What a cop-out. I didn't exactly love the earlier X-Men films either, but now I can't really watch them without thinking, "Oh wait, this didn't actually happen now".

I kind of like the sound of this since it means Jean and Scott can come back after what happened to them in the Last Stand but there's only one problem...it kind of means that they would have to try and keep the same actors going with their roles in future films.

Sure they could replace them, it's easy enough to but whats the point "rebooting" the universe when they could of just rebooted it altogether and have a brand new cast of actors.

It's going to seem weird if, for example, Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart stay on as Wolverine and Professor X for one or two more films but someone like Famke Janssen or Halle Berry are recast in their roles, then you could have it that if Hugh Jackman is recast and Patrick Stewart decides to stay on longer, your going to have one film where you have the original two together then the next it's a totally different actor alongside Patrick Stewart.

It's just going to look weird seeing different actors appear with one another for future films, as the actors come and go.

I mean can you imagine if, for example, Robert Downey Jr was recast in Avengers 4 but the other actors stay on, the new actor would look out of place with the old actors....if you get what I mean.

Best thing to do in my opinion is just make X men Apocalypse the last film in the universe and reboot it altogether with a brand new cast of characters.

Hopefully after X-men Apocalypse they will do a trilogy of the Phoenix saga...but do it properly. It's not something you can condense into one film. I would want to see it where by the third film Jean becomes the White Phoenix.

Question though

Would this mean the whole Weapon X program never happened to Wolverine or would things just happen differently. Hell I wonder if Wolverine will remember the old timeline in the films future.

Great! Or is it? One of the worst sinners of being unauthentic to the Marvel Comics was First Class, but it looks as though that movie is considered a part of this "new" film series. Yeah the 3 X Men movies were not perfect, but First Class with its rearranging of sibling ages for a certain pair of brothers, and making the whole "Professor X and Mageneto working together at the school for the gifted" last a couple of weeks really made me cringe.

I was honestly always looking forward to a film representation of Days of future past and Age of Apocalypse because they are 2 of the most famous stories from the X Men marvel universe, but now that they look to be re-imaginings... not so much.

First Class was just that, classy and well told. Synger has a bizarre tinge to his movies. I cant quite put my finger on it. Nothing he does is spectacular, or memorable, hes been given every opportunity and hes squandered it. For him to come back to X-men is a failure in my eyes.
Let's see what he can do now that he had to beg and steal to get his directors chair back.
Knowing hes using the First Class cast made me cringe, I felt he tainted them.
I used to like him, but everything after Usual Suspects is utter crap. With exception to Valkyrie, which somehow just didn't appeal to general public. Maybe cause the cast play Nazis?

Well I appreciate what First Class has done but no amount of reboots can fix what Wolverine: Origins did. That movie was an abomination and proof that FOX shouldn't have anything to do with X-men.

I would rather see a complete reboot as in give the rights back to Marvel (and Disney now).