Oscar Isaac On Motivations And Missions In X-MEN: APOCALYPSE
Is Apocalypse truly out to destroy the world in Bryan Singer's next X-Men film? Without spoiling anything, Oscar Isaac says Singer and Simon Kinberg have come up with a "very cool" approach to the world's oldest mutant. But will Apocalypse be true to the comics or something new?
The supremely talented Oscar Isaac was recently a guest on the Monkeys Fighting Robots podcast recently and briefly touched on his work on Star Wars: The Force Awakens and X-Men: Apocalypse. On the latter, Isaac confirmed that he's already begun filming for Apocalypse and that he's still digesting the script and developing his take on the character. "I’ve been reading the script a lot and trying to come at for me, a interesting angle. Definitely focusing on the fact he is the embodiment of the second coming of the judgments of god and that energy going in. We’re playing with that. What we are trying to do is make his philosophy and what his mission is, one that is both simple but also holds water, that really makes sense throughout the whole movie. I think Simon Kinberg and Bryan Singer, we’ve been able to come up with something very cool."
X-Men: Apocalypse hits theaters next year, on May 27, 2016.
As far as Apocalypse's mission, philosophy and motivations are concerned, given Singer's tendency to eschew the source material, one has to wonder just what type of Apocalypse we'll be getting on the big screen. Is this the same En Sabah Nur, who was born in Egypt 5000 years ago and is possibly the very first mutant in existence? Through Apocalypse's origin story, will we also get an introduction to Kang the Conqueror? We almost certainly will not be seeing any Celestials as those are clearly a Marvel Studios property as seen in James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy. Will he be a being obsessed with evolution and the survival of the fittest or will he be a run of the mill supervillain, bent on world domination? Again, going by Singer's track record, I'm inclined to believe we're going to get a totally new version of Apocalypse who has mission wholly different from his comic book counterpart.
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