Simon Kinberg Confirms There Are Plans To Crossover DEADPOOL & GAMBIT With The X-MEN
While we've seen signs of Fox's intention to "cross-pollinate" their X-Men properties in the past, we've finally received some pretty definite confirmation of that happening from writer/producer Simon Kinberg. Hit the jump to see how he plans to bring these characters together!
By Minty -
Sep 15, 2015 01:09 PM EST
Source: MTV
"There will be interplay between different characters in different movies," according to X-Men: Apocalypse producer/writer Simon Kinberg. Speaking to MTV News at the Toronto Internation Film Festival this week, Kinberg elaborated on the expanded X-Men universe and confirmed that Fox are looking to "cross-pollinate" characters from the spin-off movies like Gambit and Deadpool.
"The idea is that we’ve sort of reset the timeline after Days Of Future Past in some ways, and if not erased, certainly allowed for change from ’X1,’ ’2,’ ’3,’ everything from ’Days of Future Past’ forward, 1973, everything we set now becomes canon," he explained. "So the Gambit movie, the Deadpool movie, will exist in a world that acknowledges whatever happened in Days Of Future Past and moving forward. Doesn’t mean they’ll always interact with those characters, obviously, it’s not like every movie has all the characters, but they all have to exist within the same rules."
"I have it on my computer, and I have it sort of tattooed on my brain now too," Kinberg added, when asked how he kept track of all these character plans. "Nothing external, so that if I get knocked over the head, no one can read it. It’s literally behind my eyelids. But yeah, we have a clear sense of the directions we want to take them in and in my my mind at least, how we could start to cross-pollinate sort of with those characters that have their standalone movies."
After Gambit & Deadpool's last appearance in the X-Men universe, some fans believed Fox would try and keep their spin-off movies apart. While it's exciting to learn that won't be the case after all, it's even more encouraging to hear how much thought has been put into maintaining continuity throughout all these movies - something this studio have struggled with in the past.
X-Men: Apocalypse hits theaters May 27, 2016.