Sophie Turner Reveals a New X-Men Movie (Are You Surprised?)

We have entered an unusual phase in the X-Men franchise, a phase when the least interesting films  in it are the ones with the words “X-Men” in them. Movies like Deadpool and Logan are filling fans with curiosity and wonder, off-beat television shows like Legion are turning heads, and yet last year’s X-Men: Apocalypse was considered one of the worst in the series and now, almost a year later, we suddenly seem to have noticed that Fox never officially announced the next official “X-Men” installment.

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But that doesn’t mean Fox is done with X-Men movies, nor does it mean – as many of us have hoped – that the studio is going to just admit that these films are built on a shaky foundation, and decide to reboot them altogether. Indeed, as of today we now know that plans are indeed underway to make a proper sequel to X-Men: Apocalypse, because series co-star Sophie Turner has said that she’s scheduled to start shooting it later this year.

“We’re about to start shooting the next X-Men, Sophie Turner told HeyUGuys. “We’ve just finished shooting Season 7 of [Game of] Thrones, and I’ve got a couple of movies to do before X-Men starts. And then we go on to Season 8.”

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Those are not uncertain terms. And while yes, plans change and even highly anticipated movies get scuttled shortly before production begins, the X-Men movies are one of the frilliest feathers in 20th Century Fox’s cap. This is probably going down.

The most recent films in the X-Men series have been catching up to the present day, decade by decade. X-Men: First Class took place in the 1960s, X-Men: Days of Future Past (mostly) took place in the 1970s, and X-Men: Apocalypse took place in the 1980s. The next film, as yet untitled, is expected to take place in the 1990s and – if it follows through on the promises of X-Men: Apocalypse (which is no guarantee in a series with as many plot holes and continuity errors as this one) – would likely focus on the “Dark Phoenix Saga,” in which Sophie Turner’s character Jean Grey becomes all-powerful and destructive. (Which is, of course, a plot point the series previously covered in X-Men: The Last Stand.)

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William Bibbiani (everyone calls him ‘Bibbs’) is Crave’s film content editor and critic. You can hear him every week on The B-Movies Podcast and Canceled Too Soon, and watch him on the weekly YouTube series What the Flick. Follow his rantings on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani.

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