X-Men: Apocalypse is still quite a while away, but that’s not stopping Oscar Isaac, who will play the film’s eponymous villain, from talking up Apocalypse in grand terms. According to Isaac, X-Men fans can expect a truly impressive villain for the third installment of the rebooted franchise, one worthy of the name Apocalypse.
Isaac is currently doing press for his latest film, A Most Violent Year , but everybody’s asking him about what we can expect from X-Men: Apocalypse . Isaac’s casting was only announced and confirmed quite recently, and the actor has presumably seen only a bit of the script. He appears to have been impressed, though, with what he has seen of the next X-Men movie.
“I’ve seen a couple things,” Isaac told MTV News at the National Board of Review Awards. “Scary s**t. Scary s**t.”
Isaac there was talking about what he’s seen of costume and character designs for Apocalypse. The look of Apocalypse hasn’t even been hinted at yet for the next X-Men flick, but fans will obviously have their own expectations . Whether or not Marvel can realistically bring anything approximating Apocalypse’s look from the X-Men comics will no doubt be a topic of conversation once more details on the film begin to leak out.
Isaac didn’t have too much more to say regarding X-Men: Apocalypse , which is understandable since the film is still relatively early in the planning stages. He did say, though, that we can expect that the X-Men will get all that they can handle and more when they go up against Apocalypse.
“I’m going to bring [the X-Men] down to their knees,” Isaac said. “It’s amazing. I’m so excited about everything that’s going to happen.”
X-Men: Apocalypse will follow on the heels of the wildly successful X-Men: Days of Future Past , capping off the three-film arc that rebooted Fox’s version of the mutant franchise after the first trilogy nearly destroyed its viability. The third film will likely kick off a new spate of mutant movies for Fox, with a Deadpool film , a Gambit film , and likely a Wolverine film slated for release in the next few years.
The next film will reportedly focus heavily on the romance between Mystique and Magneto , played by Jennifer Lawrence and Michael Fassbender. With those two no doubt occupying a good deal of screen time, it might be interesting to see just how Fox manages to give Isaac’s Apocalypse time enough to shine .
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