Apocalypse
is coming. And what happens after?
We know that fans has been expecting many things on X-Men franchise. Based on
what they expect, on what we’ve seen on Days of Future Past and what the comics
has given to us, we have some amazing dreaming ideas to the future of the
Children of the Atom on the big screen if we had money to do this.
Many people want to see the cast of the trilogy again, and we know Apocalypse
is going to 80’s, so… how to keep two different timelines wisely? We aren’t
messing with Apocalypse, but only what comes later.
Besides Apocalipse, the official announcements are about a Deadpool and a third Wolverine's solo, AND an unknown X-Men movie to 2018... That I imagine that can be or a X-Men sequel OR an X-Force movie (it makes sense after two X-Force members solo movies),
But in this post, we had pictured a dreaming
world where, like Marvel Studios, Fox releases two X-Men Movies for year. So
let’s see what comes after Apocalypse (with dreaming dates, of course… We know
that in real life, things aren’t so easy!).
Just something before starts: I prefer the X-Men as a team instead solo movies,
as you will see…
The
Wolverine: Wedding Day (2015/2016)
Slightly based on
Uncanny X-Men #172 and #173, the third Wolverine solo movie opens with an
astonishing sequence that reproduces with changelings the climax of X2… It all
starts with Wolverine on Alkali Lake basement remembering everything and facing
William Stryker, that run from the base, that’s coming down… He lets Logan down
there with Lady Deathstrike, who’s defeated by Wolverine being thrown into a
hole (differently from X2). Wolverine runs with some X-Men, and we see Rogue
piloting the jet and the sequence ends up suddenly, when Jean Grey – until now holding
the water – dies.
Then we have the plot. Two years later we see Logan on Japan on his wedding’s
eve. Somehow, the screenplay shows that the “ripples” created on DOFP still
gets Logan into that plot with the Silver Samurai and Mariko Yashida on James
Mangold’s “The Wolverine”.
He went to Japan cause the death of Jean Grey, and there he knows his Fianceé.
The movie gets hot when (much like in the comics) Storm, Rogue, Iceman and
Colossus comes as invited by Logan. But once again, the life of a mutant like
Weapon X isn’t easy. Silver Samurai is back as Mariko's brother to get his heritage from his sister, and now he came with companies –
one of them is no one else but Lady Deathstrike.
Now, he has to save his bride, and defeat his father in law.
On this plot, Rogue gets an important role – in the comics she is the one to
save the day. And here isn’t different. Her relationship with Logan is a deep
one, and she is forced to make a hard choice to save him, his bride and the
other X-Men. Maybe it's a great oportunity to show her flying after take a little bit of Storm's power... About Logan issues, he is on a complicated situation with himself
questioning if it is possible to him have a normal life and a wife.
The movie has a little featuring of Blink (Fan BingBing) too.
On post-credits scene we see an mourning Cyclops looking to the Alkali Lake,
when Jean Gray calls him on his mind, and we se fire coming out from the water.
X-Men Apocalypse (2016)
Let this
one with Simon, Laura and Bryan? Haha. Of course, to follow this timeline, it
has to be planned to don’t make chronological mistakes!
Phoenix Rises (2016)
The
pre-opening credits scene is a distant and distopic Future.
We are presented to an half-aged man, with silver hair and scars in one of his
eyes. He’s looking for two tombs, the names are Jean Grey Summers and Scott
Summers.
He looks at the horizon, where all is destroyed and there’s explosions in every
second.
Cable turns on the machine he carries on his hand and we see the opening
credits.
When the movie really starts, Jean Grey turns back as Phoenix, with an
incredible power, but without control. She is found by an bitter and evil Emma
Frost, who was living hiding from Magneto and the X-Men, to consume her
vengeance against them and the world. In a pursuit for power, she starts over
the Hellfire Club, but now, with Jason Striker help, she tries to wake up the
Jean’s alter ego, the Dark Phoenix.
Besides this, Wolverine comes back to USA to find the Professor to understand
why he’s having nightmares with Jean. At
the same time, Cyclops returns to X-Men for the same reason. Concerned, Charles
calls Moira McTaggert and her husband, former X-Men, Banshee, to help him with
this research.
Who tries to save Jean from the Hellfire Club is the mysterious Cable, who’s
remember to her who she is and brings Phoenix to the Professor X.
When she gets crazy, they – Cable, Hellfire Club and Professor, Logan, Scott,
Moira and Banshee - have to join forces to fight against the Phoenix. All of
them are convinced that they have to kill her, but not Cable, who says he came
from the future to stop them and try to save Jean, for his body wouldn’t handle
with all Phoenix power. Is her death what let his future be so bad. The final
battle happens on San Francisco and inside Jean’s mind, where she fights herself with the
help of the Professor and Emma.
Cable is questioned about how can Jean and Scott be his parents if the Phoenix
was dead, he just say that in the future, almost all the mutants was born in
labs.
The post credits scene shows a man called Graydon Creed talking to William
Striker, who shows him his new project: The Sentinel’s Resurgence.
X-Men: Bloodlines (2017)
Located in
the past right after Apocalypse, we have here a world trying to reborn from
ashes left by the ancient mutant.
More intimate, “Bloodline” draws and defines paths to Magneto, Mystique,
Nightcrawler, Wanda and Quicksilver, introducing Graydon Creed as a young and
hateful anti mutant activist. Son of two mutants who’s left him for being
human, he creates the Friends of Humanity, a separatist group that gets some
influence to government.
After the death of their mother and sister – what was Magneto’s fault – Peter
and Wanda Maximoff break up relationships with their father, at the same time
that Nightcrawler discovers his real relationship with Mystique.
Magneto, Mystique and Sabretooth builds a plan to destroy the Friends of
Humanity, hiding the real intent of Magneto to show the Homo Sapiens who really
owns the world.
The familiar battle happens because Peter, Wanda e Nightcrawler come together
to stop their parents, at the same time that tries to convince the Friends of
Humanity, that mutants are not all dangerous. Humiliated and defeated by his
own children, Magneto regrets some of his acts and recluses himself.
The post credits scene shows Creed finding the Trask Industries project of
Sentinels.
eXtinction (2017)
Years go
by.
The movie starts where DOFP ends up.
Logan wake up in a morning and discovers that his memory is completely changed.
Updated by the Professor, he discovers what changed.
But like Hank said to him, you can create ripples in the river of time, but
can’t change the path.
Mutants members of the Morlocks starts to disappear. It’s a massacre beginning.
Storm is sent with a team to investigate what is really happening, after one of
their mutants called Caliban meet her.
Cable still lives in the present cause he says that doesn’t discovered what
really starts his dark future. Then, investigating, he discovers the plans of
Creed to come back with the Sentinels. More than that: A group inside the
Friends of Humanity, called Purifiers is taking the Morlocks to the Island
called Genosha, where they’re making tests with Sentinels and Mutants.
In this conflict, Storm has his problems with Calisto, Morlock’s leader.
On a unexpected alliance between the X-Men and the Brotherhood takes them to
Genosha with the plan to destroy the Sentinel factory.
There, Professor X sacrifices himself for the X-Men, and Storm and Phoenix are
the ones who can win the battle against the Sentinels Army – that’s why Jean
couldn’t die.
The battle ends well to the mutants, but Logan, Storm and Cable see Scott
Summers going to a dangerous path of hate, cause Professor’s death. Concerned
about it, Cable starts a risky plan to save the future.
X-Men: Genesis (Brotherhood / Gambit) (2018)
In Genesis,
we see a younger Rogue running from home after almost kill her boyfriend with a
kiss and being rescued by Gambit. Both of them are recruited by Mystique, who’s
building a new Brotherhood of mutants to ends up with Senator Kelly, Trask
Industries and Friends of Humanity. We see a furious Magneto getting out of his
reclusion time, cause this mutant hate attack him on his Island.
With the Brotherhood, he plans an violent attack to the humanity;
We see the relationship between Rogue and Gambit, but they are separated when
he is threatened by Erik and she runs from them for disagree of
the attack.
On her scape, she finds Wolverine, without memory and with adamantium claws, as
we see in first movie of the franchise.
The X-Men fight against Magneto and stops him, but the seed has been thrown,
and the dark future we saw in Extinction was written.
The movie focuses on Rogue, Gambit and how the actions of the Brotherhood and
Graydon Creed takes us to the future saw in Extinction.
This movie is a joker card: It can be a Gambit solo movie, a Brotherhood Movie,
a Mystique solo movie or even an House of M (what abou it, Fox?) movie.
The post credit scene we see Xavier on mansion when Cable appears to him saying
that need his young X-Men to a life-death mission in the future.
X-Men: Battle of the Atom (2018)
Well, X-Men
cast are human, and gets old unfortunately! So this franchise has to go to an
end and pass through a real reboot. What made me think: what we do to finish
this franchise? We have seen DOFP, Apocalypse, and in our dreaming franchise we
have seen many great things.
So, why not end this thing as it starts? A risky, ambicious and big project
based on 2013’s event called “The Battle of the Atom”.
The truce between humans and mutants is always about to end, but we always have
the X-Men to save the day. But working as a narrative rhyme with DOFP, this
movie shows what happens when the leader of the Children of the Atom becomes a
villain.
After Xavier’s death, Cyclops starts to question the reasons why Professor X
insisted to find peace between mutants and humans. His choice brings him to a
darker path that makes him look like a Magneto disciple. This break apart the
X-Men. Wolverine and Storm leads one
team, and Cyclops, Jean and Emma Frost leads another, accepting even some
members of the Brotherhood.
As the only one who remembers the dark future before Days of Future Past, Logan
see them walking to the same future. Talking with an lost Cable, he is
convinced to go to the past again and save the Professor. Cable remember him
that he tried it once, and now they must face the future, not change the past.
In a risky plan that can makes the reality have a break, he travels to the past
and bring the young X-Men to face their older versions, as we saw happening in
DOFP.
Knowing that anything could destroy their present, Cyclops will see himself in
a battlethat he never was prepared for.
This movie is definitely of Cyclops and his thoughts.
(and could generate an X-Force spin off based on Wolverine’s team).
In the end, the younger X-Men turns back to the past, and Professor erase their
future travel from their minds. And we see an bittersweet ending for this saga,
who opens again the gate for another actors and another cinematographic
universe for my favorite heroes!
