Hey youtubers it’s Charlie and Oscar Isaac has just been cast as Apocalypse in the next
X-Men Movie.
Originally it was called Age of Apocalypse, now the movie is just called Apocalypse.
Oscar Isaac in case you forgot is one of the main cast members of Star Wars Episode 7.
It’s a little too soon to be calling him the next Chris Pratt but maybe we can think
of him as an evil Chris Pratt.
A small indie actor that suddenly blows up playing villains in some of the biggest franchises
in history.
To be clear, we don’t know officially what his Star Wars character is going to be.
The rumors say scoundrel but I’ll talk more about that during my Star Wars Trailer breakdown
on friday.
Today is all about Mutants.
And we can actually use that word because this is FOX.
I get so tired of all the legal bullshit with Fox using the word mutant and Marvel using
the word Inhuman to describe people humans with special powers.
Whatever, here’s what we know about the movie so far.
In order of importance to the narrative there’s Apocalypse, it’s named after him, of course
it’s going to be about his life, then Jennifer Lawrence’s Mystique and Michael Fassbender’s
Magneto.
All the other young cast members will be back from Days of Future Past.
The ones that did not die that is.
And the movie will take place in the near future after the events of Days of Future
Past.
If that was in the 70s, just consider Age of Apocalypse to be early mid 80s.
The end credits teaser featured Apocalypse in Ancient Egypt so there will be flashbacks
explaining where he came from.
But the majority of the movie will be in present day.
When the characters are all adults.
The story was planned to be the next logical step given the events of Days of Future Past.
So magneto assaults the president on live television with all the world watching.
He’s taken down, but where do we go from here.
And what about the other end credits scene where Wolverine wakes up in the alternate
timeline version of Professor X’s academy.
The future where everyone is still alive?
The timeline is going to get fuzzier, but it just implies that of course the X-Men will
defeat apocalypse.
The X-Men franchise is such a critical part of Fox’s earnings as a company, that I don’t
think they’d risk money by leaving things on a super downer ending.
The safe bet is always to give the protagonists a big win.
Unless it’s Empire Strikes Back and your movie is part of a Trilogy.
Which it kind of isn’t, the X-Men Franchise isn’t really a trilogy right now.
It’s just a new movie every couple of years that are all loosely connected.
It’s not like Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy where the beginning, middle
and end are all meticulously planned in advance.
If you haven’t read the Age of Apocalypse Comic Book Story or seen the animated tv series
adaptation.
As the name implies, it’s kind of like a Days of Future Past situation where the world
is taken over by Apocalypse with the aid of his four horsemen and Mr Sinister.
Days of Future Past is all about what the world would look like if Humanity tried to
eradicate the Mutants, Age of Apocalypse is the other side of that.
Apocalypse as a character isn’t so much a believer in Mutant Rights like Magneto,
he preaches Survival of the Fittest.
So if you can vaporize matter with eye beams, in his eyes, you are deemed more worthy of
the right to live in his new world order.
Because they just did Time Travel in the last movie, I don’t think they’ll do the exact
same thing again.
So I think they’ll change the comic book story to eliminate the post-apocalyptic parts
and just keep it mostly in present day.
Like the creation of the Four Horseman and the X-Men fighting Apocalypse and Mr Sinister
to a standstill.
The movie will probably be just as long as Days of Future Past in terms of duration,
which is well over two hours, so they’ll have plenty of time to do a whole side story
for Apocalypse and his four horsemen.
Mr Sinister isn’t confirmed but I really hope we see him.
And speaking of new X-Men characters, they’re re-casting Cyclops, Jean Grey and the other
X-Men that did not appear in First Class.
I know they had young Cyclops in Wolverine Origins, but they’re recasting all those
X-Men.
The First Class actors will still play their characters.
And then there’s the issue of Channing Tatum’s Gambit.
He’s getting his own Solo Film after Apocalypse but he’s supposedly not going to be feature
in the big team up movie.
It’s possible they could tease him, it would make sense from a marketing standpoint.
But his character isn’t going to be a big part of the film.
Even though in the comics he did become one of Apocalypse’s Horsemen.
He was Death, in the original comic that was Warren Worthington.
Everyone asking about Taylor Kitsch being bumped from the role.
Yes, I think if John Carter had not of been such an epic flop he would still be Gambit.
Channing Tatum is guaranteed box office for Fox though.
I’m going to wait till I see footage to pass judgement on that.
There are tons of things you can do to get ready for the
Apocalypse Movie though, first being read the Original Age of Apocalypse
comic book.
A
lot of aspects of that will be in the movie.
It won’t be a straight up adaptation though.
They changed a bunch of stuff about Days of Future Past from the comics, so just expect
the same thing to happen with the new movie.
Right now Apocalypse is a big part of the X-Men Avengers AXIS comic book story, so you
should check that out too.
They did Hellfire Club in First Class and in the comics Apocalypse meets Mister Sinister
through them, so they could bring the Club back in the new movie.
Age of Stryfe is a fun storyline.
Right now in the comics the Apocalypse in AXIS is the clone version.
If you have any other big Apocalypse or Mister Sinsiter comics you guys want to recommend
just write them below in the comics.
Here’s my big question for you.
Do you think that Fox should join their Fantastic Four movies with the X-Men Franchise.
Do you think they can pull off the same shared universe Marvel has?
The odds are against them and there are a lot of bigger hollywood people that are firmly
against this type of shared universe stuff just because it places a lot of restrictions
on what stories they can tell.
It’s the difference between doing whatever you want with a group of characters, versus
being forced to write within the canon created by other directors and writers.
Regardless of whether you like what they did.
Right now I kind of like that only Marvel is doing it, I don’t think I’d want to
see everyone else do it too.
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Thanks for watching, see you guys tomorrow.
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