It has been a long road finding young versions of Cyclops, Storm and Jean Grey. Originally played by Famke Janseen, James Marsden and Halle Berry in the original trilogy. Now director Bryan Singer took to twitter to officially announce that Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner, Mud star Tye Sheridan and Aaliyah: Princess of R&B star Alexandria Shipp has joined the cast of X-Men: Apocalypse. They join the likes of Hugh Jackman as well as the "First Class" cast of James McAvoy, Micheal Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult. According to rumors Channing Tatum might appear as Gambit and Oscar Issac has been cast as the title villain Apocalypse.

Meet our new and brilliant young mutants: @Alexshipppp as #Storm @SophieT as #JeanGrey and @TyeSheridan as #Cyclops. #XmenApocalypse
— Bryan Singer (@BryanSinger) January 23, 2015

While promoting his newest film Kingman: The Secret Service up and coming actor Taron Egerton reveals to MTV UK that the rumors of him up for Scott Summers in X-Men: Apocalypse is completely untrue."I can say I'm not doing X-Men. "I love the X-Men films and I love that franchise. I love the people who make them on and off screen, so yeah I'd love to one day sometime, but in this instance that rumor is unfounded." He does however go onto reveal he would love to play Spider-Man even though Andrew Garfield has done an amazing job. "If I could play any superhero... my favorite superhero is Spider-Man. Andrew Garfield is wonderful at doing it to the point that I don't think I should play it." Even though the actor has taken himself out of the running many other names were on the shortlist for Scott Summers, Jean Grey and Storm. 

It seems X-Men: days of Future Past will be the last time we watch Patrick Stewart and Ian Mckellen grace the screen as the friendly foes Professor Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr While speaking with Larry King the actor revealed that the next film X-Men: Apocalypse will be done without them and once again be on the shoulders of James McAvoy and Micheal Fassbender:

Last year we heard a list of young actors and actresses who were up for the role for young Jean Grey and Scott Summers in Bryan Singer's upcoming X-Men: Apocalypse. They included Kick-Ass star Chloe Grace Moretz who had even met with director Bryan Singer. Well now Latino-Review has nabbed a scoop adding even more names to the original list for both Scott and Jean along with some names for a young Storm. Apparently Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner (Who has been many fans favorite) is being looked at for Jean Grey as well as The Host star Saoirse Ronan. As for her long time crush Scott Summers FOX is eying young up and coming actor Taron Edgerton who will star in next months Kingsman: The Secret Service. Others being looked at include Jamie Backley and Tye Sheridan. Jeff Snider of The Wrap goes onto confirm this scoop stating that Tye Sheridan is the frontrunner for Scott Summers and that Chloe Mortez has since passed on Jean Grey.


Lastly, the report goes onto add two names who are up for the role of a young Storm in the X-Men feature. They include Alexandria Shipp who starred in Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B and Zendaya Coleman from K.C Undercover. 

Several day's ago a fan asked actor Daniel Cudmore if he would be returning to X-Men: Apocalypse as Colossus. And for you Colossus fans the answer is unfortunate: 

“@R_0_B_89: @danielcudmore Will we see Colossus again in #XMenApocalypse???” Unfortunately I don't think so..
— daniel cudmore (@danielcudmore) December 3, 2014

Now this shouldn't come as to much of a surpise given that Colossus is still a teenager in X2 and may not have even been born by the time of Apocalypse on the 1980's even with the timeline reset from Days of Future Past.

 It should be noted that Colossus actually plays a pretty large role in Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick's original Deadpool screenplay starring Ryan Reynolds. If the character is still in the newer drafts its entirely possible they may bring Cudmore back for that X-Men spin-off! We actually spoke with Cudmore back in 2013 his reaction to the Deadpool screenplay.

Today Variety announced that Inside Llewyn Davis and Star Wars: The Force Awakens star Oscar Isaac has joined Bryan Singer's upcoming X-Men: Apocalypse as the title villain. This comes after rumors that Tom Hardy and Idris Elba were being eyed for the title role. He will join the cast of the First Class films as well as some younger actors who will play young Jean Grey, Scott Summers and Storm.

Last week it was revealed that Luthur and Thor star Idris Elba has since parted way's on Guy Richies Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur as the "Merlin" of the film. Then several days ago Jeff Snieder of The Wrap called into Meet the Movie Press and dropped a hint that Idris Elba's name has been thrown around to possible play the title villain in Bryan Singer's X-Men: Apocalypse! Many also know Elba as being the military commander at the end of Pacific Rim who gave the speech "We are canceling the Apocalypse!" well I guess that wasn't completely true...

Jeff lastly adds Elba is just one of three actors who have been rumored for the title role..

Other names that have floated around for the role of Apocalypse included Tom Hardy (The Dark Knight Rises) but Jeff says that is no longer happening. Which makes sense since Hardy maybe singing onto DC Comics Suicide Squad.

Tom Hardy has become synonyms with comic book movie castings. After appearing in The Dark Knight Rises the star has since been linked to Marvel's Doctor Strange and most recently DC's Suicide Squad. Well now The Wrap is reporting that the actor has been approached by FOX to star has the title villain in X-Men: Apocalypse! Now while now deal is in place they go onto say that the actor is shying away from Doctor Strange and is looking at either Suicide Squad or X-Men: Apocalypse. It's unfortunate that he is being type-cast as a comic book villain on all of these movies expect Doctor Strange but either way it's good for us!

The other day it was announced (via Deadline) that longtime X-Men director and director of the recent Days of Future Past film Bryan Singer will indeed return for the sequel X-Men: Apocalypse. This comes off recent allegations that the director had misconduct with a young male actor back in the 90's but the allegations have since been dropped. It was always assumed that the director would return for this epic sequel but now he has officially signed the dotted lines. The first plot details have also been announced which confirms that young "First Class" cast will indeed meet up with the original x-men younger self in the 1980's which include Scott Summers, Jean Grey and Storm

Apocalypse takes place a decade after Days of Future Past and is a seamless next step in the story. The altering of time has unleashed a new and uniquely powerful enemy. Charles (James McAvoy), Erik/Magneto (Michael Fassbender), Raven/Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence), Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) and Hank/Beast (Nicholas Hoult) are joined by young Cyclops, Storm, Jean and others as the X-Men must fight their most formidable foe yet: an ancient unrelenting force determined to cause an apocalypse unlike any in human history.

Even it isn't announced in this plot synopsis it has also been confirmed that Evan Peters will indeed return as Quicksilver. It has also been rumored that Channing Tatum will assume the role of Gambit in this film before spinning off into his own solo film. Other mutants who have been rumored are Nightcrawler.


In other news. Writer and Producer of X-Men: Apocalypse Simon Kinberg sat down with Yahoo! Movies to answer fan questions about the film as well as Days of Future Past. He teases that young Scott, Jean and Storm may need to be recast as well as the chronological order of the X-Men films:

It has been two films in the First Class timeline for young Charles Xavier and actor James McAvoy seems to have grown hair in the most recent film Days of Future Past instead of losing it. Of course there was that off-handed joke in X-Men: First Class where Hank McCoy says to Charles that Cerebro would work better if he shaved Charles head.  But beyond that we have yet to see James McAvoy go bald leading him from simple telepath Charles Xavier to Professor X (Played by Patrick Stewart)

Well, while speaking with The Huffington Post the actor reveals that he doesn't have any specifics on the next X-film Apoclaypse but does reveal he will finally go bald:

"I'll be older for this one.[And] I think I'm losing my hair finally. And, yeah, that's kind of all I know." He continued, "I got an email from the [producer/writer Simon Kinberg] who informed me he was getting dead excited about stuff, but he didn't want to divulge anything for a couple of weeks, so I really don't know. It does seem fairly global, if we're talking apocalypse. Maybe it's just the character's name, but I think the nature of the film is going to be fairly apocalyptic."

Today Journal de Montreal revealed that Bryan Singer's next X-Men flick Apocalypse will begin shooting in Montreal April 2015. This comes off his most successful and critically acclaimed X-Men film Days of Future Past this past May. He will once again utilized the massive 27-arce studio for his next film. While the first trilogy was filmed  in Ontario and British Columbia. And X-Men Origins as well as The Wolverine were shot in Australia.

Now while many have you saw Blink die twice in X-Men: Days of Future Past you can expect her to return! She undoubtedly had some of the coolest action sequences in the entire storyline thanks to her mutant ability of teleportation through shards. Well, while the actress Fan BingBing spoke with The Star she reveals that she will return for the next film and maybe even up to 3 others:

Today, long time X-Men director Bryan Singer took to his Instagram account to tease The Four Horsemen and opening sequence for his next X-flick X-Men: Apocalypse. The four horsemen have changed over the years in comics by several mutants and even superheros but they consist of War, Pestilence, Famine and Death.


So far we know most of the "First Class" cast will be back for the sequel to Days of Future Past. As well as young Cyclops, Jean Grey and Storm who has yet to be cast. Lastly, Channing Tatum is said to have a cameo or role as Gambit in the upcoming movie before his own spin-off.

Last year it was announced that Kick-Ass 2 director Jeff Wadlow was hired to pen the script of the X-Men spin-off X-Force with the possibility of directing. Some suggested this would be a better way to re-introduce fan favorite Deadpool and partner Cable in a PG-13 setting. Then news on the project got extremely quiet.....Now X-Force and Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld has taken to twitter to reveal the announcement of X-Men: Apocalypse the sequel to X-Men: Days of Future Past is what put X-Force on the back burner....just like Deadpool it seems:

Everything changed when X-Men Apocalypse was announced... RT @actionscomics: @robertliefeld and the movie of x-force? What's new?
— robertliefeld (@robertliefeld) June 2, 2014

Jeff Wadlow script exists and is assumed to be completed but the director is now rumored to have moved onto Masters of the Universe while X-Force is put on ice.

While promoting X-Men: Days of Future Past producer and screenwriter Simon Kinberg was questioned about the next movie in the franchise X-Men: Apocalypse (via Moviepilot). He first talks about humanizing the title villain for the next film "What the comics do best and I think Bryan's done so well with these movies is humanizing, dramatizing the characters. I's really been about how do we give him [Apocalypse], most importantly, a very human and relatable motivation so that as extreme and insane as his methods are, there is something, you know, understandable, almost empathetic about his motivation. Some of that is in the books, some of that is us building on that. You know, fully dimensionalizing the character, but it is a huge part of the task of adapting the story of Apocalypse. It is making him, while larger than life also dow to a human, emotional scale. We're definitely approaching him as a super charismatic leader that will draw people to his cause. So far, in the X-Men movies, there really are two leaders. You know, there's Eric/Magneto and what he did with the Brotherhood and Charles/Professor Xavier and what he did with the X-Men. Apocalypse presents a new leader, the darkest leader in the franchise."  

He then goes onto add that he has gone to reread the original Age of Apocalypse story line."I had read Age of Apocalypse and most of the appearances of Apocalypse before thinking about the movie, but went back and reread it and I think one of the things that's most exciting about it is the potential for the visual scale of the movie, and so it is a larger story than even Days of Future Past. In Days of Future Past, they're trying to stop something that's not extinction level in the moment, although it could be one day. There's not an immediacy in the plot and this is a plot that actually has extinction level stakes and is even more global than anything we've ever seen before. There's a lot of architecture from the stories that we'll be using. It will be about his character emotionally, you know, like who is he? Not just as a mutant, but as a person."

He then goes onto talk about how Apocalypse won't have much time-travel like in Days of Future Past."The Apocalypse story has a lot of different ways of telling stories," he said. "That was one of the things that I liked about Days of Future Past: Doing a time travel movie where it's not just sending someone back in time, but actually intercutting between the past and the future that we really haven't seen in a movie before. Usually you have somebody go back and stay in the past the whole movie. Apocalypse has some, without getting into detail, as you know from the books, has some innovative, different ways of storytelling also."

Then finally he comments on the fan casting of Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave) taking on a young Storm "I've certainly been reading about it; she's a great actress"As well as comments on Channing Tatum being cast as the Ragging Cajun Gambit."I think Gambit's one of the coolest characters that hasn't been heavily featured, I mean, he was in the first Wolverine movie, but he hasn't really been heavily featured in the main X-Men movies. I think Channing will be amazing playing him. What I like about the character is that my favorite characters in the comics are anti-heroes like Batman, like Wolverine, like Iron Man. I think Gambit fits into that classification because he's a thief, he's rogue, he's a little destructive. I think he's one of the more dynamic characters in the X-Men world. He's certainly one as a fan that could be explored more."

In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter actor Channing Tatum once again reiterates his love for the Raging Cajun. He goes onto reveal that he hasn't "signed the dotted lines" on the X-Men contract but is on the 1-Yard line. I guess he doesn't know X-Men producer Lauren Shuler Donner confirmed him herself on the X-Men: Days of Future Past red carpet last week:


In a separate interview with GQ Magazine Tatum actually reveals that he was up for Gambit in Brett Ratner's X-Men: The Last Stand but the character was written out of the script. He was also interested when Gambit was announced for X-Men Origins: Wolverine but by then he was to busy on G.I.Joe: Rise of Cobra that he simply didn't have the time and the role ended up going to Taylor Kistch. He adds:

“We’re talking about it. I’m proactively sort of going after it. And I feel bad, because I really love Taylor Kitsch as an actor and what he did with the part, but you know, you’ve got the things that you would really love to do and see.” 

I guess it's a good thing he wasn't Gambit back in 2006. He was not the actor that he is today as well as Brett Ratner would have probably killed off his character. Can't say he isn't committed though....

Once again during the press rounds for X-Men: Days of Future Past scribe Simon Kinberg was grilled on the inclusion of Quicksilver in the most recent X-film. It came after reports that Joss Whedon was also adding Quicksilver in his Avengers sequel and it seemed that FOX did it out of spite towards Marvel Studios. Never-the-less despite the goofy outfit Quicksilver (Played by Evan Peters) seems to be the stand-out star of Days of Future Past in the early reviews of the film. Kinberg then goes onto to confirm Quicksilver will return in X-Men: Apocalypse...the real question is will his twin sister Scarlet Witch also appear? A scene was deleted that referenced her character in Days of Future Past:

While speaking with Superhero! Hype on X-Men: Days of Future Past screenwriter Simon Kinberg was of course grilled on his next X-film X-Men: Apocalypse. Here briefly talks about how the next film will be even bigger then this as well as the villain himself....Apocalypse:

"We want to tell the Apocalypse story and there's massive scale and scope to telling that story. There's going to be set pieces that I suspect are going to be bigger than anything we've ever done in an X-Men movie before and he's a great character. The biggest and funnest challenge of the Apocalypse movie to me is his character. How do you create a new villain for the X-Men world that is as good as any villain that's come before, is compelling philosophically as Magneto, not just in his physical powers, but in his philosophical depth. 'Apocalypse' is going to be a fun movie to write and make."

While promoting his recent X-film X-Men: Days of Future Past director Bryan Singer was of course asked about his next project X-Men: Apocalypse. We already got confirmation that the story will take place in the 1980's with the X-Men: First Class cast as the primary cast. But what about some new editions to the team? He goes onto say "My next goal is how did the X-Men come together?" he told SciFi Now (via Comic Book Movie): 

"That story hasn't been told yet, so [Days of Future Past] is the inbetweenquel. [Laughs] It's in between the birth of that relationship with Charles and Erik and the formation of the X-Men."

When asked if the film will feature younger versions of the original X-Men Storm, Jean Grey and Cyclops he confirms:

"Yeah, exactly. In a way, it feels like from this point forward we can do whatever we wants but we'll be moving forward with some of the actors from the First Class/Days of Future Past cast, so there's stuff we've done in these last couple of movies that we'll definitely continue doing for them, at least in Apocalypse, if not more movies going forward."