Direct Bryan Singer Examines whether 'Days of Future Past' caused 'Apocalypse'
With the new trilogy, the timeline is fractured and ultimately offers its own distinct timeline in contrast to the original trilogy of X-Men films. The finale of Days of Future Past caused the split, and rendered events happening post-1973 as being separate from what came before.
This begs the question whether the first mutant, Apocalypse, arose as a direct result of the fracturing of the timeline. Cinemablend posed the question of whether the original timeline ever saw Apocalypse's return to director Bryan Singer, who speculated deeply on the theory.
"We play with time in Days of Future Past in a sense where there's immutability of time, which is time kind of gathering itself after being disrupted. Then there's the disruption of time, which enables us to have a lot of freedom in future films.
"But my feeling is, there's also theories in physics, quantum physics, about parallel timelines. SO I look at the conclusion of the last movie. And I look at Apocalypse's arrival as yet another disruption in the timeline that we've come familiar with over the history of the films.
"How do I explain it? Well, maybe see another movie, [and] we'll figure that out. Maybe that will be the plot of the next one! Maybe we just came up with it right there!"
Mystique's actions not killing Trask in 1973 leads to a halt in the sentinel-driven future, and exposes mutants to the world earlier than otherwise. This then leads to a cult looking to discover Apocalypse and resurrect him in 1983. It's certainly fun to contemplate.
Source: Cinemablend
