X-Men: Apocalypse movie (2016)

[Captain Canuck]

Anyone have any thoughts on the alleged Magneto/Mystique romance? It's been bugging me for two reasons.

Should we guess what those reasons are?

1) Because you can't make a good celebrity mashup name with them. Except Mysterio, and that's already taken.

2) Magneto and Prof X were best buds and Mystique was basically Xavier's sister. And even if you have irreconcilable differences, you don't date your bff's sister. It will make your chess game get togethers in your plastic cell awkward for years to come.

 

[vintsukka]

1) Because you can't make a good celebrity mashup name with them. Except Mysterio, and that's already taken.

Magnetique. Obviously.

 

[Captain Canuck]

Actors rumoured to be up for the roles of young Cyclops and Jean

Elle Fanning (Maleficent), Chloe Grace Moretz (If I Stay) and Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit) are all being looked at for Jean while Timothee Chalamet (Interstellar), Ben Hardy ("EastEnders") and Charlie Rowe ("Red Band Society") are all up for the Scott role.

 

[E]

The third installment of the trilogy begun in X-Men: First Class has found its Apocalypse — it's Oscar Isaac, who's just finished filming another possibly villainous role in Star Wars: Episode VII.

 

[DARKKNIGHT]

The third installment of the trilogy begun in X-Men: First Class has found its Apocalypse — it's Oscar Isaac, who's just finished filming another possibly villainous role in Star Wars: Episode VII.

Interesting. He's a great actor, but my first reaction was that I can't see him as Apocalypse. Maybe that's because I really like Idris Elba for the part. I'm sure he'll be fine though.

 

[Ice]

Archangel concept art, Singer confirms Ben Hardy is Angel


""Ben Hardy is Angel – I shall confirm it for you!" the filmmaker told the magazine. "But he's not a very nice Angel! And that's all I'll say …""

 

[Captain Canuck]

So Angel isn't Warren Worthington III then, eh?

 

[Ice]

So Angel isn't Warren Worthington III then, eh?

What makes you say that?

 

[Captain Canuck]

What makes you say that?

Because he was in X-Men: The Last Stand as a young man and apparently this movie takes place in the 80s. I know DoFP effectively wiped X3 off the timeline, but it couldn't have changed the timeline so much that someone was born 30 years earlier. I mean, I guess they might just do it because, who cares? But assuming they are trying to keep some kind of continuity between the movies, then it SHOULD be someone else.

 

[Ice]

I doubt it's going to be anyone besides Warren. Singer will have a way to explain why.

 

[Ice]

Olivia Munn cast as Psylocke

 

[DIrishB]

Because he was in X-Men: The Last Stand as a young man and apparently this movie takes place in the 80s. I know DoFP effectively wiped X3 off the timeline, but it couldn't have changed the timeline so much that someone was born 30 years earlier. I mean, I guess they might just do it because, who cares? But assuming they are trying to keep some kind of continuity between the movies, then it SHOULD be someone else.

I doubt it's going to be anyone besides Warren. Singer will have a way to explain why.

The X-Men film series has had a terrible continuity for awhile now. There are dozens of instances of continuity screw ups in the series, usually regarding little things, others not so little (like Prof X and Magneto meeting when they were in their late teens as explained by Professor X in the first X-Men... but First Class shows them meeting when they're both in their late 20's). And then stuff like two White Queens (one in Origins - Wolverine, one in First Class), the details about Cerebro, etc, make it glaringly apparent there wasn't much thought put into building a bigger X-Men film universe when these problems began... and continued.

Days of Future Past tried to fix those things by resorting to timeline reset, resurrecting dead characters, etc. And that's fine. But it doesn't explain the Angel thing, and now this:

Olivia Munn cast as Psylocke

Psylocke already appeared in Last Stand... and now she's the same age in the early 80's as she is in the mid 2000's? Is immortality one of her mutant powers?

 

[wyokid]

Yes. Via body swapping

 

[Captain Canuck]

Psylocke already appeared in Last Stand... and now she's the same age in the early 80's as she is in the mid 2000's? Is immortality one of her mutant powers?

She wasn't ever named in the movie, she was a very minor character. I didn't even realize it was her for years.

 

[DIrishB]

Yes. Via body swapping

True.

She wasn't ever named in the movie, she was a very minor character. I didn't even realize it was her for years.

White Queen in Origins - Wolverine wasn't the same character as White Queen from First Class, and the Origins version was a minor character.

Can't we just admit Fox doesn't bother much with continuity (though I do give credit to Singer for trying to fix those issues with DoFP)?

 

[Ice]

Official first look at Kodi Smit-McPhee as Nightcrawler.

 

[DIrishB]

Official first look at Kodi Smit-McPhee as Nightcrawler.

Cool. At least this works with the continuity (at least regarding Nightcrawler's presumed age in X-Men 2).

 

[DARKKNIGHT]

Official first look at Kodi Smit-McPhee as Nightcrawler.

I can't help but think he would look better if he had "I can teleport" tattooed on his face.

 

[DIrishB]

I can't help but think he would look better if he had "I can teleport" tattooed on his face.

Brilliant!

 

[Captain Canuck]

I can't help but think he would look better if he had "I can teleport" tattooed on his face.

And "Bamf Bamf Bamf Bamf Bamf Bamf" all over his chest.