X-Men: Apocalypse announced that Singer would direct the film. Singer has called the film "kind of a conclusion of six X-Men films, yet a potential rebirth of younger, newer characters" and the "true birth of the X-Men". Singer said that Apocalypse is the main focus of the film. Kinberg said that the younger versions of Scott Summers, Storm, and Jean Grey appearing in the film are "as much a part of the film as the main cast". He described Summers as "not yet the squeaky-clean leader", Storm as a "troubled character who is going down the wrong path in life", and Grey
X-Men: Messiah Complex remain trapped in the future. Additionally, two of Madrox's duplicates were sent into future alternate realities. One duplicate traveled into the future with Miller and found himself in Bishop's future. The other duplicate returned as an X-Factor character with the ability to possess others using techno-organic abilities named Cortex. New X-Men (formerly New X-Men: Academy X): A new series, titled "Young X-Men", debuted in April 2008 with Marc Guggenheim as the writer and Yanick Paquette as the artist and will replace the "New X-Men" series, which was cancelled with issue #46 in January 2008. The team consisted of Dust, Rockslide,