X-Men: Apocalypse director finally explains the movie timeline

Apparently, the upcoming addition to the X-Men movie series will not bring us to the first movie. In fact, all of the people that are alive in the film that started the series that started in 2000 with Patrick Stewart might not survive X-Men: Apocalypse… and it's all because of X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Towards the end of Days of Future Past, a ton of characters were resurrected that should have been dead, which basically nullified everything from the original X-Men trilogy.

There's a reason for the this and we finally know why. Director Bryan Singer and producer Simon Kinberg have finally explained how Apocalypse links in to the series.

“[Apocalypse is] not leading necessarily toward exactly where we found Patrick Stewart and the X-Men at the beginning of X-Men 1," explained producer Simon Kinberg to Collider (via GamesRadar). "There are some things that lead in that general direction, that was part of the philosophy we had at the end of Days of Future Past, is that you can’t fully change the course or current of the river, but you can just divert it a little bit, and we diverted it a little bit. So some things will be surprises; people could die that were alive in X-Men 1, 2 and 3,or people could survive that died during 1, 2 and 3.”

At this point in the explanation, director Bryan Singer picked up on the river analogy to explain how Days of Future past messed things up.

“What happens when you use Days of Future Past to erase movies like X1, 2 and 3, yes you can erase those events that occurred, but I also was very adamant about having what we call ‘The Tivo Scene.’ The scene in that room with all the video cameras in Days of Future Past. ‘I developed this piece of technology that records television;’ the point is time’s immutability. The idea that time is like a river. You can splash it and mess it up and throw rocks in it and shatter it but it eventually kind of coalesces and this is, again, quantum physics theory.”

So… Anything goes in Apocalypse.