New cast members for the latest Marvel movie X-Men: Apocalypse is announced as production gets underway. Hints and spoilers of the plot are also revealed as the Psylocke and Archangel characters are confirmed to join the film.
While Avengers fans are gearing up for the latest Avengers installment in May 1, another Marvel franchise is sure to get fans excited again for next summer. X-Men: Apocalypse is now in pre-production stage and things are shaping up pretty fast. Director Bryan Singer is leading the team again and this time, he has a whole new set of mutants to join the original main cast from X-Men: First Class.
Bryan Singer tweeted last Monday that Olivia Munn is joining the cast as Psylocke/Betsy Braddock, one of the most recognizable characters in the X-Men comics. Psyclocke is a telepath with mad martial arts skills, se lots of action can be assumed in this film.
Other confirmed recent additions to the cast include Kodi Smit-McPhee as Nightcrawler, Lana Condor as Jubillee, and Ben Hardy as Archangel. Although all the characters are interesting, it is Archangel that fans are quite excited about as Singer says that X-Men: Apocalypse will see a darker, more bad-ass version of the winged mutant. Gone are his white angelic wings as the recent leaked concept art shows metallic black mechanical wings. This means that the film follows the story-arc where Archangel becomes one of the villains, becomes a formidable foe as his wings can shoot sharp metallic projectiles and is also retractable.
Currently, in addition to original cast members James McAvoy (Professor X), Jennifer Lawrence (Mystique), and Michael Fassbender (Magneto), other confirmed cast members with Munn, Condor, Smit-McPhee, and Hardy are Sophie Turner as Jean Grey, Alexandra Shipp as Storm, Tye Sheridan as Cyclops, Channing Tatum as Gambit, and Oscar Isaac as Apocalypse.
With the casts confirmed and the production underway, is this going to be the biggest convergence of mutants ever? X-Men: Apocalypse hits theaters on May 27, 2016.
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