Bryan Singer On Potential Deadpool X-Men Movie Crossover

Director Bryan Singer has been overseeing Marvel's mutants on the big screen for the better part of 16 years, and is set to deliver the ninth film in the franchise, X-Men: Apocalypse, this month. However, Apocalypse will be the second X-Men film to hit theaters in 2016, following the R-rated and incredibly successful Deadpool.

While the success of Deadpool as a solo character may make a crossover with the core films seem inevitable, Singer explains that the tonal difference between the two film series makes it a delicate situation to consider.

"If you take a character as irreverent and meta as Deadpool and connect him to something as grounded and serious as X-Men, you have to do it carefully and gently," Singer tells Variety. "When you drop them all in together it can be a disaster. That has to be done delicately, but there's plenty of room to do it."

One way to facilitate such a crossover would be in the much talked about X-Force movie. Several characters from X-Men: Apocalypse, including Psylocke, Angel, and Wolverine, fought alongside Deadpool as part of one popular version of the team. Deadpool 2 will also introduce X-Force's founder, Cable, to the X-Men cinematic universe.

With the next X-Men movie being set in the 1990s, perhaps Deadpool will just have to wait for the X-Men to catch up to him chronologically before a proper crossover can take place.

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