With X-Men Days of Future past in screens this week – and the film featuring a tantalising post-credit sequence – talk is already turning to the next film in the franchise; namely X-Men Apocalypse

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That film hits screens May 2016, and we asked screenwriter Simon Kinberg what we should expect from his script…“The thing that we’ve spent the most time talking about is not just the visual execution of the character, which is its own challenge – creating a character that’s the most powerful I think of any mutant villain that we’ve seen in the X-Men movies so far. More powerful than Magneto. The kind of scope and scale we’re talking about is like disaster movie, extinction level event. Sort of Roland Emmerich-style moviemaking, which you’ve never seen in an X-Men movie, or any superhero movie, which I think is exciting.“But we’ve also been talking about how to give him a real emotional and philosophical underpinning. So he’s not just somebody who’s out there destroying the world because he can. What he’s doing is – in his mind – justified and validated by a real compelling, coherent philosophy. He tries to proselytise and convert people – maybe some of our most familiar characters – to come to his cause. “Disaster movie? Extinction level event? Familiar characters converting to the dark side? Consider our interest piqued, which makes it all the more frustrating that we’ve got to wait two years for this one!