Ready For The New X-Men? But Who Is Apocalypse?

Fans of Mutants get ready because the new X-Men movie, X-men:Apocalypse, is coming. If you aren’t familiar with X-Men lore; Apocalypse is an immortal as well as the first mutant ever born and has been an antagonist of the X-Men since he first debuted in the comic X-Factor #6 in 1986.

IGN.com recently sat down with X-Men film creators to learn a bit more about the movie version of Apocalypse, played by Oscar Isaac (Star Wars: The Force Awakens), and how they will be bringing the character to the big screen.

According to producer/writer Simon Kinberg “He’s the most powerful mutant we’ve ever had in one of these movies and that he would be an unbeatable foe for any individual mutant in these X-Men movies”. Kinberg goes on to say one of Apocalypse’s strengths is his power of persuasion which he uses to convince other mutants to join him in his quest.

Bryan Singer also agreed “But I have to say, in the end, his greatest power is the power of persuasion, is the ability to know what he needs and who he needs it out of and to get it from them, as he does with the Horsemen, and as he has through civilization after civilization for tens of thousands of years.”.

Singer also promises that Apocalypse will earn his namesake “It’s a global situation. He wants to make a massive global change. I don’t want to tell you what he’s going to do, but it’s visually unique. He’s going to do something really bad to the Earth that’s going to cause a lot of people to not live. [Laughs] And those that survive will be the strongest.”

Are you ready to meet the Apocalypse? X-Men: Apocalypse will hit theaters May 27th, 2016.