Bryan Singer Gives 'X-Men: Apocalypse' Scriptease

Hot on the heels of the success of X-Men: Days of Future Past, Bryan Singer is already working with Simon Kinberg, Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris on the script for X-Men: Apocalypse. We now know the next installment will be set in the early 1980s in what Singer has called an "inbetweenquel" which bridges to the original X-Men movie. Of course, with the timeline changes of X-Men: First Class and DoFP, there are absolutely no guarantees the original movie will stand as is.

Why should people be excited about Singer's Instagram photo showing the first page of the script? First thing is, the writers. In addition to Singer, Kinberg wrote the screenplay for DoFP, which has gotten great reviews, helped us forget his involvement with X-Men: The Last Stand, and will provide some style continuity for the upcoming movie. Dougherty and Harris were involved with the screenplay for X2, which was also a hit back in 2003, so the writing team has Xperience and success behind them.

The Future of the X-Men After the Future has Passed

X-Men: Days of Future Past hasn't been released yet, but the hints and speculation about the next X-Men movie are already out there and picking up steam. Back in January, Hollywood Reporter published 20th Century Fox's intention to release X-Men: Apocalypse in May of 2016.

Since then, there's been rampant guesswork about who will appear in the movie and how director Bryan Singer intends to bring everything and everybody together to fight the iconic villain, Apocalypse. A multi-film crossover concept is also being beach-balled around the internets wherein Apocalypse's story unfolds through not only the X-Men, but hinted at through Days of Future Past and the X-Force movie being talked about (bring on Cable!!).

'X-Men: Days of Future Past' Official Trailer

Bryan Singer's "X-Men: Days of Future Past" may not hit US theaters until May 23, 2014, but luckily, an awesome and revealing trailer has just been released to hold us over. This sequel-prequel is chock full of X-Men goodness and includes not only our old favorites, but many new faces.

I spy Jennifer Lawrence ("The Hunger Games") as "Mystique," Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones") as "Bolivar Trask," Evan Peters ("American Horror Story") jumps aboard to play "Quicksilver" and Anna Paquin is back to play "Rogue."  Oh and of course there's Wolverine with a little distinguished-looking graying to his mane.

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Enough babbling...check out the trailer!

Updated with geeky Aaron Sagers notes: Larissa totally missed a bearded Shawn Ashmore as Iceman and Ellen Page as Kitty Pryde. And Bishop! The story seems to suggest that a softer Magneto (Ian McKellen) and Prof. X (Patrick Stewart) want Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) to head to the past to restore hope to our formerly merry band of mutants. Younger Xavier (James McAvoy) and Magneto (Michael Fassbender) appear to be caught in something of a civil rights mutant war, which. says Magneto, needs to be stopped before it begins.

I'm guessing Jennifer Lawrence, who has become a national treasure, will have a beefed up role as Mystique. What we don't see are the Sentinels, but we know they're there. What else are we missing? We saw future Warpath, Havoc, Storm (Halle Berry) maybe Blink, an angry blue Beast? Richard Nixon! There were cool future apocalyptic, vest-heavy costumes. And Wolvie definitely slashes into some '70s dude. I expect lots of mutant deaths in this one, even if they are then undone by erasing the future. Overall, this looks good and gut-wrenching. To whet your X-time travel whistle until May 23, check out the "All-New X-Men" Marvel comic.

-Larissa Mrykalo, Aaron Sagers