10 Biggest Mysteries Surrounding 2016's Biggest Movies

3. How Will The Movie Connect To The X-Men Universe? - Deadpool

Audiences have been told on several occasions that the upcoming Deadpool movie is set in the same cinematic universe as that of the X-Men movies. Despite the fact that this seems to make little sense due to Deadpool's meta nature, the filmmakers have continued to play up this link. The only question that remains, then, is how will these worlds connect? Of course, things have been made rather confusing by way of X-Men: Days Of Future Past, which rejigged the timeline to phase out a number of the movies previously considered to be "canon" in order to clean things up a little (the X-Men continuity is incredibly messy). Whereabouts in said timeline Deadpool is supposed to play about is something of a colossal mystery. Given that there are barely any clues in the trailer regarding this matter, too, means that it's hard to place Deadpool without actually watching the film. The waiting game, then.
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