{"id":25127,"date":"2014-05-25T20:20:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T04:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=25127"},"modified":"2014-05-25T20:20:10","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T04:20:10","slug":"simon-kinberg-on-original-cast-in-x-men-apocalypse-and-gambit-spin-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=25127","title":{"rendered":"Simon Kinberg on original cast in X-MEN: APOCALYPSE, and GAMBIT spin-off."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Xavier04\"<\/p>\n

X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST<\/a> writer and producer, Simon Kinberg<\/strong> spoke with The Daily Beast<\/a> about the end credits stinger for X-MEN: APOCALYPSE<\/a> and reveals that the follow up will feature some of the original trilogy cast.<\/p>\n

“It will focus primarily on the FIRST CLASS<\/a> cast, but it will certainly have some of the original cast involved, too,” he says. Last month, Patrick Stewart<\/strong> hinted<\/a> at playing Professor Xavier again in the future, saying “There might be something else. A little bird has whispered that there might be something X-Men related.”<\/p>\n

Nice!<\/em><\/p>\n

“At some point in making [DOFP] we talked about what the potential next film would be,” he continues, “and we all really gravitated towards Apocalypse. We really wanted [the end credit scene] to be more for the core fans than for the broad audience; to be something that was a genuine tease, and almost mysterious to mainstream audiences who don\u2019t know the comics well, so they\u2019re thinking, \u201cWhat\u2019s that?\u201d<\/p>\n

Giving an update on the developing GAMBIT<\/a> spin-off, Kinberg says it’s “still in-motion and being figured out. Channing [Tatum] made it known that it was a character that he loved and would love to play, and all the people who work on the X-Men movies are huge fans of his, so the notion of him playing it is exciting. I\u2019m more fascinated by anti-heroes, and Gambit is one of those. I don\u2019t know why he wasn\u2019t explored in the original X-Men movies. Maybe the reason why was because they wanted to focus on Rogue\/Bobby or the platonic Rogue\/Wolverine relationship, and maybe there were too many similarities between Wolverine and Gambit, so in order to make it a Wolverine-centric franchise they had to cut him loose.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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