How the Amazing Quicksilver Rescue was Created in X-Men: Apocalypse
Arguably the best scene in the new X-Men: Apocalypse was the stunning sequence in which Quicksilver (Evan Peters) arrives at Xavier's School for Gifted Children. For those of you who haven't seen the film, you can stop reading now. For those of you who have, you can also check out our spoiler-free review here.
Quicksilver's big scene comes rather early on in the film (as it did in
X-Men: Apocalypse Spoiler-Free Review
Let's talk about X-Men: Apocalypse. We'll do this without any major spoilers. A few minor reveals might seep in here and there, but nothing that's going to really surprise anyone who's been paying attention to run-up to Bryan Singer's latest installment.
Let's begin with your title villain.
Oscar Isaac is Apocalypse. Courtesy Twentieth Century Fox.
Much has been made about the wisdom of slathering beloved Oscar Isaac in enough prosthetics,
Chatting With X-Men: Apocalypse‘s Composer, Editor & Co-Producer John Ottman
John Ottman is a very busy guy. He was composer, editor, and co-producer of X-Men: Apocalypse, which he describes as “running the store.” But that’s not all – he also composed the score for another film opening this month, The Nice Guys, starring Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling and written and directed by Shane Black. Somehow, he managed to find a few minutes to chat about both projects.
Join Xavier’s School for Gifted Children in This Retro Recruitment Video
Oh, Charles Xavier—what would the world's tenderhearted mutant children do without you and your beloved school? Ostracized by their non-mutant classmates, misunderstood (and often feared) by their own parents and siblings, and viewed with suspicion by the general public, these kids needed someone who understood them, and some place they could feel safe (and grow into the finest fighting unit this side of the Delta Force). In this fairly perfectly realized retro recruitment video, dated 1983,
Magneto Gets Mean in New X-Men: Apocalypse Clip
Bow down, mortals: this new X-Men: Apocalypse clip features sometime good guy/mostly seriously bad guy Erik Lehnsherr (Michael Fassbender) revealing himself as Magneto, the metal bending mutant who has been torturing poor Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) ever since they became frenemies.
If you know anything about Erik Lehnsherr, it's that his transformation into a bad guy is weighted by history; his parents were ripped from him during the Holocaust, and his anger,
Professor X Welcomes Home Raven (But She’s Not Having It)
What we know about the relationship between Raven (Jennifer Lawrence) and Professor X (James McAvoy) is that he's always trying to get her to see humans in the same hopeful light he does, but she ends up sounding like a certain someone when she rejects humanity's potential for goodness; Magneto (Michael Fassbender). As you'll remember from Days of Future Past, one of Xavier's longstanding goals is recruiting Raven (when she's being bad, she goes by Mystique) to his side of the human-mutant divide.
Watch James McAvoy Become Professor X
Some roles require more than just an emotional and spiritual transformation—some call for both an electric and a straight razor. Up until now, James McAvoy's turn as Professor X has never required the actor to lose his luscious locks, as his young Charles Xavier still had hair in X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Days of Future Past (he also had something of a drug problem).
X-Men: Apocalypse – Becoming Cyclops
So how did Scott Summers become Cyclops? In X-Men: Apocalypse we get to meet a lot of the most iconic mutants as they're just blossoming (or mutating, as it were). For Scott Summers (Tye Sheridan), as it's been for many mutants, his transition is pretty brutal.
If you remember some mutant origin stories from the past, they're typically hideously traumatic. Rogue just wanted to kiss her boyfriend, and in doing so she put him in a coma.
It’s a Mutant Cage Match in new X-Men: Apocalypse Clip
One of the most memorable scenes in X-Men film history is one of the first—Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) fights a cage match as a young girl (who turns out to be Rogue) watches him break a much larger man's hand when their fists collide. Obviously, his opponent wasn't aware that this cigar chomping lunatic with the funny hair had bones made of adamantium.
In this new clip from X-Men: Apocalypse,
X-Men: Apocalypse—Storm’s a Force of Nature
Alexandra Shipp plays the young storm in X-Men: Apocalypse, yet unlike Halle Berry's version of the character in previous X-Men films, here Storm is a force of nature for evil. In fact, her powers in Apocalypse are the most potent they've ever been, having been given a boost by the film's eponymous villain, Apocalypse, played by Oscar Isaac.
Storm's first appearance in a Marvel comic was 1976's "X-Men #102,"
The History of Apocalypse Revealed in new X-Men: Apocalypse Featurette
20th Century Fox has released a much deeper dive into the back story of the big baddie in X-Men: Apocalypse. One of the many interesting reveals of this featurette is that Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac) is said to have brought civiliazation to mankind. This comes straight from director Bryan Singer, who goes on to explain that in giving the world civilization, Apocalypse felt that he was humanity's rightful God. Clearly, things didn't work out that way,
Tour the X-Mansion in a new X-Men: Apocalypse Video
We've shared the first clip from X-Men: Apocalypse, and now 20th Century Fox has released a new behind-the-scenes look at the X-Mansion. Production designer Grant Major, supervising art director Michele Laliberte, art director Veronique Meunier, director Bryan Singer and a few of the film's stars discuss why the X-Mansion is so critical to the film, and how in Apocalypse, it's bigger and better than ever. Just take one look at the jet hangar in the basement of the X-Mansion (and the runway that's entirely lit up) and you'll see that this is not your father's X-Mansion.
Watch the 1st Clip From X-Men: Apocalypse
The first X-Men Apocalypse clip has arrived, and it features the return of Rose Byrne’s Moira MacTaggert giving Professor X (James McAvoy) the low down on some seriously disturbing information. MacTaggert reveals that her work has been focused on tracking down a certain all-powerful mutant. Further, if the stories are too be believed, MacTaggert explains that this original mutant, Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac), was said to have recruited four super mutants to help aid him in his quest for world domination.
Enter Wolverine: Final Trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse
The moment you X-Men fans were hoping for has arrived; Wolverine makes his appearance in this final trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse. There's a ton of new footage here to parse, and with the timeline scrambled so thoroughly in director Bryan Singer's X-Men: Days of Future Past, it's hard to predict just where our favorite characters like Wolverine are going to end up by the time Apocalypse
3 New TV Spots Tease More Footage for X-Men: Apocalypse
Batman v Superman had a partnership with Turkish Airlines that resulted in these clever ads, and now X-Men: Apocalypse has a similar relationship that has yielded brand new footage from their film. The company they've partnered with is realty firm Coldwell Banker, which has taken a specific interest in easily the most high-tech mansion on the planet—Professor Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, or the X-Mansion. In the third TV spot,
This new X-Men: Apocalypse Clip Explores Mystery of En Sabah Nur
The central premise in X-Men: Apocalypse is that the very first mutant (your titular Apocalypse, played by Oscar Isaac) is also the most powerful, and now that he's awoken, he's gathering his four horsemen (four powerful mutants whose abilities increase exponentially under Apocalypse's care) and planning on tearing apart the world so it can be rebuilt with mutants in their rightful spot atop the food chain.
In this new clip released by 20th Century Fox,
Four Horsemen Revealed in X-Men: Apocalypse Featurette
We've seen Batman fight Superman, and soon we'll watch as Team Captain America take on Team Iron Man in Civil War, but perhaps the biggest, and most destructive, superhero battle of all will take place in X-Men: Apocalypse. In this new featurette released by 20th Century Fox, we meet Apocalypse's (Oscar Isaac) four horsemen—the mutants he's chosen to help him wipe out humanity and create a new world order.
New International Trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse Teases Biggest Mutant Battle Yet
This new X-Men: Apocalypse international trailer, arriving from Portugal, once again reinforces the notion that Apocalypse will likely be the biggest mutant adventure yet, closing out the trilogy that began promisingly with X-Men: First Class and carried on, spectacularly, with X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Here's what we know thus far—director Bryan Singer is introducing us to the titular villain as the most powerful mutant of them all.
The New X-Men: Apocalypse Trailer is Epic
The new X-Men: Apocalypsetrailer just released by 20th Century Fox shows, for the first time, the new (and hopefully improved, for their sake) X-Men team since the excellent X-Men: Days of Future Past completely changed the timeline. Once again, the X-Men are faced with a seemingly insurmountable enemy in the titular mutant Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac), whose powers seem an order of magnitude more powerful than any of the X-Men, or any other mutant,
Super Bowl 50: X-Men: Apocalypse Spot
X-Men: Apocalypse got in on the Super Bowl ad extravaganza in a big, scary way. In what appears to be the biggest, boldest X-Men movie yet, director Bryan Singer and titular villain Oscar Isaac are bringing the pain in this appropriately apocalyptic Super Bowl spot.
Pitting the ancient mutant Apocalypse against the younger versions of our favorite X-men, including Sophie Turner as Jean Grey, Tye Sheridan as Cyclops, and Alexandra Shipp as Storm, X-Men Apocalypse follows the theme of a lot of the major superhero films this year,
