It seems like there’s always a key role to cast in an upcoming superhero movie, whether it’s a good guy, bad guy or supporting character. But one of the biggest villains in X-Men comic book mythology now has an actor ready to take that role.
Variety‘s Justin Kroll reports that Oscar Isaac (Drive, Inside Llewyn Davis) has been cast as the main bad guy in the upcoming X-Men: Apocalypse, the sequel to X-Men: Days of Future Past and the third film in a new trilogy of films featuring Marvel Comics’ superheroic mutants.
In the X-Men comic book storyline, Apocalypse (or En Sabah Nur) is the world’s first mutant, born 5,000 years ago in ancient Egypt. If you stuck around to watch the post-credits scene for X-Men: Days of Future Past and wondered what that was all about, the young boy building the pyramids (with his four horseman in the background) was the character that grows up to be Apocalypse.
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Apocalypse has been drawn as a massive, hulking character, which calls into question whether or not Isaac will act out a motion-capture performance that becomes a CGI creation on screen. Like the last two X-Men films, Apocalypse will take place in the past, this one set in the 1980s, and feature younger versions of previously established characters.
The role is the latest high-profile gig for Isaac, who has a part in the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens and is generating Academy Award buzz for his lead role in A Most Violent Year.
X-Men: Apocalypse, directed by Bryan Singer, is scheduled for a May 27, 2016 release.
