X-MEN: APOCALYPSE Poster and Quotes From Cast & Crew
Here's a new poster for X-Men: Apocalypse, which shows Oscar Isaac's title villain gazing into the eyes of a skull while he's crushing it.
By now I'm sure you've seen the trailer that debuted this morning, and as much as I want to like it, I have to admit that this movie looks terrible. I really enjoyed Days of Future Past because of the way they blended the old and young versions of the main characters, but I don't know if they're going to be able to top that. The continuity in these films is blown to hell, and while the idea of Isaac as Apocalypse is great, the execution (at least as depicted in the trailer) has me questioning why they'd even want to get an excellent actor like him if THAT is what Apocalypse is going to be like. And by the time the trailer descends into the same "huge city gets destroyed" shots at the end, it had completely lost me.
But enough about my thoughts. EW has a full report from the set of the film, and if you're excited about the movie, the whole thing is worth a read. I'll pull out some of the most interesting quotes for you below:
“The problem with Days of Future Past is it’s hard to sequelize,” says writer-producer Simon Kinberg, who’s been with the franchise since 2006. “Whenever we talked about the sequel, the challenge was that it needed to feel not necessarily bigger visually, but that the stakes needed to feel bigger.” So not only does Apocalypse want to destroy the world — pretty big stakes — but the film that contains his name will serve as a pivot point in the series, shifting the focus toward younger versions of classic characters such as Storm, Jean Grey (Game of Thrones’ Sophie Turner), and Cyclops (Tye Sheridan). “This is kind of the introduction to them,” says director Bryan Singer, returning for his fourth X-Men movie. “At the same time, it has concluding aspects of those previous stories.”
Let's run through a quick "where are they now" with the three main characters:
Magneto
“He’s fallen in love and he’s basically left his metal ways behind,” Fassbender says. Pretty quickly, though, his world is shattered and “normal” is no longer an option. “Apocalypse finds Erik at a low ebb and recruits him,” Fassbender says.
Mystique
Miles away, meanwhile, Raven is on her own, helping rescue mutants who are oppressed or enslaved, including the teleport Nightcrawler (Kodi Smit-McPhee). Raven knows nothing about Apocalypse, Lawrence says, but “she hears about what happened to Erik and she wants to seek him out and help him.”
Charles
“He’s not teaching anybody how to fight at the moment,” McAvoy says. “He’s teaching people how to control their abilities so that they can work at a bank. But of course this movie challenges all of that.”
The one aspect of the film that I am admittedly a little curious about, and that's Oscar Isaac's quote about its climax:
“That last battle is going to be pretty insane. I mean, it’s like freaking Apocalypse fighting all of the X-Men. It’s pretty cool.”
There's more in the full interview, including Lawrence's thoughts on returning for another sequel. X-Men: Apocalypse hits theaters on May 27th, 2016.