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The first film’s story took place in the 1960s, with the
second instalment “X-Men: Days of Future Past” set in the 1970s
and now the 1980s are the setting for “Apocalypse”.
Fittingly the film is populated with characters or character
designs from that era of the comic books with new characters
including psychic ninja Psylocke (Olivia Munn) and
firework-producing Jubilee (Lana Condor) and the weather
changing Storm (Alexandra Shipp) having her hair in an
1980s-inspired mohawk.
Returning to the Bryan Singer directed film are the
consistent central characters of Professor Xavier (James McAvoy),
Magneto (Michael Fassbender), Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence),
Beast (Nicholas Hoult), Quicksilver (Evan Peters), Havok (Lucas
Till) and Moira McTaggert (Rose Byrne) who look set to go up
against a character also introduced to the comics in the 1980s -
the ancient mutant Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac).
And as if that wasn't enough mutant superheroes, previously
introduced characters are returning but with different actors
playing them - psychic telekinetic Jean Grey (Sophie Turner),
ruby-eyed Cyclops (Tye Sheridan), the flying Angel (Ben Hardy),
and the teleporting Nightcrawler (Kodi Smit-McPhee).“X-Men:
Apocalypse” is scheduled to be released from mid-May 2016.
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