X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)

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The past catches up in a new X-Men: Apocalypse photo!

Who are these mysterious uniformed men and what role will they play in 20th Century Fox’s summer 2016 mutant ensemble, X-Men: Apocalypse? We’re not quite sure yet, but they’re the focus of the latest Instagram tease from director Bryan Singer, who accompanies the shot with the equally mysterious caption, “The past catches up.” Check out the full shot below!

 

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X-Men: Apocalypse shows off a mutant guided owl

On the heels of yesterday’s mysterious image showing off a group of uniformed men armed with bows and arrows, Bryan Singer has returned to Instagram with another behind-the-scenes look at 20th Century Fox’s summer 2016 mutant ensemble, X-Men: Apocalypse. In the new image (seemingly a continuation of yesterday’s scene), assistant director Josh McLagen guides a placeholder for what Singer describes as “a mutant guided incoming owl.” Check out the full shot below!

 

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Nicholas Hoult and Jennifer Lawrence arrive on the X-Men: Apocalypse set

Production continues on 20th Century Fox’s summer 2016 mutant ensemble, X-Men: Apocalypse, and director Bryan Singer revealed on Instagram that actors Nicholas Hoult and Jennifer Lawrence have arrived on the set of the upcoming sequel. Check it out below.

 

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Bryan Singer teases Caliban in X-Men: Apocalypse!

It seems that the world of Bryan Singer’s upcoming mutant ensemble, X-Men: Apocalypse, is getting bigger and bigger every day. In his latest behind-the-scenes Instagram tease, Singer has revealed that the mutant Caliban will part of the 2016 release! Although the Morlock isn’t pictured, you can check out his underground home in the photo below!

Caliban, created by Chris Claremont and Dave Cockrum, made his first appearance in 1981’s “Uncanny X-Men” #148. An albino mutant, Caliban has a mutant tracking ability that made Callisto, the leader of the Morlocks (a civilization of mutants that have chosen to live underground), seek him out. He was later augmented by Apocalypse, becoming one of En Sabah Nur’s horsemen. It’s a pretty safe bet that we’ll something similar unfold when Caliban hits the big screen on May 27, 2016.

It’s also quite possible that Caliban’s role as a Morlock will have a connection to 20th Century Fox’s upcoming Deadpool. That film is slated to have a Morlock character as well in the form of Gina Carano’s Angel Dust.

 

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New concept art for X-Men: Apocalypse has Cyclops battling Storm

A new piece of concept art from Bryan Singer’s upcoming X-Men: Apocalypse has debuted online from the pages of Empire (via Tumblr) and it shows not only Cyclops and Jean Grey, but their apparent assailant, Storm. Check it out below!

 

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See X-Men: Apocalypse’s Cerebro in a new set photo

X-Men: Apocalypse director Bryan Singer has debuted another new image from the set of the upcoming film, featuring Charles Xavier’s telepathy enhancing machine, Cerebro. Check it out below.

 

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Head back to the X-Mansion in new X-Men: Apocalypse set photo

Production continues on X-Men: Apocalypse in Montreal and the city’s hockey team, The Canadians, recently posted an image of director Bryan Singer on the set of the film in a custom jersey and sitting in the foyer of the X-Mansion. Check it out below!

 

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Bryan Singer teases an X-Men: Apocalypse Quicksilver sequence!

It looks like Evan Peters’ Peter Maximoff is making an appearance today on the set of Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Apocalypse! The director just shared to Instagram a new behind-the-scenes still teasing the elaborate set-up required for a slow-motion sequence similar to the one we saw in last year’s X-Men: Days of Future Past. There’s also another photo that offers a look inside the X-Mansion! You can check them both out below.

 

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Bryan Singer teases more behind the scenes on X-Men: Apocalypse

It’s nearly every day that we get a new behind-the-scenes image or mysterious video from the set of X-Men: Apocalypse thanks to director Bryan Singer and his frequent social media postings. Today he gives us two glimpses, one a still of Singer giving “Game of Thrones” star Sophie Turner (who’s playing Jean Grey) a run for her money in the archery department, as well as stop-motion video of a gimbal in action.

 

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X-Men: Apocalypse Comic-Con poster officially revealed!

Ahead of the Twentieth Century Fox Hall H panel at San Diego Comic-Con, director Bryan Singer has released the first official poster for the highly anticipated X-Men: Apocalypse, which was being given out to attendees of the convention. Check it out in the below.

 

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X-Men: Apocalypse logo officially released

Following their panel in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday, Twentieth Century Fox has finally released the official X-Men: Apocalypse logo, which you can see above.

 

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X-Men: Apocalypse costumes and character details shared by Bryan Singer

In a new interview with Yahoo! promoting the Rogue Cut of X-Men: Days of Future Past, director Bryan Singer shed some light on what fans can expect from the X-Men: Apocalypse costumes, characters and story.

Singer promises that we will see “some images and treatments of X-Men powers you’ve never seen before and some action and some pretty epic scope and some pretty major stakes, like global stakes.”

“Apocalypse is a pretty cool character,” Singer enthuses of the villain played by Oscar Isaac. “X-Men is always centered around the fight between mutants and humans. This one is a bit different, it deals with the concept of ancient mutantism, gods and men. It deals with issues that are global. Apocalypse makes no distinction between humans and mutants, only between the weak and the strong. He as a character is what is so ultimately compelling.”

Singer also seemed pretty jazzed about revisiting beloved characters like Jean, Scott, Storm and Nightcrawler when they were younger.

“These are very different characters than they were in the films X-Men 1, 2, and 3,” he states. “They are at times in their lives when they are at the most opposite of what they would become. That’s a thrill to me, to take characters I crafted so many years ago and flip them completely on their side and show how they evolved and began.”

Finally, the director teased that the iterations of X-Men costumes in Apocalypse will hew closer to their iconic comic book look and feel, meaning we may finally see some COLORS.

“The X-Men are sort of a fighting team, so it was always an attempt at being realistic to have them in fighting uniforms, flight suits, things like that,” Singer suggests. “In ‘X-Men: First Class,’ which I produced and wrote the story for, we hark back to the original colors of the original costumes from the 1963 comics. I will say that in ‘X-Men: Apocalypse,’ there is a chance -without giving anything away- that you may get closer to seeing what I think, Mr. X-Men News, you are interested in seeing. I know its something that I’ve been interested in, I just always wanted to do it the right way.”

 

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X-Men: Apocalypse photos - First look at the title villain, Storm and Psylocke

Whether you think he harkens back to Walter Simonson’s original comic design or it brings back memories of Ronan the Accuser (or perhaps certain “Power Rangers” villains), Entertainment Weekly has our first solid look at Oscar Isaac as the title villain of X-Men: Apocalypse, standing alongside Michael Fassbender’s Magneto and Olivia Munn’s Psylocke for a cover story. Check out the full pic in the gallery below, along with more new images featuring Quicksilver, Storm and more!

“It’s a chaotic world of conflict and war and destruction,” director Bryan Singer says. “It’s one giant civilization that now requires one giant culling. That’s why he needs special assistants in this process.”

 

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X-Men: Apocalypse Cairo set teased in new photo

In his latest behind the scenes post to social media, X-Men: Apocalypse director Bryan Singer takes a stroll through the film’s Cairo set. In addition to having ties to Oscar Isaac’s Egyptian mutant Apocalypse, Cairo is well known to fans of the X-Men comics for being the childhood home of Ororo Munroe, aka Storm. Check out the image in Singer’s original post below!

 

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High-Res X-Men: Apocalypse photos officially released

Following their debut last week in the pages of EW, 20th Century Fox has debuted high-res versions of the previously released images for X-Men: Apocalypse, which you can check out below!

 

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X-Men and Fantastic Four crossover movie teased by Bryan Singer

Fans were happy when director Bryan Singer used X-Men: Days of Future Past as an opportunity to clean house after several unloved entries in the franchise wrecked havoc with characters and continuity. Now it seems Singer might perform that same function on the yet-to-be-released Fantastic Four, using that most Marvel of tactics: An X-Men and Fantastic Four crossover.

“Those ideas are in play,” he told Yahoo Movies. “That would be a natural match-up because they’re both ensemble films and there is a natural mechanism by which to do it. It deals with time. That’s all I’m going to say.”

Some might wonder if the upcoming Josh Trank-rebooted Fantastic Four movie, which had rumors of a troubled production and has already drawn the ire of comic fans for playing fast-and-loose with the beloved residents of the Baxter Building, will do enough justice to the property in order to sustain a franchise. Even Singer is cautiously skeptical about how the new movie will be received:

“We’ll have to see how the films turn out,” he said of both Fantastic Four and his own upcoming X-Men: Apocalypse, which also softly reboots the X-Men with younger versions of the core team. “To just say you’re going to do it would be a mistake, you have to see how the films evolve before you make that decision to completely commit to that.”

Being that the two movies share a screenwriter/producer in the form of the ever-prolific Simon Kinberg, it makes sense that a synergistic pow-wow between him, Singer, producer Lauren Schuler-Donner and even 20th Century Fox may have taken place, although we’ll have to wait until the new FF bows on August 7 to know if these early discussions shall bear fruit.

 

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Bryan Singer shows off massive practical set for X-Men: Apocalypse

As production continues on X-Men: Apocalypse, director Bryan Singer has revealed another new image from the set of the highly-anticipated film, this time showing off one of the massive practical sets.

“This takes me back to #raidersofthelostark #notallgreenscreen,” the director writes on the post. Check it out below!

 

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New X-Men: Apocalypse photos revealed

If the EW photos weren’t enough for you, the new issue of Empire magazine also includes four new X-Men: Apocalypse photos that you can check out below!

 

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Storm watches over Cairo in a new photo from the X-Men set

Director Bryan Singer has revealed another new photo from the set of the highly-anticipated X-Men: Apocalypse, focusing on Alexandra Shipp’s Storm.

“Storm watches over #1983 #Cairo via the magic of real time #simulcam,” Singer wrote on Instagram. The Simulcam technology, developed by James Cameron for Avatar, is capable of showing off simulations of the eventual CG backgrounds during the shooting of green screen sequences. Check out the image below!

 

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X marks the spot in a new X-Men: Apocalypse set photo

Back when we visited the set of X-Men: Days of Future Past two years ago, director Bryan Singer and production designer John Myhre continuously spoke about the “secret X’s” hidden on the set. Myhre had carefully placed X’s all over the film’s locations, some so well hidden that Singer wasn’t even aware of them. Now it seems the tradition continues on X-Men: Apocalypse as Singer has shared a new image from the set, featuring a massive X amongst some rubble. Check it out below!