X-Men Movies Long-Term Plan Similar To Star Wars

Simon Kinberg is a producer with his hand on a lot of major projects, including Fox’s X-Men films and parts of Disney’s Star Wars franchise.

The X-Men films will have their biggest year yet in 2016, with 3 films slated for release. Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, Kinberg compared the X-Men films’ future to the current state of the Star Wars movies, equating the “saga” films to core X-Men films like Apocalypse and the “Star Wars Story” films like Rogue One to solo spinoffs Deadpool and Gambit.

We want to keep making them. Obviously, part of what we’re doing now is stand-alone movies with new characters. So we have the Deadpool movie [Feb. 12], we’re doing a Gambit movie [seeking a director]. We’re doing another Wolverine. And then we have the mainline X-Men movies with Professor X, Magneto, Mystique, Beast that we started with First Class, Days of Future Past, Apocalypse. I would love to keep making movies with that cast. It’s almost like the way the Star Wars movies now are. The Episodes are the mainline movies, and then you have the stand-alone movies. The X-Men flagship is [Michael] Fassbender, [James] McAvoy, Jen [Lawrence] and Nick Hoult, and then we have the stand-alone movies.

Check out when these and other movies are coming out in ComicBook.com’s Movie Release Schedule.