Simon Kinberg Confirms Plan For DEADPOOL, GAMBIT, and X-MEN Crossover

After the disastrous box office performance of Fantastic Four, it's not too surprising that writer/producer Simon Kinberg said that film's characters live in a parallel universe to the much more successful X-Men. But just because a crossover between those two properties seems unlikely at this point doesn't mean Kinberg has entirely given up on the idea of crossovers.

In an interview with MTV, he confirmed plans for there to be "interplay" between characters like Deadpool, Gambit, and the X-Men moving forward in the new continuity they created in X-Men: Days of Future Past:

“The idea is that we’ve sort of reset the timeline after ’Days of Future Past’ in some ways, and if not erased, certainly allowed for change from ’X1,’ ’2,’ ’3,’ everything from ’Days of Future Past’ forward, 1973, everything we set now becomes canon,” he said. “So the ’Gambit’ movie, the ’Deadpool’ movie, will exist in a world that acknowledges whatever happened in ’Days of Future Past’ and moving forward. Doesn’t mean they’ll always interact with those characters, obviously, it’s not like every movie has all the characters, but they all have to exist within the same rules.”

“There will be interplay between different characters in different movies.”

So how does he keep it all straight?

“I don’t have it up on a wall, but I have it on my computer, and I have it sort of tattooed on my brain now too,” Kinberg said. “Nothing external, so that if I get knocked over the head, no one can read it. It’s literally behind my eyelids. But yeah, we have a clear sense of the directions we want to take them in and in my my mind at least, how we could start to cross-pollinate sort of with those characters that have their standalone movies.”

Notice how he doesn't mention the Fantastic Four characters at all? I don't think that's an accident. I'm convinced that the film underperformed so badly that Kinberg and the other writers associated with the X-Men franchise aren't willing to risk incorporating them into a crossover just yet. That could still end up happening down the line, though, because despite all of that, he's somehow still showing interest in a Fantastic Four sequel. In the meantime, though, fans can get excited about the possibilities of seeing Deadpool, Gambit, and the X-Men eventually share the screen.