This continues a trend of each movie being set a decade apart, with 2011’s X-Men: First Class set in the early 1960s and 2014’s X-Men: Days of Future Past set in the 1970s.
Back in November, rumors surfaced that director Bryan Singer will be returning to Montreal, where he shot X-Men: Days of Future Past and X-Men: Apocalypse, to shoot an unspecified X-Men movie in 2017, with 20th Century Fox planning a 2018 release date.
After X-Men: Apocalypse debuts, we know the studio is developing The New Mutants spinoff, with production set to begin later this year on Gambit.
X-Men: Days of Future Past essentially created a new present day timeline, which brought Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) back to life.