’s definitely a good sign. And with Kinberg there with his role as guiding the same-world feeling for this franchise and Fantastic Four, it could result in some interesting things.
Original comic plot concept: Charles Xavier is dead – killed twenty years in the past during a freak time-travel accident – and the world that has arisen in his absence is dark and dangerous indeed. The Darwinian conqueror Apocalypse rules with an iron fist, ruthlessly enforcing his dictum that only the strong shall survive – and in Apocalypse’s long shadow, hidden among a downtrodden humankind, are a group of ragtag freedom fighters led by Xavier’s oldest friend, Magneto: the Amazing X-Men! When Bishop, last survivor of the true Marvel Universe, locates the X-Men and explains how the world went wrong, these embittered mutants and their tenuous allies must risk everything – and undertake a dangerous and multi-pronged quest – to put things right!
Late night #XMen #Apocalypse story session. #SimonKinberg @DanimalHarris @Mike_Dougherty It’s snowing in Egypt! pic.twitter.com/GtJs3VgZ3M
— Bryan Singer (@BryanSinger) December 19, 2013
