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X-Men: Days of Future Past director Bryan Singer has dropped a mysterious hint on Twitter today, seemingly implying that an X-Men film called and/or featuring the villain Apocalypse is in the works for 2016.The tweet simply says "#Xmen #Apocalypse 2016!" Box Office Mojo quickly followed up the tweet with a report stating that 20th Century Fox has scheduled X-Men: Apocalypse for May 27, 2016, which puts it some two years after DOFP's release.Apocalypse, of course, is a major villain from the comics. He first showed up in the classic X-Factor run in the 1980s which reunited the original five X-Men (the original five from the comics, that is) -- Cyclops, Jean Grey, Angel, Beast, and Iceman. Created by Louise and Walt Simonson, the villain became a staple of the X-world, eventually leading to the famed alternate-universe storyline Age of Apocalypse. How this all ties into where Days of Future Past ends remains to be seen, but it's not hard to imagine that film's time-travel story somehow resulting in an altered reality for our characters. Get to speculatin', people!Of course, a third solo Wolverine movie is also in the works, though it's unclear where that film will fit in Fox's release schedule. Could we wind up with two X-Men movies in 2016? The mind reels.

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