10 Questions You Should Be Asking About Upcoming Movies

6. Whose Movie Is This? - X-Men: Apocalypse

After bringing us the biggest superhero film of 2014 worldwide, it's clear that X-Men is well and truly back. Before this year things were pretty dark, with tired Wolverine spin-offs and disappointing box office returns; First Class made less than half what Days Of Future Past raked in. Now the future is getting really exciting, with the timeline restart in DoFP opening up a whole new world of possibilities. Which is good for Fox, who are wanting to get the Marvel-model shared universe up and running; expect the Fantastic Four to pop by Xavier's school at some point. Before that (possibly) happens, we've got X-Men: Apocalypse. Set ten years after Days Of Future Past (so we're going to the eighties), the film will follow the First Class gang, as well as introducing younger versions of some old favourites, who'll all team up against the titular super-mutant. And that's pretty much all we know (and all we really want to); Bryan Singer's only just getting things moving now and shooting begins next year. Much has been made of Apocalypse himself - that post credit scene got everyone excited - but little thought has gone into what the story will be and who will fit the protagonist role. X-Men's always been an ensemble piece, but we've always had our de facto lead. Normally Wolverine (in the original trilogy and his spin-offs), the younger characters have begun to dominate more; First Class was Magneto's journey and Days Of Future Past Charles'. So who's taking that role this time? The obvious choice would be Mystique, who, as Jennifer Lawrence, has become one of the franchise's central characters. Or, you know, it could be Wolverine.
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