The first X-Men movie trilogy – X-Men (2000), X2 (2003), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) – was a major herald of the oncoming age of super hero universe movie franchising; unfortunately that also meant that it suffered the early growing pains of poor foresight, planning and execution.

Since that dark time, the X-Men movie franchise has managed to find its way back into fans' hearts, thanks to a semi-successful quasi reboot prequel, X-Men: First Class (2011), and a sequel film Days of Future Past (2014) that used a time travel plot device to essentially put a blank slate wipe on the X-Men movie continuity.

Now director Bryan Singer is working on X-Men: Apocalypse for a 2016 release, and in his own words, it will be the end chapter of in the X-Men movie saga we've seen thus far. In addition to introducing new characters like Olivia Munn's Psylocke, the series is essentially giving the core X-men characters a chance to develop into something different than what we saw in the first trilogy.