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.
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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.
Check out when X-Men: Apocalypse and other movies are coming out in ComicBook.com’s Movie Release Schedule.
