Bryan Singer and Simon Kinberg talk 'X-Men Apocalypse' plot

X-Men: Days of Future Past hits U.S. theaters on May 23, but fans are already looking ahead to the sequel, X-Men: Apocalypse, on May 27, 2016. In a recent interview, director Bryan Singer and producer/writer Simon Kinberg detailed some elements of the movie.

Singer told EW.com the film would be "somewhat" based on the 1990 comic book storyline "Age of Apocalypse," which features the ancient mutant Apocalypse in an alternate universe.

"The movie won't necessarily create an alternate universe, but there may be some swapping things that I'm playing with," Singer said. Kinberg added, "From a visual standpoint it actually may be a bigger movie than Days of Future Past because there'll be disaster movie imagery, like the title would imply."

Singer also noted that Days of Future Past would provide clues for the sequel.

"You won't feel at the end of the movie that it set up Apocalypse. What it does is it sets up possibilities. But what we'll discover in Apocalypse is that events in this movie made that happen. Apocalypse deals with ancient mutancy. What would humans have thought mutants were? What would mutants think humans were? You're dealing with gods and things like that. And what if one survived and what if that found its way into our world?"

Finally, Singer said Charles Xavier (James McAvoy), Magneto (Michael Fassbender), Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) and Beast (Nicholas Hoult) are all on board for Apocalypse thanks to deals they signed for X-Men: First Class. The director also wants to add other mutants, such as Gambit and Nightcrawler, for the movie.

"I'm excited because I want to start introducing familiar characters at different ages and also explore the '80s," Singer said.

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