Fox’s version of the Avengers, but with Mutants, could be a real thing in several years.
[dropcap size=small]J[/dropcap]ust over a month ago we reported that Channing Tatum was in the midst of contract negotiations with Twentieth Century Fox involving his role as Gambit. Several details were leaked, including how Channing Tatum would agree to appear in other Twentieth Century Fox movies where Gambit was involved. At the time this seemed like big news, but nothing too special. However, if you take this information and combine it with Simon Kinberg’s plan to bring together everything before Days of Future Past and everything afterwards (Gambit, Deadpool, etc) you’ve got something really special planned.
While being interview by MTV at the Toronto Film Festival, Simon Kinberg divulged some details about what his overall plans are.
“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…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…There will be interplay between different characters in different movies.”
Of course the task of keeping up with every movie released by Twentieth Century Fox involving mutants can be quite a heavy task, so he makes a list mentally.
“I don’t have it up on a wall, but I have it on my computer, and I have it sort of tattooed on my brain now too…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 mind at least, how we could start to cross-pollinate sort of with those characters that have their standalone movies.”
Not only did Simon Kinberg talk about his plans for the future of X-Men and all other mutants involved, he also spent some time talking about the mutant Apocalypse and his costume/attire.
“I feel like we have been, the ’X-Men’ franchise, has been growing a little bit more into science fiction. I think ’Days of Future Past’ with time travel and the Sentinels took us into a slightly broader, more science fiction world than the films had occupied in the past…We felt like the movies were ready for something that was slightly more, let’s say, cosmic. Once we made the decision for Apocalypse to be the villain at the center of the movie, we wanted to be true to the comics, which are sort of, like you, say, not costume, but it’s not just a guy in a helmet. It is more cosmic.”
Deadpool will be in theaters on February 12th, 2016, followed by X-Men: Apocalypse on May 16th, 2016 and finally Gambit on October 7th, 2016.
