4. Bryan Singer Has Been Telling Little White Lies
The involvement of Omar Sy's Bishop was always something of an odd quandry for those fans of X-Men who know the Days Of Future Past story arc particularly well. Obviously, Bishop is an important figure in terms of the alternate future universe, because he is effectively the Terminator-like character who heads to the past/present in the wake of a major event (more of which soon) that triggers Apocalypse's early involvement with Earth, but he's not really explicitly involved in the events of Days Of Future Past. If Singer is so willingly announcing that Apocalypse is the next step for his X-Men series, then presumably, that reveal is linked to actual events in Days Of Future Past, which is the crux of the matter, and in order to get the Days Of Future Past and Age Of Apocalypse arcs tied together, Singer needs both a bridging event and a bridging character, because of the nature of the stories. Quite how he will do that with Bishop - presumably the key to the Apocalypse arc, considering his importance in the comic book source - remains to be seen, but you have to suspect that it will involve Bishop ultimately travelling back in time at the end of Days Of Future Past with a Doc Brown-like warning that "it's Apocalypse, Magneto - something's got to be done about Apocalypse." That is in direct contradiction to Singer's assertion that it would only be Wolverine who does any sort of time travelling in Days Of Future Past at all - but then it's far from unprecedented for directors to pull a switch in order to preserve key narrative details, even though it seems Singer wants to announce every single element of the film before we get to the cinemas next year.