But 24 years ago, it was the X-Men animated series on Fox that brought a new generation of fans to Marvel’s mutant heroes.
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Even its own 2011 semi-reboot, “X-Men: First Class”, stayed within the established universe and has been slowly leading up to the original “X-Men” trilogy ever since.
You can hear more of his thoughts on the film in the full podcast, included above.
While the reception of X-Men: Apocalypse has been somewhat below expectation, the franchise shows no sign of either slowing down, or reducing in scope. It is the ninth film in the franchise, and the fourth one directed by Bryan Singer.
It’s not surprising that Singer and Kinberg wants to see Lawrence get more spotlight, considering what she’s brought to the character, as well as her ability to draw in audiences in the box office. The movie begins in ancient times in Cairo, Egypt, where a group of mutants are trying to transfer the consciousness of their powerful mutant leader En Sabah Nur, aka Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac), to a new body. When Apocalypse debuted in 1986, Marvel had an agreement whereby creators could earn royalties when characters they created showed up in merchandise or filmed entertainment (something the publisher doesn’t do anymore). They jet all over the earth in some sort of energy bubble like Bill and Ted in their phone booth, eventually winding up at Charles Xavier’s (James McAvoy) school. When the threat of Apocalypse becomes apparent and Xavier’s life is in danger, Raven/Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) and Hank must try to defeat Apocalypse and his horsemen with the help of Quicksilver (Evan Peters), Scott Summers/Cyclops (Tye Sheridan), Jean Grey (Sophie Turner), and Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler (Kodi Smit-McPhee).
X-Men: Apocalypse opened lower than Bryan Singer’s last X-Men offering X-Men: Days of Future Past, which grossed $110 million in its first four days, while February’s Deadpool set a franchise high with a three-day opening weekend of $132.4 million. If you’re an X-Men fan, I’d say give it a shot and see what you think. Some would argue her role in the ’80s-set film would be impossible, given that she was a teenager in the first X-Men.
Filled with eye-popping special effects and exquisite action scenes. “Acting is a way for me to be somebody other than myself”. The more humanity in these movies, the better they resonate. Small tidbits of just the way he speaks with them makes him so likable just like the way Patrick Stewart manages to do it in some of the earlier films. No longer was Magneto a nexus for the film’s ethical ambiguity. He and McAvoy continue to retain their strong, complicated relationship thanks in part to their strong beliefs in their ideologies.
Further celebrating the stand-out scene (which took a mighty 30 days to shoot), 20th Century Fox has released a new featurette that goes behind-the-scenes of the making of the sequence detailing how the teams involved used state of the art filmmaking equipment such as phantom cameras.
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It is actually the quieter moments in the film that make the most impression out of most of the action scenes.
