So what do we know about the film?
Heres everything weve gleaned so far… Singer tweeted that revelation with just the words #Xmen and #Apocalypse.
Singer soon surprised fans several weeks later with a new photo displaying theX-Men: Apocalypsewriting team.
We analysed that picture in, er, a bit too much detail here.
Dougherty and Harris also penned the excellentX2, as well asSuperman Returns.
Check out Doughertys excellentTrick r Treatif you get the chance, too.
We dissected it here.
Singer was finally confirmed as the director ofX-Men: Apocalypsein September 2014.
Construction is currently gearing up to begin before the end of the year on the movies Montreal sets.
The film is slated to start production in April 2015.
Singer and Kinberg confirmed that all four would be coming back as the stars during an interview in April.
Kinberg since added that he consideredX-Men: Apocalypseto be the third part of a First Class trilogy.
He revealed that a Quicksilver scene has already been storyboarded.
Since Singer said that, Channing Tatum has signed on to play the role of Gambit.
It also confirmed that the movie will be set in 1983.
For his part, McAvoy has said that he expects to be bald in the new movie.
Yet there certainly needs to be room for expansion and change, and the titular Apocalypse offers exactly that.
However, Apocalypse will beat both to the big screen as a major threat in earnest.
And he has his own complex mythology.
First introduced inX-Factor#5 in 1986, Apocalypse is a mutant originally named En Sabah Nur.
He essentially wants world domination, removing the moral ambiguity between Xavier and Magnetos dichotomy.
We suspect this will include turning at least one good X-Men mutant into a Horseman of the Apocalypse.
Said horsemen are mutants made demonic slaves to Apocalypses will.
Hardy is also being courted by Warner Bros to play an unspecified role in 2016sSuicide Squad.
While details remain elusive for theX-Men: Apocalypsestory, certain nuggets have slipped out in recent months.
The altering of time has unleashed a new and uniquely powerful enemy.
However, the 1980s setting is also of special consideration.
Might the ongoing space race, and Ronald Reagans Star Wars defence programme come into it, we wonder?
Simon Kinberg added that it will be a bigger movie than evenX-Men: Days Of Future Past.
Therell be disaster movie imagery, like the title would imply, he said.
Whatever the case, we have our own guesses as to what that might mean for the plot.
And thats what we know so far.X-Men: Apocalyseis scheduled for release in May 2016.
And heck, we even get aDeadpoolmovie before it comes out too…
