Tye Sheridan is Signed To Play Cyclops in Two More X-MEN Sequels After APOCALYPSE

What does the future of the X-Men film franchise look like after X-Men: Apocalypse? For a while, it sounded like that would be Jennifer Lawrence's last movie as Mystique, but more recently she said she was "dying" to come back for more movies (and James McAvoy is game, too). While it's still unclear exactly which veteran actors will return for future adventures, we've heard that the next X-Men movie after Apocalypse might center on Jean Grey's Dark Phoenix saga, meaning that Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner is coming back for more movies. Now we know at least one more actor is signed for multiple films, because EW revealed that Tye Sheridan — the young actor playing Cyclops in Apocalypse — is contracted for two more sequels.

Jean Grey and Scott Summers go hand in hand, so it'd be crazy to think there'd be a Dark Phoenix movie without Cyclops being involved. But that whole Dark Phoenix thing is still a rumor at this point, and this is the first official word we've heard that any of the actors new to the X-franchise (Sheridan, Turner, Kodi Smit-McPhee, and Alexandra Shipp) are coming back for more. We all assumed they'd be around for a while, but now we know that's the studio's plan. There's been some talk about Apocalypse and Wolverine 3 being the end of Bryan Singer's X-Men movie-verse, but it seems like 20th Century Fox is still interested in keeping the franchise alive and moving it forward, even if some of the original cast members are eventually phased out.