Next X-Men Movie Will Be As Bold As Logan And Deadpool Says Writer

03/06/2017 08:59 am EST

Now that Logan has arrived in theaters, fans are wondering what's next for 20th Century Fox's X-Men franchise. Deadpool 2 will soon enter production, but what about the main X-Men series? A project being called "X-Men: Supernova" has been appearing in trades, but there's been no official word about it from the studio.

"It's not called Supernova," writer and producer Simon Kinberg clarified to SlashFilm. "One of the things we do when we make these X-Men movies, to be totally candid, is — any of these movies, it's on Star Wars, too — is you come up with fake names to throw people off the scent and when you're out making the movie, the signs that show you where the locations are say 'Nova,' or whatever the fake title is, and people figure it out, and I don't even know why we do it anymore.

"But at any rate, it's not called Supernova," he continued. "That was the code name for it. There's yet another code name now. What I can tell you is that we're in early stages of prep on it, and that it's something that Hutch [Parker] and I specifically have been talking about, as the producers of it and me as the writer of it, since post-production on Apocalypse, what the story would be and how would do something bold and radical and expand the universe in the same way that Logan feels bold and radical and certainly Deadpool does as well. And that's where we are with it."

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So clearly Kinberg is aiming high for the next X-Men movie. As for the rumors that he will be direct, Kinberg says such claims are "premature,'' but admits that directing is something he's always been interested in doing.

As to the next X-Men film's plot and the possibility of it being a movie about "The Dark Phoenix Saga," Kinberg wouldn't speak about it directly but would speak about it in relation to X-Men: The Last Stand.

"Well, I can't comment on what we're doing with this next X-Men movie, but I think a way to talk about it potentially, is to talk about X-Men: The Last Stand, and then that being a Dark Phoenix movie that we didn't get quite right. I think of maybe a few mistakes we made in that movie — and every movie has mistakes — but the main mistake we made in that movie was taking the Dark Phoenix story, which is such a vast and profound saga, and making it the subplot of the movie as opposed to the main plot of the movie. I think if we were to make a Dark Phoenix movie in the future, it would be a Dark Phoenix movie about her struggle and really should be the A plot and the primary of the movie.'

Logan is now playing in theaters.

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