In addition, solo movies like Deadpool and Logan — though they have elements from the X-Men movies — largely exist in separate realms from the linked X-Men team movies.
Today, X-Men producer Simon Kinberg confirmed a major link between Logan and X-Men: Apocalypse, and it creates intriguing avenues for future stories.
The X-Men cinematic continuity is … let’s just say, “Fluid.”
The events of Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past resulted in a massive wiping away of events that we had seen established on screen, allowing new stories to be told that were freed from a pre-existing timeline.