X-Men: Apocalypse

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Dat schrijven Amerikaanse filmmedia. Het is de vierde film uit de reeks stripverfilmingen waarvoor de Amerikaan in de regisseursstoel plaatsneemt.

De 49-jarige Singer regisseerde in 2000 de film X-Men. Ook het vervolg X2 nam hij op zich. De derde film X-Men: The Last Stand werd echter geregisseerd door Brett Ratner, maar Singer was wel verantwoordelijk voor de productie daarvan.

Voor het vierde deel, X-Men Days of Future Past, keerde hij weer terug als regisseur. Die film verscheen dit voorjaar.

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The movie's villain Apocalypse was introduced in a post-credits teaser at the end of Days of Future Past.

First Class favourites James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence are expected to return, along with even more young versions of classic characters.

The latest installment was a huge personal victory for the Singer, as he had previously left the Marvel series after kickstarting it with 2000's X-Men and its 2003 sequel X2 to fulfil his dream of making a Man Of Steel movie.

It was a decision that was to backfire, as his Superman Returns movie was deemed a failure, despite earning a respectable $391 at the box office.
However his very participation in a sequel looked in doubt after he was accused of sexual abuse by Michael Egan in April, just weeks before Days Of Future Past opened.

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X-Men Apocalypse is more than just that other 2016 Marvel superhero movie. The Fox sequel to X-Men: First Class and this summer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past has been quietly building momentum while DC and Marvel prepare for battle with their big films Batman vs. Superman and Captain America 3. X-Men: Apocalypse comes out a few weeks after those two, on May 27, 2016. Bryan Singer, Dan Harris, Michael Dougherty and Simon Kinberg are all currently working on breaking down the story, which will probably deal with the super-evil mutant of the title.

In a new interview, Singer revealed a few more details on the film, including the fact it’ll be an Eighties period piece, and the logical continuation of the Seventies look of Days of Future Past, and that it will have “will more of the mass destruction that X-Men films, to date, have not relied upon.” Read the quotes below.

Singer spoke to Total Film (via Comic Book Movie) and said the following about the film:
We’re going to deal the the notion of ancient mutants – the fact they were born and existed thousands of years ago. But it’ll be a contemporary movie – well, it’ll take place in the ’80s… The ’80s is a period now – it’s hard for me to believe that! ‘Apocalypse’ will have more of the mass destruction that ‘X-Men’ films, to date, have not relied upon. There’s definitely now a character and a story that allow room for that kind of spectacle.

He was then asked to possibly comment on that aforementioned character who allowed for destruction:

I don’t want to get too specific, but we’ll introduce familiar characters in a younger time. That’ll be fun to show the audience. I call these movies in-between-quels. It’s a mind-fuck, sometimes, in terms of where things fall in the timeline!

And though Apocalypse won’t be released until 2016, Singer seems pretty committed to telling even more X-Men stories beyond that.

Yeah, there actually are [more stories I want to tell]. It all stems back to when I did [the first] X-Men. You always want to know where a character’s going to go, what their future’s going be like. You can always sequelise. But on that film I also had actors asking ‘Who am I? Where did my character come from?’ So as a director you always need a backstory to give your actors. It may not be the right backstory, but it’s one you can give the actor to help them understand their character. These prequels are really exciting for me because they give me a chance to explore ideas I came up with more than a decade ago.

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X-Men: Days of Future Past and X-Men: Apocalypse writer Simon Kinsberg has confirmed that it's very unlikely we'll be seeing the original X-Men cast anytime soon.

In a Q&A on Yahoo, Kinsberg reaffirmed that Apocalypse will focus on the First Class cast, and if any of the characters from the original trilogy were to appear, they'd have to be recast.

"If we included some of the original X-Men like Storm and Jean and Scott and other in Apocalypse, yeah we'd have to recast them, as Apocalypse takes place a good twenty years before [the first] X-Men, which was now, insanely, a good ten to fifteen years ago.

"It would be really hard to do. Halle (Berry) and Famke (Janssen) and Jimmy (Marsden) and others have done such wonderful jobs of bringing those parts to life, and are so identified with those parts now. So it would be a tall task. But I also would have said before First Class that there would be no actors who can stand alongside Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart."

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Op maandag 13 juli 2015 16:43 schreef Dagger87 het volgende:
Afgelopen weekend was een nieuwe trailer uitgekomen bij comic con. In de link is de trailer beschreven en is ook bekend wie de "four horsemen" zijn. Heel vet. http://screenrant.com/x-men-apocalypse-footage/