But I work on all of those films in one capacity or another, either as a producer on all of them and as a writer on Fantastic Four and this movie, so I’m certainly aware of all the different stories we’re telling at the same time, and they all are part of a larger fabric now, and so the world of Deadpool, the world of Gambit exists in a post-Days of Future Past post-Apocalypse world where all of these stories are the same as our shared history. " takes space chronologically before those other films, so it’s more like those films have to acknowledge this than we acknowledge Gambit, Deadpool, or Fantastic Four or anything else that exists within the sort of Fox/Marvel universe. This universe, where Magneto dropped a stadium around the White House, where mutants are well-known, and where Apocalypse will lay waste to parts of the world a decade later, is the same universe where Deadpool, Gambit, and Wolverine 3 take place later in the timeline. Essentially, the franchise can be rebooted infinitely, but still be considered canon. But for now, the plan in place is for a singular continuity going forward that takes place in the reset world after the 1973 events of X-Men: Days of Future Past. More: How The X-Men Franchise Connects and can Reboot InfinitelyĪs we explored previously in an article about our visit last summer to the set of X-Men: Apocalypse, Bryan Singer has found a way to do anything he wants with future X-Men movies.
It's practically meant to be in an effort to emphasize the point that every X-Men movie can exist in the same continuity by explaining plot holes and differences away with the concept of alternate timelines. X-Men: Days of Future Past sees mutant freedom fighters in a dystopian future send Wolverine back in time to the '70s to alter the course of history and change the future, to a better "happy ending." This version of the '70s was already different than continuity explored in the original X-Men trilogy and its spinoffs, and now it's far more different thanks to the X-Men saving the day in 1973. That is, until 2014's X-Men: Days of Future Past. Time-travel is commonplace in the X-Men comics but in Hollywood, it's surprisingly not been explored in the big comic book cinematic universes. The spin-off movie has been set for release in February 2016.Fans can be as thankful as original X-Men director Bryan Singer that the creative and producer team of Matthew Vaughn, Simon Kinberg, and Lauren Shuler Donner pitched the idea to finally bring in time-travel to the X-Men movie universe with the sequel to First Class. And it’s neat that Twitter and Facebook and Instagram can move mountains when used in the right way.”ĭeadpool was apparently killed via decapitation in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but was seen rising from the rubble and whispering “shhh” to audiences in a post-credit scene. “It’s interesting to see the power of the internet. There was such an overpowering reaction to the footage, you sort of feel like, ‘Oh, so we weren’t crazy for our reasons for loving this character, for loving this role’,” he told the Niagara Falls Review. Of the film’s sudden green light, he said: “The movie has been in a state of limbo for a while.
Reynolds, who presents the superhero as a charismatic loose cannon in the leaked footage, has been interested in portraying Deadpool for more than a decade. In the comics he emerges as an indestructible but mentally unstable anti-hero after submitting himself to the Weapon X genetic alteration experiment in the hope of finding a cure for cancer. Leaked test footage of Ryan Reynolds as Deadpoolĭeadpool, also known as Wade Wilson, is a popular figure in the X-Men universe, to which Fox owns the rights on the big screen.