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X-Men: Apocalypse (May 27)

Bryan Singer actually gets to direct the third film in the X-Men trilogy! What’s more, he’s brought back many iconic characters (Cyclops! Jean Grey! Storm! Nightcrawler!) and elements (a new Quicksilver scene). While the initial footage was underwhelming (Apocalypse looked straight-up like Ivan Ooze), later trailers have a more grandiose and comic booky feel to them, absolutely essential in a story about an Egyptian mutant-god of destruction. It should gross equal to Days of Future Past, if word-of-mouth is good. As this franchise moves into a cinematic universe era of storytelling, it has to embrace the operatic roots of the X-Men. Given the last 16 years of the Singer-verse, I’m not sure he’s the one to deliver but Josh Boone’s The New Mutants and a proper retelling of the Dark Phoenix saga has my hopes high post-Apocalypse.