Simon Kinberg on interconnecting X-MEN films.

While attending Toronto’s International Film Festival, DEADPOOL, X-MEN:APOCALYPSE and GAMBIT producer Simon Kinberg told MTV that each film (all releasing in 2016) along with 2017’s WOLVERINE finale and the in-development NEW MUTANTS naturally takes place within the same universe, at different points in the new timeline created by the history-altering events of X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST.

“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,” he said. “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.”

Kinberg says he keeps track of every film within new continuity logic by using a couple methods.

“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,” he bsaid. “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 my mind at least, how we could start to cross-pollinate sort of with those characters that have their standalone movies.”

X-Men is a shared cinematic universe within itself, containing several characters and teams that can each carry their own films with sequels crossovers.

Source: MTV
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