Part of the way I think this films stop being fresh (these films being franchise comic book movies) is when you find yourself making essentially a television series with $200 million episodes where you’re literally just picking up where the last one left off and you’re making a mini-series.
There’s an epilogue scene in Days of Future Past which is 2024, or 2023, something like that.
My goal was real simple: it was to pick a time where I had enough elbow room that I was clear of existing entanglements.
Then, it’s impossible to do something fresh, meaning essentially you’re just a director on the 14th episode of a television show picking up where the last one left off and people are going to be really startled by any discontinuity or changes.