X-Men Apocalypse To Feature More Mystique and End the Trilogy

<p>Though a key player in the primary events of <strong><em>X-Men&colon; Days of Future Past<&sol;em><&sol;strong>&comma; Mystique wasn&&num;8217&semi;t as much a focus as was the relationship between Charles and Erik&period; The next <em><strong>X-Men<&sol;strong> <&sol;em>film&comma; <strong><em>Apocalypse<&sol;em><&sol;strong>&comma; will primarily focus on <strong>Jennifer Lawrence&&num;8217&semi;s<&sol;strong> Mystique and <strong>Nicholas Hoult&&num;8217&semi;s<&sol;strong> Beast&period; <strong>Simon Kinberg<&sol;strong> dropped a few hints in an interview with Collider&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>I will say that &lbrack;X-Men&colon; Apocalypse&rsqb; is definitely the close of a trilogy for those First Class characters&comma; which isn’t to say we won’t see them in future movies&comma; hopefully we will&comma; but it’s a completion of an arc for them&period; I think that the friendship between Erik and Charles&comma; which has always been so integral to the franchise&comma; is something we’re continuing to explore and hopefully deepen with Apocalypse&period; And the relationship between Beast and Mystique is a really interesting one that we didn’t have a lot of time to explore in Days of Future Past&comma; so we’ll have an opportunity to do more of that in Apocalypse&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Part of what’s really interesting about Mystique’s character is that she is&comma; in some ways&comma; the child of both Erik and Charles&period; She grew up with Charles and then she sort of became a woman with Erik&comma; so her being the cross-pollination&comma; if you will&comma; of those two philosophies and those two men is something we can explore in the movie too&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>While not a definitive response&comma; it still sounds like Mystique will have a bigger role&period; However&comma; it could just be Kinberg ramping up some excitement for a solo Mystique movie&period; Again&comma; nothing confirmed&comma; but he has been talking at great length about how much he loves the character&period; And with a few solo Marvel projects being speculated for future Fox Marvel films&comma; it wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t be a bad idea to feature one with an Oscar-winning actress&period; Either way&comma; she&&num;8217&semi;s certainly one of the most conflicted and interesting characters of the <em>X-Men<&sol;em> franchise and I&&num;8217&semi;m very much looking forward to seeing more of her on screen&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>X-Men Apocalypse<&sol;strong><&sol;em> is currently planned to release in theaters on <strong>May 27&comma; 2016<&sol;strong>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;collider&period;com&sol;x-men-apocalypse-mystique-jennifer-lawrence&sol;">Collider<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;