X-MEN: APOCALYPSE
Of gods and mutants...
ETA 19 May 216 Director Bryan Singer Sta rring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Oscar Isaac
No prizes for guessing who the villain’s going to be, then. After dealing with Nazi scientists in
First Class and killer robots in Days Of Future Past, the X-Men are set to face their scariest opponent yet in the form of Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac): the world’s first mutant, and one with god-like powers. We’ve already seen him using telekinesis to build pyramids in the post-credits sting of the last film, and that was just a warm-up.
Since no apocalypse worth the title arrives unheralded, there’ll also be four Horsemen to contend with. And while the X-Men movies aren’t slavishly beholden to the comics, it looks pretty damn likely that one of those Horsemen is gonna be Angel (Ben Hardy) – or Archangel, as he’s known once he’s been drafted on to Apocalypse’s team and given shiny new mechanical wings.
Bryan Singer, director of three previous X-Men outings (including the two best reviewed), is back behind the camera, and he’s promised big things for this movie. Set in the ’80s, it’ll see the First
Class lot return to fight off the prehistoric menace – with help from new faces Storm (Alexandra Shipp), Cyclops (Tye Sheridan), Jean Grey (Sophie Turner), Jubilee (Lana Condor), Nightcrawler (Kodi Smit-McPhee) and Psylocke (Olivia Munn).
Broader, deeper questions of the X-Men universe will also be tackled. “Apocalypse deals with ancient mutancy,” says Singer. “You’re dealing with gods and things like that. What if one survived and what if that found its way into our world?” What indeed...