Some young Instagram user has found her way to an event which just so happened to feature a standee for X-Men: Apocalypse, and it's probably one of the coolest standees ever made. A mere 16 years ago, the idea that we'd be seeing advertisements for a sixth X-Men movie (and ninth in the entire X-franchise) which features more mutants than you can shake an adamantium claw at would have been laughable. Whilst it's damn cool that we're finally getting someone a bit more outlandish like Apocalypse as the villain, and we've got Psylocke (Olivia Munn) in her classic purple leotard, and hey there's Storm with her mohawk... we're still being forced to live with the reality of black leather-clad X-Men. This film is set in the 80s, for god's sake! If ever there was an excuse for colourful spandex... Ah well. A missed opportunity. The film will probably still be awesome in spite of that oversight. Take a look at the standee below; https://www.instagram.com/p/BBWaGOnGygD/?taken-by=evalrie Couple of things to notice here; first off, the towering height of Apocalypse. That is how big fans of the comic would expect him to be, as he generally towers over everyone, what with his ability to change shape and such. Hopefully he'll adopt this eleven-foot height in the climax of the movie. Secondly, is how awesome James McAvoy looks with that bald hair; he's the spitting image of the younger Xavier from Mark Millar's excellent run on Ultimate X-Men. Lastly, is just how funny it is that two of the actual card-carrying X-Men in this movie are Mystique and Quicksilver, characters who arguably have only ever had passing membership or brief run-ins with the team in the comics. But hey, these are the X-movies, and source material is used however damn well Bryan Singer pleases.
X-Men: Apocalypse is released on 19 May in the UK and 27 May in the US.
Cinephile since 1993, aged 4, when he saw his very first film in the cinema - Jurassic Park - which is also evidence of damn fine parenting. World champion at Six Degrees of Separation. Lender of DVDs to cheap mates. Connoisseur of Marvel Comics and its Cinematic Universe.
