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Collider<\/a> recently had the chance to chat with X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST<\/a> writer and producer Simon Kinberg<\/strong> about the upcoming X-MEN: APOCALYPSE<\/a> film which comes to theaters May 27, 2016.<\/p>\n As previously reported, Kinberg confirms that “Apocalypse” is the final film in the “First Class” trilogy, which brought stars James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult to the forefront of the X-Men franchise.<\/p>\n \u201cI will say that [X-Men: Apocalypse] is definitely the close of a trilogy for those First Class characters, which isn\u2019t to say we won\u2019t see them in future movies,” Kinberg asserts. “Hopefully we will, but it\u2019s a completion of an arc for them. I think that the friendship between Erik and Charles, which has always been so integral to the franchise, is something we\u2019re continuing to explore and hopefully deepen with Apocalypse. And the relationship between Beast and Mystique is a really interesting one that we didn\u2019t have a lot of time to explore in Days of Future Past, so we\u2019ll have an opportunity to do more of that in Apocalypse.\u201d<\/p>\n Kinberg says he’s interesting in further exploring Lawrence’s Mystique and where her path may ultimately lead.<\/p>\n \u201cPart of what\u2019s really interesting about Mystique\u2019s character is that she is, in some ways, the child of both Erik and Charles. She grew up with Charles and then she sort of became a woman with Erik, so her being the cross-pollination, if you will, of those two philosophies and those two men is something we can explore in the movie too.\u201d<\/p>\n On the film being set in 1983, he says that Bryan Singer and himself are having lots of fun with the time period.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re having a lot of fun with the idea of the 80s. It\u2019s a decade that Bryan and I both grew up in and so the music, the style, the aesthetic, the legacy of 80s movies is something we\u2019re really having fun with.\u201d<\/p>\n