Unlike other franchises, the X-Men movies haven’t been released entirely in chronological order. But to make matters even more confusing, X-Men: Days of Future Past created an alternate timeline which wiped out the events of some of the films. So if you want to see all the X-Men movies (we’re skipping Deadpool since he’s very much his own entity and makes fun of the timeline’s inconsistencies), just what order should you watch them in before seeing X-Men: Dark Phoenix? It’s certainly less confusing to watch the original timeline chronologically, before doing the same with the alternate timeline. Related articles X-Men Dark Phoenix cast, plot: Sophie Turner takes centre stage X-Men Dark Phoenix: Is Dark Phoenix the MOST POWERFUL mutant? Original timeline: X-Men: First Class (2011) – set in 1962X-Men: Origins Wolverine (2009) – set in 1979X-Men (2000) – set in 2003X2 (2003) – set in 2003X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) – set in 2006The Wolverine (2013) – set in 2006X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) – set in original 2023, but time travel back to 1973 and Wolverine waking up in alternate 2023 And it’s here where everything changes, as the 2023 original timeline X-Men decide to change the past in 1973 so that a post-apocalyptic future never occurs – thus creating an alternate timeline from 1973 onwards. X-Men Dark Phoenix: The least confusing X-Men movie viewing order (Image: FOX) The noughties X-Men trilogy in the original timeline is where to start, even though post-prequels (Image: FOX) Alternate timeline: X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) – set in original 2023, but time travel back to 1973 and Wolverine waking up in alternate 2023X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) – set in 1983X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019) – set in 1992Logan (2017) – set in 2029 Related articles X-Men 5: What’s the future of the X-Men franchise after Dark Phoenix? X-Men Dark Phoenix timeline EXPLAINED: Is Dark Phoenix in the past? Most of the X-Men prequels occur in the alternate timeline (Image: FOX) In a recent interview, Dark Phoenix director Simon Kinberg confirmed that the latest film would honour the ending of Days of Future Past. He told Screen Rant: “I have some sense of it, yes, because I always feel as though I'm sort of responsible for the architecture of this and making sure that it all lines up. “So I do have some sense of it, but I really did imagine this movie, in truth, as the culmination of this cycle of X-Men films and so I wasn't really thinking past this film other than wanting to make sure that the logic was all sound. “I actually would say that the Dark Phoenix idea was set up in the end of Days of Future Past.”All rights reserved for this news site express.co.uk and under his responsibility