X-Men: Apocalypse To Be Longer Than Most X-Men Movies, Includes A Homage At End

It's the 20th anniversary of Usual Suspects and director Bryan Singer attended a special screening of it at the 4th annual San Pedro International Film Festival. During the event, Singer told the audience that he looks forward to making smaller films one day but for the foreseeable future he plans to continue making high-profile films since because he is one of the few directors in Hollywood that has the clout to get a big-budget film green-lit.

His latest big-budget spectacular is X-Men: Apocalypse, which is currently being edited and the special effects are being polished in post-production. Even though a final cut is a ways off, Singer believes X-Men: Apocalypse will probably clock in as one of, if not, the longest X-Men film.

"Usually they're about two hours, but I might let this one be longer," he said. "There's even an homage at the end — it's going to get spoiled because they decided to use it in the trailer, which comes out in, like, six months — but it's kind of a wrap-up of the six movies."

X-Men run times: 2000's X-Men had a 104-minute running time, 2003's X2 was 134-minutes long, 2006's X3 clocked in at 104-minutes, 2011's X-Men: First Class came in at 132-minutes and X-Men: Days of Future Past finished up at 131-minutes.

(via Variety)

X-Men: Apocalypse is being directed by Bryan Singer (X-Men: Days of Future Past), based on a script written by Simon Kinberg (Fantastic Four). The cast includes Jennifer Lawrence, Olivia Munn, Rose Byrne, Michael Fassbender, Sophie Turner, Oscar Isaac, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Nicholas Hoult, Evan Peters, James McAvoy, Tye Sheridan, Alexandra Shipp, Lucas Till, Ben Hardy, Josh Helman and Lana Condor.

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