Director Bryan Singer Explains Plot Twist In X-Men: Days of Future Past

In a post on Instagram, director Bryan Singer attempted to explain a plot twist in X-Men: Days of Future Past, which seemed to set up X-Men: Apocalypse later on.

In the film, Wolverine is impaled by Magneto and thrown to the bottom of the ocean, presumably left to drown. He’s eventually saved by William Stryker, leaving everyone to assume that he would soon get his adamantium skeleton. Instead, Stryker’s eyes flashed yellow, revealing that it was really Mystique. This wasn’t followed-up on in Apocalypse, because Wolverine’s cameo shows that he has ended up in the Weapon X program after all.

Singer wrote:

Cast of #Xmen #xmendaysoffuturepast In our mini theater. I caught your question on #reddit I have to be honest, the idea to have #stryker ’s eyes turn yellow was added to the film very close to its completion. However I ended up liking it because it showed #mystique ’s path of secretly helping mutants. In that case #wolverine It is a path that continues into #xmenapocalypse

A post shared by Bryan Singer (@bryanjaysinger) on Jul 2, 2018 at 3:23pm PDT