X-MEN: APOCALYPSE - Villain Power, Four Horsemen Recruitment and Apocalypse Meeting Professor X Teased



You've seen how Apocalypse looks in next year's X-MEN: APOCALYPSE — even though most fans don't seem to like his look — but you still haven't seen him in action or heard him speak yet. Until this is revealed down the road there will be lots of teases about Apocalypse.

[Please note that some of the following information could be considered spoiler-y but it has been both published in print and posted online by EW.]

Actor Oscar Isaac is playing the title villain and he spoke to Entertainment Weekly about the power of Apocalypse.

"He’s believed to be the first mutant... He is the ­creative-slash-destructive force of this earth. When things start to go awry, or when things seem like they’re not moving towards evolution, he destroys those civilizations."

EW continued to tease Apocalypse and his recruitment of his Four Horsemen.

" [Apocalypse] awakens from his Egyptian tomb, sizes up the global ’80s vibe, and decides he’s not down with the Reagan era. 'It’s a chaotic world of conflict and war and destruction,' Singer says. 'It’s one giant civilization that now requires one giant culling. That’s why he needs ­special assistants in this process.' He finds teenage Storm living on the streets in Cairo, Angel (Ben Hardy) duking it out in a fight club in Berlin, and Psylocke (Olivia Munn) working behind the Iron Curtain for the mutant-broker Caliban. But his big get is Erik, who has been attempting to live a 'normal' life in Poland. '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. Says Fassbender, 'Apocalypse finds Erik at a low ebb and recruits him.'"

Then, only available to read in the print edition of EW's latest issue, a scene is described when Apocalypse first meets Charles Xavier.

"The scene today takes place in 1983, a decade after the events of Days of Future Past, and Raven (Jennifer Lawrence), Charles Xavier (James McAvoy), Hank McCoy (Nicholas Hoult), and Moira MacTaggert (Rose Byrne) have gathered inside the halls of supercomputer Cerebro, unaware that they're about to meet their most dangerous enemy yet. Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac), a 5,000-year-old Egyptian mutant, suddenly teleports into Cerebro with his new recruits—Magneto (Michael Fassbender), Psylocke (Olivia Munn), Storm (Alexandra Shipp), and Angel (Ben Hardy)—to force another mutant to join him: Charles. After the professor is pulled across the corridor in his wheelchair by Magneto, Apocalypse sizes up the remaining heroes and declares in a booming bass, 'All will be revealed, my children.'"

Sounds like a pretty badass dude, regardless of his movie costume look.


X-MEN: APOCALYPSE releases on May 27, 2016.