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Storm, Cyclops and Jean are confirmed to return for the next "X-Men" movie, but Halle Berry, James Marsden and Famke Janssen might not be back reprising those roles. Producer/writer Simon Kinberg says that recast is imminent to find fresh faces that will portray the younger version of the three mutants.

"If we included some of the original X-Men like Storm and Jean and Scott [Summers aka Cyclops] and others in 'Apocalypse', yeah, we would have to recast them because 'Apocalypse' takes place a good 20 years before 'X1', which now insanely was 10 to 15 years ago," Kinberg explained during an interview with Yahoo!.

"It'd be very hard to do, because Halle, Famke and Jimmy and others have done such wonderful jobs of bringing those characters to life. It would be a tall task. But I also would have said before 'First Class' there would have been no way we find actors who could stand alongside Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, but I think we managed to with Michael [Fassbender] and James [McAvoy], finding their own interpretations of the characters, not doing an impersonation."

Berry, Marsden and Janssen played Storm, Cyclops and Jean Grey in the first three "X-Men" films, and returned for "X-Men: Days of Future Past" this year. In the third movie which is "X-Men: The Last Stand" in 2006, Haley Ramm played a younger version of Jean.

The upcoming movie is due in the U.S. on May 27, 2016. Bryan Singer who directed the first two installments in the franchise and then "Days of Future Past" is back behind the lens. James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Hugh Jackman, Nicholas Hoult and Evan Peters are back as Charles Xavier, Magneto, Mystique, Wolverine, Beast and Quicksilver. McAvoy once teased that his character would finally lose his hair in the next pic.

A viral video to hype up the eighth installment of the franchise has landed online. The documentary-styled footage highlights news coverage about strange occurrences across the globe over the years like sinkhole in Russia and earthquake in the U.S. The discussion among scientists turns into a debate about so-called "super homo sapiens."