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: Legacy Gage and Simon Spurrier. This is also the final issue of "X-Men: Legacy". A third volume of "X-Men: Legacy" was planned, to be written by Chris Claremont. However, that series was renamed "Nightcrawler" after its featured character. Since the introduction of "X-Men", the plotlines of this series and other X-Books have been interwoven to varying degrees. For most of its run, "X-Men" has featured a completely different battalion of X-Men than other titles featuring the X-Men. While it was not uncommon for characters of one book to appear in the other, any major stories concerning characters were dealt with in