Who was that guy? Plus, screenwriter-producer Simon Kinberg on whether Bryan Singer will return to direct X-Men: Apocalypse and more. SPOILERS!
Warning: The following post contains SPOILERS about the very, very, very end of X-Men: Days of Future Past — and possible spoilers about the next film in the franchise.
Jennifer Lawrence in X-Men: Days of Future Past
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One of the most common elements of the modern superhero movie has been the post-credits teaser, a way of enticing fans for the next installment — and the one that follows the end-credits for X-Men: Days of Future Past is a doozy.
The camera pans along a vast, barren desert until it comes upon a lone hooded figure standing atop a giant dune while holding his arms in the air. Soon we see a throng of supplicating worshipers chanting "En Sabah Nur! En Sabah Nur!" before him, as the slight figure seems to create the famed Egyptian pyramids in a swirling mass of giant stone blocks. The camera swings around to reveal the hooded man is a young fellow with grey-blue skin — and a pack of four cloaked men on horseback are waiting nearby.
Whaaa? Here's everything you need to know about who this mysterious figure is, and what it all means for the X-Men franchise.
It's a teaser for the next X-Men movie, X-Men: Apocalypse — which Days of Future Past's embattled director Bryan Singer is still in line to direct.
Days of Future Past writer-producer Simon Kinberg (who also holds those titles for Apocalypse) told BuzzFeed that Singer is directing the new film — although another source close to the production cautioned that while 20th Century Fox has always planned on Singer directing, his deal at the moment is only as a producer.
Alan Markfield / 20th Century Fox
At the least, Singer did definitely direct the post-credits sequence that is meant to introduce the upcoming movie's ominous (and seemingly omnipotent) title villain.
While the ancient Egyptian setting suggests Apocalypse could be jumping way back in time, Kinberg (pictured above) said that the sequence is truly meant "as a tease" for X-Men: Apocalypse. "It's backstory, history, for what will be the character of Apocalypse in the next film," he told BuzzFeed. "It's not necessarily a part of the main story of the movie."
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