X-Men: Apocalypse - 8 Major New Story Details Revealed

7. The X-Mansion WILL Be Destroyed

The destruction of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters is something of a trope in the X-Men comics, and while we've seen attacks on the mansion before now in the movies, it's getting blown up in X-Men: Apocalypse! Singer says he decided to destroy the mansion because Apocalypse is such a huge threat, so he's clearly the one who brings the iconic building down (no great surprise considering the massive amount of destruction he was clearly causing in the first trailer for the movie). Specifics on how the scene plays out haven't been revealed, though it will include Mystique, Beast, Quicksilver, Moira MacTaggert, Cyclops, Nightcrawler, and Jubilee, along with around a hundred teenage extras. It's obviously a big scene then, and the director utilised a number of different techniques to make it happen, including working with Go-Pros, the Phantom camera, stunt work, choreography, and visual effects. While the sight of a bald Charles Xavier entering Cerebro is quite clearly a scene from the end of the movie in a rebuild X-Mansion, this is a moment which is long overdue and one fans have been looking forward to seeing.