‘X2’ screenwriters join Bryan Singer for ‘X-Men Apocalypse’ coming in 2016
Director Bryan Singer is getting his old team back together for X-Men: Apocalypse, with the director recruiting X2 screenwriters Mike Dougherty and Dan Harris to work on the new film.
Singer tweeted a photo of the pair with Simon Kinberg working the new script.
Late night #XMen #Apocalypse story session. #SimonKinberg @DanimalHarris @Mike_Dougherty It’s snowing in Egypt! – Bryan Singer tweeted.
The Egypt reference is a tie directly to Apocalyse’s Egyptian origin story.
More origins details from Marvel Wiki below.
Fox recently announced the film, set for 2016.
Some spoilers have been leaked tying X-Men: Days of Future Past to the new film – details HERE
X-Men: Days of Future Past opens May 23, 2014.
In the harsh, unforgiving desert of ancient Egypt, ruled by Rama-Tut, a band of nomadic raiders found an infant, gray-skinned and freakish in appearance, abandoned by the settlers of Akkaba. The nomads took the child for their own, giving him the name En Sabah Nur, “The First One,” and teaching him to be “strong” in order to survive the desert as a child. This idea, that “the strong will survive,” would shape Apocalypse’s actions throughout time.
When En Sabah Nur was an adult, he was captured with his nomadic clan and forced into slave labor under the Grand Vizier Ozymandias. He quickly became a rebel and was even killed by agents of Ozymandias, only to be revived soon after due to his mutant powers. Believing himself “strong” and blessed, En Sabah Nur discovered Rama Tut’s technology underneath Egypt, and soon destroyed the Egyptian rulers around him and twisted Ozymandias into the being he is today.
Apparently, Apocalypse would use Rama Tut’s technology to “regenerate” for long periods of time, becoming more and more powerful when awakening.