{"id":22741,"date":"2013-12-10T03:14:29","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T09:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=22741"},"modified":"2013-12-10T03:14:29","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T09:14:29","slug":"xmen-apocalypse-is-a-first-class-film-not-focusing-on-the-originals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=22741","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;X-Men: Apocalypse&#8217; will be third film in &#8216;First Class&#8217; series."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/xmenfilms.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/12\/xmenapocalypse-logo1.gif?resize=470%2C119\" alt=\"XMENAPOCALYPSE-LOGO\" width=\"470\" height=\"119\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22647\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/films\/x-men-apocalypse\/\">X-MEN: APOCALYPSE<\/a> will feature the &#8220;First Class&#8221; cast and not be an &#8220;X5&#8221; with the original trilogy gang as some fans were hoping for. The news was revealed via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2013\/12\/will-bryan-singer-direct-x-men-apocalypse.html?mid=twitter_vulture\" target=\"_blank\">Vulture<\/a>, who reports that Bryan Singer will indeed direct the film, which releases on May 27, 2016. It will be a direct sequel set-up from the events of next year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/films\/x-men-days-of-future-past\/\">X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST<\/a> and technically serve as the third film in the burgeoning &#8220;First Class&#8221; series.<\/p>\n<p><em>Happy or mad? Think young Jean and Cyclops will be involved? &#8220;Younger&#8221; Wolverine?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X-MEN: APOCALYPSE will feature the &#8220;First Class&#8221; cast and not be an &#8220;X5&#8221; with the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crew-talk","category-x-men-days-of-future-past"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}