First Look At X-Men Apocalypse's Villain

First Look At X-Men Apocalypse's Villain
Oscar Isaac's feeling blue

16 July 2015 | Written by James White | Source: Entertainment Weekly



Though we’ve seen concept art and one or two behind the scenes images courtesy of director Bryan Singer, this year’s San Diego Comic-Con was the first chance to glimpse the big bad of X-Men: Apocalypse and some of the other characters as they’ll appear in the movie. Now, with Entertainment Weekly’s latest issue, there are some fresh images for all.



And you might not be able to figure out that it’s Oscar Isaac playing Apocalypse, given that he’s pretty much hidden behind layers of make-up and prosthetics to play the ancient, powerful mutant. But there he is, ready to cause trouble for James McAvoy’s Professor X, Michael Fassbender’s Magneto and the rest.

The film’s story finds our heroes split across the world: the Prof is still trying to help mutants blend in with the world, while Raven (Jennifer Lawrence) is on her own crusade to settle matters between humans and mutants in a more violent fashion. Magneto, meanwhile, is opting for a quieter life of love in Poland. At least, that is, until Apocalypse comes a-calling and recruits him…



And the endlessly dangerous mutant is also taking on what has always been known in the comics as his “horsemen”, which in this case includes the young Storm (Alexandra Shipp), Psylocke (Olivia Munn) and Angel (Ben Hardy), who are all in bad circumstances of their own. Apocalypse, who has been in slumber for centuries, decides that the 1980s world is ripe for a reboot. “It’s a chaotic world of conflict and war and destruction,” Singer tells EW. “It’s one giant civilization that now requires one giant culling.” He'll have to be stopped! Sounds like a job for the X-Men! For more images and info,head to EW’s site.

X-Men: Apocalypse is out on May 19 next year.

 

Being a big comic book fan, deviations from the source material really bug me. This looks nothing like Apocalypse.

I mean, how hard was it to get this right?


As everyone online has been saying. He looks like Ivan Ooze.