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Three X-Men favourites rumoured to cameo in X-Men: Apocalypse

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We know that Bryan Singer’s next X-Men movie, X-Men: Apocalypse, will once again focus on the First Class team rather than the old guard as he did with X-Men: Days of Future Past. But that’s not to say that some of the older X-Men folk will be shying away from the movie. According to the […]

Evan Peters says the Quicksilver scene in X-Men: Apocalypse is “bigger and better”

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For many X-Men fans, the highlight of X-Men: Days of Future Past was the scene which involved Quicksilver, played by Evan Peters, using his super speed to take down a room full of guards in the Pentagon. Last month, director Bryan Singer confirmed that there would be another slow-motion Quicksilver sequence in 2016’s X-Men Apocalypse, leaving […]

Bryan Singer teases another Quicksilver slow-motion sequence in X-Men: Apocalypse

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Back in May 2014 producer Simon Kinberg teased that Quicksilver might be returning to the next X-Men movie and then in October of last year we got further confirmation that he most definitely would be making an appearance. We still don’t know how bid an impact he’ll have in the grand scale of the story […]

Exclusive: Matthew Vaughn talks about leaving X-Men: Days of Future Past to work on Kingsman: The Secret Service

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Prior to Bryan Singer returning to the X-Men franchise, X-Men: Days of Future Past director Matthew Vaughn was set to direct X-Men: Days of Future Past based on a treatment he’d written with writing partner Jane Goldman. However Vaughn would leave the project allowing for Singer to head back to the franchise he’d created. While on […]

Kodi Smit-McPhee discusses being cast as Nightcrawler in X-Men: Apocalypse

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He’s only 18 years old but he’s already established himself as one of the finest young actors working in Hollywood today having impressed in The Road, Let Me In, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and more recently Slow West, ironically alongside his fellow mutant Michael Fassbender. In February director Bryan Singer revealed via […]

Oscar Isaac comments on being cast as Apocalypse

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Not only can Oscar Isaac be seen piloting an X-wing in next years Star Wars: The Force Awakens but he has also recently been cast in another big blockbuster as the titular villain in Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Apocalypse due out in May 2016. Isaac recently spoke to MTV at the Gotham Independent Films Awards about […]

Kodi Smit-McPhee will play young Nightcrawler in X-Men: Apocalypse

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Director Bryan Singer has announced via Instagram that Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Let Me In actor Kodi Smit-McPhee has joined the cast of X-Men: Apocalypse as fan-favorite teleporting mutant Nightcrawler. The size of the role is, unfortunately, still a mystery, and there’s no word on whether or not Nightcrawler will be the son of Mystique and Azazel […]

Shortlist of actors for Cyclops and Jean Grey in X-Men: Apocalypse

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With casting underway on X-Men: Apocalypse, it seems that 20th Century Fox and director Bryan Singer have identified a shortlist of candidates to take on the roles of Cyclops and Jean Grey, played of course by James Marsden and Famke Janssen in the previous X-Men movies. According to The Wrap, Chloe Moretz (The Equalizer), Elle […]

John Ottman to score X-Men: Apocalypse

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FilmMusicReporter has revealed that composer John Ottman has signed on to score 20th Century Fox’s upcoming mutant superhero sequel X-Men: Apocalypse, which is being directed by Bryan Singer. The news will come as no surpise whatsoever, seeing as Ottman has collaborated with Singer on the majority of the director’s films, including The Usual Suspects, Apt […]