X-Men director explains what went wrong with Apocalypse

Photo credit: 20th Century Fox
Photo credit: 20th Century Fox

From Digital Spy

While it ended-up a box office success, X-Men: Apocalypse received less-than-favourable reviews from critics when it was released last year.

While everyone's no doubt hoping that the next movie in the franchise, Dark Phoenix, will get the series back on the right track, the last movie's writer/co-producer Simon Kinberg has been opening up about what he thinks went wrong with Apocalypse.

"I think we took our eye off what has always been the bedrock of the franchise which is these characters," he told Entertainment Weekly.

Simon, who convinced Jennifer Lawrence to reprise her role as Mystique in the upcoming movie, added; "It became about global destruction and visual effects over emotion and character."

Photo credit: Fox
Photo credit: Fox

Producer Hutch Parker also chimed on on what went wrong, telling the outlet: "It's always dangerous if your script is evolving while you're shooting.

"Certainly, in hindsight, we all feel like the genre has been evolving aesthetically and tonally and that the film didn't. There's a lot that I think is very good in the film but, as a whole, it was struggling to find ways to coalesce, narratively emotionally and in terms of plot.

"Aesthetically, it felt sort of dated relative to an evolution you were seeing play out everywhere else. We learned a lot from that."