But what about the original cast, the one Bryan Singer helped put together for the first X-Men film? Were ten years away from X3 and we felt that if Deadpool can make fun of X-Men movies, we can too.
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It’s now the early 1980s and the very first mutant, En Sabah Nur (Oscar Isaac), reawakens after thousands of years of inactivity. And it’s absolutely justified, too, with the film coming across like a complete rush-job, wherein veteran X-director Bryan Singer and writer Simon Kinberg appear to have finally bitten off far more than they can chew.
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Compared to Batman Vs Superman for example, it’s streets ahead. With the movie scheduled to release in the United States on 27 May, coinciding with Memorial Day, a new clip featuring some deleted scenes from the movie has surfaced online. Also involved are the professor’s old flame, Central Intelligence Agency agent Moira Mactaggert (Rose Byrne), and the big bad’s other hench-mutants: Angel (Ben Hardy), Psylocke (Olivia Munn) and Storm (Alexandra Shipp). A lot of them appeared in X-Men: Days of Future Past, but did that conclude their involvement with the franchise? Ultimately, “she accepts the leadership position, she steps into the role that Xavier usually occupies, and leads the young X-Men into the final battle”.
The X-Men universe is one of Marvel’s richest sources. Members of the cast (Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan, Lana Condor, and Kodi Smit-McPhee) spent days filming in a mall dressed to look like it was right out of the 80s, but in editing, the scenes they filmed there were chopped down dramatically.
“X-Men: Apocalypse”, a 20th Century Fox release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for “sequences of violence, action and destruction, brief strong language and some suggestive images”.
“X-Men: Apocalypse” is particularly egregious in this category, casting Jennifer Lawrence, Oscar Isaac and Michael Fassbender in the latest entry in this time-bending series that is in the slow process of rebooting itself (and making up its own rules regarding continuity as it goes). And while work on this movie began long before the evil mutant and presidential candidate Repello materialized as something more than a TV game-show jester, its fantasy message seems inimitably crucial in these truly unsafe times.
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Jean is a mutant who has both telepathic and telekinetic powers, but she’s unsure about, and frightened by, her odd gifts.
