Kinberg on connecting DEADPOOL, APOCALYPSE and GAMBIT.

IGN spoke with writer/producer Simon Kinberg about the upcoming slate of three ‘X-Men’ related films in 2016 and if they will share connectivity with each other. So far we know that X-MEN: APOCALYPSE takes place in 1983, but the timelines for DEADPOOL and GAMBIT are still unknown. Kinberg says that each film will acknowledge each other, expanding the X-Men universe on screen.

“That has the same kind of integration, where like it’s a smaller group [of films], but all of the films are aware of each other,” confirms Kinberg. “I know what is happening in each story, in each of the movies and they certainly acknowledge each other. So things that happen in one film are acknowledged by the other movies.

“The result of the aftermath of ‘Apocalypse’ is something that will impact the course of history in the world in much the same that ‘Days of Future Past’ did. The end of ‘Days of Future Past’ was from 1973 forward, the world knew about mutants, a mutant took a football stadium and dropped it on The White House. That’s not the history that we were raised on. So instead of ignoring that, all of the movies that come after the timeline acknowledge it and embrace it, and it becomes part of the complicated reality of X-Men history on film.

“So I would say certainly the films are all gonna be informed by one another, because I’m a fanboy and the people that make these movies, [director] Bryan [Singer] is a fanboy and Lauren Shuler Donner, all of us like having little easter eggs, little winks from movie-to-movie. I think for hardcore fans they will see that in each of the films.”

When asked if there were any plans to explore what Mystique did with Wolverine at the end of ‘Days of Future Past,’ Kinberg only says that “a lot of things will be answered in ‘Apocalypse,’ but I will only say that I love Hugh Jackman playing Wolverine.”