X-Men Days of Future Past After Credits Scene Explained, Plus 'Apocalypse' Info

X-Men Days of Future Past is on track to potentially earn more than $120 million in its opening weekend, and those fans who stuck around for the after-credits scene got a glimpse at the sequel, X-Men: Apocalypse, in 2016.

[WARNING: SPOILERS FOR X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST BELOW]

Writer Simon Kinberg spoke to IGN and broke down the post-credits scene, which shows a young Apocalypse constructing the ancient pyramids in Egypt as his worshippers "En Sabah Nur." Four horsemen (literally) watch from a hill in the background.

"The post-credit sequence is a tease into what will be the Apocalypse movie. Now the Apocalypse you see - that young boy - may not be the actor who plays the character in our movie," he said. "It's a deep back story glimpse into the character, but our movie doesn't take place in ancient Egypt and will likely not star a young boy Apocalypse."

Kinberg also talked to Movie Pilot and went into further detail about DOFP and Apocalypse. He noted the latter film would present the "darkest leader" in the franchise and talked about the scope of the movie:

"I had read Age of Apocalypse and most of the appearances of Apocalypse before thinking about the movie, but went back and reread it and I think one of the things that's most exciting about it is the potential for the visual scale of the movie, and so it is a larger story than even Days of Future Past," he said. "In Days of Future Past, they're trying to stop something that's not extinction level in the moment, although it could be one day. There's not an immediacy in the plot and this is a plot that actually has extinction level stakes and is even more global than anything we've ever seen before. There's a lot of architecture from the stories that we'll be using. It will be about his character emotionally, you know, like who is he? Not just as a mutant, but as a person."

For more from Kinberg on Channing Tatum as Gambit and Apocalypse, click here.

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