X-MEN: APOCALYPSE is culmination of FIRST CLASS arc.

Writer and producer Simon Kinberg told Collider that X-MEN: APOCALYPSE is the “culmination” of the “mini trilogy” which began with X-MEN: FIRST CLASS.

“It delivers on the dramatic story and emotion of the last two movies,” he said. “It feels like the culmination of the four main characters really — McAvoy, Fassbender, Nic Hoult, and Jen. And it’s a bigger movie in both physical scale and I would say emotional stakes too because it is the culmination of this mini trilogy of stories.”