Even though they’re not tied to its production or distribution, Marvel continues to prove that it knows how to make a movie. (Just let’s all forget about that Fantastic Four heap of poop from August, first.)
The first trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse has landed, and it may top the year’s best comic book based movie trailers list. More engaging that Civil War, more explosive than Age of Ultron, and darker than Batman v Superman, Apocalypse provides the shear terror that only one of Marvel’s quintessential antagonists can bring.
The film continues the now canon X-Men: First Class series, with a younger Charles (Professor X) Xavier and Eric (Magneto) Lensherr and a more serious take on the mutant mythos. Bryan Singer returns to direct this, the finale of the First Class trilogy, and puts the focus on the rise of the first mutant and his Four Horsemen, Storm, Psylocke, Angel and Magneto. Played by Star Wars: The Force Awakens‘ Oscar Isaac, Apocalypse (real name: En Sabah Nur) is hell bent on demolishing the human race in order to build a more perfect world. His Four Horsemen (modeled after the biblical rock band) are his minions. Roping in the already fragile psyche of Magneto is what will undoubtedly pull in the rest of the X-Universe and the mutant heroes.
The trailer is phenomenal. It builds the terror and fear throughout, showing flashes of the deadly enemy and his growing army, finishing with Xavier’s final line, “I’ve never felt power like this before.” It’s “hair standing on end” chilling.
X-Men Apocalypse hits theaters on Memorial Day weekend.
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