X-Men: Days of Future Past and X-Men: Apocalypse writer Simon Kinsberg has confirmed that it's very unlikely we'll be seeing the original X-Men cast anytime soon.

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In a Q&A on Yahoo , Kinsberg reaffirmed that Apocalypse will focus on the First Class cast, and if any of the characters from the original trilogy were to appear, they'd have to be recast."If we included some of the original X-Men like Storm and Jean and Scott and other in Apocalypse, yeah we'd have to recast them, as Apocalypse takes place a good twenty years before [the first] X-Men, which was now, insanely, a good ten to fifteen years ago."It would be really hard to do. Halle (Berry) and Famke (Janssen) and Jimmy (Marsden) and others have done such wonderful jobs of bringing those parts to life, and are so identified with those parts now. So it would be a tall task. But I also would have said before First Class that there would be no actors who can stand alongside Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart."The quote, while unsurprising, is at odds with an interview earlier on in the year, where Kinsberg said Apocalypse "will certainly have some of the original cast involved, too." We can only presume that he's either rethought that idea, or that he's talking about the original characters, not the actual actors playing them.X-Men: Apocalypse is due to hit theaters May 27, 2016. It was recently revealed that X-Men, X2 and Days of Future Past director Bryan Singer will be back in the director's chair.

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