Evan Peters' character Quicksilver was the breakout star in the film "X-Men: Days of Future Past," so for "X-Men: Apocalypse," he will be playing an even bigger role now that he is going to explore his lineage.
Producer Simon Kinberg said during an interview with Collider that they already set the tone for Quicksilver's story in "Days of Future Past" when the characters discussed his father, who is known in the comic books as Magneto.
"It's something that we allude to very vaguely in 'Days of Future Past' when he says, 'My mom knew a guy who could control metal' and (Michael) Fassbender gives him that look, all of which is meant to indicate that it's his father. It's a part of the film and I think it's a really emotional, really important part of the movie," he shared.
As for Jennifer Lawrence's character Raven, there have been reports that she will be taking on a leadership role this time around. Kinberg said that her decisions in the upcoming film have a lot to do with the events that transpired in "Days of Future Past."
"I think the movie explores her struggle, which is sort of the result of 'Days of Future Past.' If you think about the end of 'Days of Future Past,' in front of the entire world she stops Magneto and saves the President and cabinet, and so this movie certainly explores 10 years later what it is to wear the mantle of that responsibility," he said.
Kinberg is really pleased with what director Bryan Singer, the cast, as well as the crew have done so far in "Apocalypse," and he is very excited for audiences to see it.
"I've said this before and I feel it even more having seen the movie cut together: I do think it will be the biggest of the X-Men films just in terms of the scale and the scope of the movie, and even more the emotional stakes and scope of the film," he said. "It has a level of drama and emotion, for all of the characters-I think going into it I assumed this would be the culmination in many ways of this little trilogy we were telling for young Erik, Charles, Mystique, and Beast but I think what was surprising over the span of photography and now into post as well is just how resonant the young Jean, Scott, and Storm stories are too."
"So I think the movie feels very balanced between-I don't wanna call them the older generation because they were the younger generation, but the generation of the X-Men from the last few films and the new generation," he concluded.
