Bryan Singer on X-MEN: APOCALYPSE: "Anyone Can Die! Any Possibility Could Occur."

Bryan Singer on X-MEN: APOCALYPSE: "Anyone Can Die! Any Possibility Could Occur."

The director gives in his insight to how the stakes are raised and how no one is safe in the next installment of the X-Men film franchise, despite the previous film indicating otherwise...

By Danbito - Jan 31, 2016 05:01 PM EST
Filed Under: X-Men: Apocalypse
Source: IGN

Bryan Singer's next installment to the X-Men film franchise, X-Men: Apocalypse, aims to up the ante introducing (and re-introducing) many beloved characters to the big screen. Not only is its cast of characters a major selling point, but also the major disaster-movie level of destruction that the titular role is set to cause and how no character is safe from chaos. However Singer's previous installment, X-Men: Days of Future Past, could prove to be an issue selling this point, given that movie's conclusion involves Logan returning to a new timeline where previously deceased characters return to the present. Apocalypse is set to take place within this new timeline in 1983, chronologically before Logan's arrival to this new world.

Logically, it would have been safe to assume that the X-Men would ultimately prevail and relatively safe, given that characters appearing in Apocalypse are alive and well by Days of Future Past's ending. (Namely Prof. X, Beast, Jean Grey, Cyclops and Storm) However, Bryan Singer reveals that even characters appearing in the new present-day are not safe from Apocalypse in an onset report from IGN: 

"[Those present-day characters are] all fair game, because anything can happen. When two things are happening simultaneously in quantum physics, it's what's called a superposition. When the observer finally observes the outcome, that's called the outcome of the superposition, which is what happened when Wolverine woke up and saw all the happiness [at the end of Days of Future Past]. So yes, that is the outcome, we hope. That is the outcome we aspire to, and that is the outcome we are moving towards, but it's not -- we saw in Days of Future Past how time, we saw another dark world. What says that can't happen again? What says the awakening of a being that has such power [Apocalypse] can't acquire the power to destabilize that? So, you know, anything is possible. So that's what we'd like to think happened. … But to me, it's fair game.”


It looks to be that even with the original cast's epilogue in Days of Future Past, no character is given immunity within this film. Singer seemingly implies that the timeline can still change, even the happy future that Wolverine woke up to, whether it be by another quantum physics anomaly, or the vast power that Apocalypse holds can create a superpositon that can alter timelines. All that can be sure is that the stakes can now live up to the film's tagline " Only the Strong Will Survive" . Who will survive the battle against Apocalypse? Share your thoughts below!

X-Men: Apocalypse hits theatres on May 27, 2016.
 

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GhostDog
GhostDog - 1/31/2016, 7:30 PM
So the ending of DOFP can change??? More continuity weirdness and bullshit


Wish we just had a definite timeline like the other cinematic universes. You can play with time, but make sure it's logical and comprehensive. That's hard cause time is such an intriguing but sometimes confusing subject, but it can be done. Other films have done it well
Luminus
Luminus - 2/1/2016, 1:54 AM
@ComicsBornAndBred - It's not confusing at all. They made this CRYSTAL CLEAR in Days of Future Past, during the Tivo scene in the mansion. The confusion is your own. When Apocalypse wakes up, that future Wolverine appeared in will disappear just like all the other futures we saw disappear, when Kitty time traveled.
BlackStar25
BlackStar25 - 1/31/2016, 9:08 PM
I call bullshit...They are going to [frick] up the continuity already right after fixing it...
DukeAcureds
DukeAcureds - 2/1/2016, 3:39 AM
Or to use the words of Dr. Manhattan:



Also, Apocalypse was never in the earlier timeline. So perhaps the ripples of Logan's time travel somehow stretched all the way back to ancient Egypt, meaning that all future's from that point on would be in flux.

And if that's not enough, then, on a multiversal scale, Secret Wars just happened. Even the FoX-Men Universe counts as part of the Marvel Multiverse, so technically, this is a new universe, anyway.
JoJo1982
JoJo1982 - 2/1/2016, 5:38 AM
The new timeline pretty much confirmed that everyone at the end of dofp will be okay. Logan woke up in the new timeline where the events of xmen apocalypse has happened
glades7
glades7 - 2/1/2016, 7:10 AM
Franklin Richards exist in this universe, and everything is explained.
HelloAlien
HelloAlien - 2/1/2016, 11:02 AM
PiereDevon
PiereDevon - 2/6/2016, 8:14 AM
Xmen is so gritty. Thats what i love about this franchise
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