As well as those first official images, Entertainment Weekly has revealed some fascinating new details about what's to come in X-Men: Apocalypse. Confirming that the Egyptian mutant is over 5000 years old, Apocalypse will apparently make his presence felt when he awakens and decides that he's not a fan of the Reagan ear. "It’s a chaotic world of conflict and war and destruction," director Bryan Singer tells the site. "It’s one giant civilization that now requires one giant culling. That’s why he needs special assistants in this process." Those special assistants are Storm (who Apocalypse finds living on the streets of Cairo), Angel (who is part of a fight club in Berlin), Psylocke (who works behind the Iron Curtain for mutant-broker Caliban), and Magneto. He's now trying to live a normal life with a new love in Poland, but when his world is "shattered", Apocalypse apparently has little trouble recruiting him. So, there you have Apocalypse's Four Horsemen!
Mystique meanwhile is now rescuing mutants who are being enslaved or oppressed, including Nightcrawler (they don't point out whether or not he's her son though). Ravel apparently tries to find Magneto to comfort and help him when she learns what happens, and it's that which sees her reunite with Charles Xavier. "He’s not teaching anybody how to fight at the moment," James McAvoy says of where we pick up with Professor X 10 years after the events of X-Men: Days of Future Past. "He’s teaching people how to control their abilities so that they can work at a bank. But of course this movie challenges all of that." It's this which will apparently lead to the focus shifting from the characters of the previous movies to a new group of mutants who are going to become the X-Men we all know and love from the comics. "This is kind of the introduction to them," he says of the young versions of characters like Cyclops and Jean Grey. "At the same time, it has concluding aspects of those previous stories." What do you guys think about these details?
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