Set after X-Men: Days of Future Past, En Sabah Nur, the first mutant, awakens after thousands of years. Disillusioned with the world as he finds it, he recruits a team of mutants to cleanse mankind and create a new world order, over which he will reign. Raven, with the help of Professor X, must lead the X-Men to stop Apocalypse and save mankind from destruction.[55]In December 2013, Singer announced the upcoming X-Men film, titled X-Men: Apocalypse, a sequel to X-Men: Days of Future Past. Directed by Singer from a script by Simon Kinberg, Dan Harris and Michael Dougherty, the film was said to focus on the origin of the mutants.[56][57] Kinberg said that it would take place in 1983 and complete a trilogy that began with X-Men: First Class.[58][59] Principal photography began in April 2015 in Montreal, Canada, and ended in August.[60][61] The film was released on May 27, 2016, in North America.[62]
