Evan Peters Dishes On Returning As ‘Quicksilver’ In The "Biggest X-MEN Movie" APOCALYPSE

Evan Peters Dishes On Returning As ‘Quicksilver’ In The "Biggest X-MEN Movie" APOCALYPSE

American Horror Story's Evan Peters has revealed what Quicksilver's initial motive will be up to when he returns in X-Men: Apocalypse, and the actor also praises the Days of Future Past follow-up and teases how his mutant will be incorporated into the plot. Check it out!

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By DCMarvelFreshman - Nov 03, 2015 06:11 AM EST
Filed Under: X-Men
Source: Details


We’ve known for some time now that one of the great highlights from X-Men: Days of Future Past, Evan Peters as Peter Maximoff/ Quicksilver, will return for the 2016 prequel, X-Men: Apocalypse. However, the actor has now revealed how the speedster mutant will be integral to the story.

“Absolutely, It’s the biggest X-Men film,” Evan Peters agreed when Details asked if Apocalypse will be the greatest installment of the franchise. “It's about the apocalypse, so the scope of the film is huge.” When oddly asked to reassure that the movie is not about a zombie apocalypse, a la The Walking Dead, the American Horror Story star responded: ”Ha! No, it's not. Although that would be amazing if Apocalypse [the evil mutant] brought back the dead to help him take over the earth. I love zombies; I can't get enough. But the story is that my character is searching for his father and wants to find him. It starts there and then he jumps on the X-Men train and gets sucked up in this whole Apocalypse madness: He tries to stop him from destroying the world.”

X-Men: Days of Future Past had only alluded that Quicksilver’s father was none other than Erik Lensherr aka Magneto, like in the comics, but both Michael Fassbender and Bryan Singer confirmed so during interviews last year. And the director recently revealed that we will definitely see  that father/ son dynamic play out between the two mutants in X-Men: Apocalypse. What do you think?



Following the critically acclaimed global smash hit X-Men: Days of Future Past, director Bryan Singer returns with X-Men: Apocalypse, opening in theaters everywhere May 27, 2016. Since the dawn of civilization, he was worshipped as a god. Apocalypse, the first and most powerful mutant from Marvel's X-Men universe, amassed the powers of many other mutants, becoming immortal and invincible. Upon awakening after thousands of years, he is disillusioned with the world as he finds it and recruits a team of powerful mutants, including a disheartened Magneto (Michael Fassbender), to cleanse mankind and create a new world order, over which he will reign. As the fate of the Earth hangs in the balance, Raven (Jennifer Lawrence) with help of Professor X (James McAvoy) must lead a team of young X-Men to stop their greatest nemesis and save mankind from total destruction.
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EricBorder
EricBorder - 11/3/2015, 6:13 AM
Nice, can't wait for this!! This scene was awesome and totally unexpected in the Theatre
MrPositive
MrPositive - 11/3/2015, 6:13 AM
Bread
Bread - 11/3/2015, 6:13 AM
He was the best part of DOFP, I hope they do him justice in Apocalypse.
Antley
Antley - 11/3/2015, 6:15 AM
I have a love/hate thing going on with stuff like this in the X-Men movies. They take lots of liberties with the source material at Fox, but with X-Men, they usually do it pretty well. I just can't get over that that's not how Quicksilver is supposed to be.
RogerYoung
RogerYoung - 11/3/2015, 6:20 AM
that guy who has the power to pause the movie! awesome!
jj72
jj72 - 11/3/2015, 6:25 AM
Looks like Michael Cera in that pic with Jennifer Lawrence.
BrokenMachines
BrokenMachines - 11/3/2015, 6:27 AM
Quick Silver is dead to me😜
Kyos
Kyos - 11/3/2015, 6:30 AM
If Apocalypse has any sense he'll realize that he doesn't need anyone besides Peter to take over the world. And since En Sabah Nur has this awesome powers of persuasion he shouldn't have a hard time convincing him to join his cause - after all it took a random buff dude, a nerd and a drug addict less than an hour to convince Peter to break free the world's most dangerous mutant criminal from under the Pentagon.
EricBorder
EricBorder - 11/3/2015, 6:31 AM
@Kyos

Quicksilver took on some security guards in a kitchen with plastic guns

Nobody knows how he would fare in a fight against real mutants
Highflyer
Highflyer - 11/3/2015, 6:36 AM
In before the Quicksilver and Fox hating starts.
xinstituto
xinstituto - 11/3/2015, 6:36 AM
If we think of x-men as a cinematic universe, it is well built, x1 (Magneto as a thread), x2 (a militar man making experiences w/ mutants, x3 (govenment creates a "cure" for the mutante society). Then past events: FC (Magneto & Xavier origins and Hellfire Club as thread), DOFP (the begining of the Sentinels and how it will be in a farther future), Apocalipse (the biggest vilain x-men has ever faced).
EricBorder
EricBorder - 11/3/2015, 6:38 AM
@GodzillaKart

DOFP rocked, plus it's critically acclaimed and it performed well at the box office

It's far from forgettable, imo
UrbanEnigma
UrbanEnigma - 11/3/2015, 6:38 AM
Bigger isn't always better. Look at what happened in X-Men: the Last Stand.
xinstituto
xinstituto - 11/3/2015, 6:39 AM
Future trilogies:
Genosha (X-Tinction agenda)
Onslaught
Operation Zero Tolerance
Kyos
Kyos - 11/3/2015, 6:39 AM
Nobody knows how he would fare in a fight against real mutants

If he put his mind to it -or if someone instructed him- there wouldn't be much of a fight. Yes, in the kitchen he played around with a bunch of guards, but he could have just as well killed Magneto and Xavier and at least incapacitated Logan instead.
Highflyer
Highflyer - 11/3/2015, 6:41 AM
Sometimes, I have a feeling magneto might die in this.
EricBorder
EricBorder - 11/3/2015, 6:46 AM
@xinstituto

Yeah, it's really well put together

I like how DOFP repeated the ending of First Class too, and how Magneto literally had to repeat the same mistakes he made in First Class, to the point that he would have paralyzed Charles again, in order for Mystique to understand that killing Trask would lead to their extinction, and that Magneto's path was wrong. It put Mystique back in that mind set at the end of First Class. Plus, Charles narration and speech to Mystique during the finale was awesome.

It really plays with the idea of second chances, and how everyone can lose their path, but it doesn't mean that their lost forever, some really powerful stuff, imo, I was locked in from the beginning

First Class, DOFP, and Apocalypse could be one of, if not the best CBM trilogy, imo
EricBorder
EricBorder - 11/3/2015, 6:46 AM
@Kyos

What about Jean Grey? Jean Grey could take him out in a few seconds
EricBorder
EricBorder - 11/3/2015, 6:48 AM
@Kyos

Magneto and Xavier and at least incapacitated Logan

^ You mean, Xavier with no powers?

Logan with bone claws?

and Magneto in a room with only metal utensils and pans?

And, I think Magneto still could have caused damage, and he and Logan definitely could have taken out the guards but Charles didn't want Magneto to kill or severely harm anyone
EricBorder
EricBorder - 11/3/2015, 6:49 AM
Xavier with his powers would definitely take out Quicksilver
BodieBroadus
BodieBroadus - 11/3/2015, 6:52 AM
His scene in DOFP was a lot of fun, but only as spectacle, and only because he wasn't in the rest of the movie. If he becomes more involved in the plot, how do you explain him not easily winning every fight, or solving every problem? He's so damn OP it's like he's stopping time.
EricBorder
EricBorder - 11/3/2015, 6:53 AM
@GodzillaKart

That's cool, right on, I feel the same way too, DOFP was better than AOU for me
Kyos
Kyos - 11/3/2015, 6:54 AM
@EricBorder

What about Jean Grey? Jean Grey could take him out in a few seconds

Xavier with his powers would definitely take out Quicksilver


Hey Peter, want to rule the world?

Step 1: Sharpen a stick.
Step 2: Put on something without metal parts or go nude.
Step 3: Put the stick into Magneto's eyes roughly 20 times in a second.
Step 4: Put on Magneto's helmet.
Step 5: You won.
Kyos
Kyos - 11/3/2015, 6:56 AM
Damnit, I meant "200 times". :P
EricBorder
EricBorder - 11/3/2015, 6:57 AM
@Kyos

So your argument is based on Quicksilver vs Magneto and not taking into account how immature Quicksilver is in DOFP and how easily he could be manipulated, especially by someone like Magneto?

If Quicksilver paused for a second, Magneto could put 1,000 shards of metal into his head if he wanted too, not something that a guard with a plastic gun could do

Plus, when you compare other mutants, other than just Wolverine, to guards with plastic guns, there would definitely be more of a fight

And, Jean Grey and Xavier could definitely take out Quicksilver
SuperCat
SuperCat - 11/3/2015, 6:59 AM
EricBorder
EricBorder - 11/3/2015, 7:00 AM
@Kyos

Plus, has Quicksilver ever killed anybody?

Magneto definitely has and is more than willing
GhostDog
GhostDog - 11/3/2015, 7:02 AM
I've always thought Oliva Wilde would be a great mystique
newmutantsRETURNS
newmutantsRETURNS - 11/3/2015, 7:03 AM
Mutant & SON of Magneto? Kick Rocks MCU Fake ass QS...
AwesomePromoz
AwesomePromoz - 11/3/2015, 7:08 AM
My main criticism of these films is that, unlike the Avengers, none of the X-Men have a personality. They are all just moving parts in a "X-Men" plot machine. Apart from Mystique and to a lesser extent Magneto, I don't care about any of the X-Men in the way I care about Black Widow or Tony Stark or even Fitz and Simmons.... in fact I kind of wish they would all die. It's a very bad, nondistinctive movie franchise.
Kyos
Kyos - 11/3/2015, 7:11 AM
@EricBorder



The fact that neither Eric nor Charles showed any further interest in Peter after the Pentagon escape was one of the things that bothered me the most about DoFP.

If Quicksilver paused for a second, Magneto could put 1,000 shards of metal into his head if he wanted too, not something that a guard with a plastic gun could do

Plus, when you compare other mutants, other than just Wolverine, to guards with plastic guns, there would definitely be more of a fight

And, Jean Grey and Xavier could definitely take out Quicksilver

But he wouldn't pause for a second, and even if he did he would have a whole bunch of other seconds before Magneto could as much raise his arms. And which other mutants (we know of) would be able to even dream of landing a hit against him? As for the telpaths - that's why he'd have to go after Magneto's helmet first.

Look, my argument is that if X-movieverse Quicksilver himself or someone else (say, an ancient being with plans to use other mutants to achieve his goals) actually thought about how to make full use of his potential it'd pretty much be "game over". It's all hypothetical, just playing around with thoughts about the immense possibilities of his powers.

I realize that the Peter we get is a somewhat simple, unambitious dude who will luckily follow the good guys in this movie. Becaus, idk, they happen to ask him first.
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