‘X-MEN: APOCALYPSE’ Details: 1980’s Period Piece, TONS OF DESTRUCTION.

So X-Men: Apocalypse is going to be a 1980’s period piece? Maybe it’s because it’s the Friday before Spring Break, but I can’t muster up my usual contempt for Singer. It’s not there. I’m surfing a Sudafed/Monster Energy buzz that is glazed over with a healthy slathering of contentment. So I’ll say this: I hope it’s good. There. (But it won’t be because Singer is a hack and the X-Universe is a mess.)

In a new interview, Singer revealed a few more details on the film, including the fact it’ll be an Eighties period piece, and the logical continuation of the Seventies look ofDays of Future Past, and that it will have “will more of the mass destruction that X-Menfilms, to date, have not relied upon.” Read the quotes below.

Singer spoke to Total Film (via Comic Book Movie) and said the following about the film:

We’re going to deal the the notion of ancient mutants – the fact they were born and existed thousands of years ago. But it’ll be a contemporary movie – well, it’ll take place in the ’80s… The ’80s is a period now – it’s hard for me to believe that! ‘Apocalypse’ will have more of the mass destruction that ‘X-Men’ films, to date, have not relied upon. There’s definitely now a character and a story that allow room for that kind of spectacle.

He was then asked to possibly comment on that aforementioned character who allowed for destruction:

I don’t want to get too specific, but we’ll introduce familiar characters in a younger time. That’ll be fun to show the audience. I call these movies in-between-quels. It’s a mind-fuck, sometimes, in terms of where things fall in the timeline!

And though Apocalypse won’t be released until 2016, Singer seems pretty committed to telling even more X-Men stories beyond that.

Yeah, there actually are [more stories I want to tell]. It all stems back to when I did [the first] X-Men. You always want to know where a character’s going to go, what their future’s going be like. You can always sequelise. But on that film I also had actors asking ‘Who am I? Where did my character come from?’ So as a director you always need a backstory to give your actors. It may not be the right backstory, but it’s one you can give the actor to help them understand their character. These prequels are really exciting for me because they give me a chance to explore ideas I came up with more than a decade ago. [/Film]

Seriously though — what the fucking is going on with X-Men continuity in the movies? Like — so the first ones counted. “Modern day.” Then there’s First Class. The 1960’s. Now there’s also the future in Days of Future Past. And now we’re adding the 1980’s?

Huh?