Speaking with Movie
Pilot from the set of the upcoming Fantastic Four reboot in Louisiana, writer
and producer Simon Kinberg talked about Apocalypse, and what he will bring to
the table. Kinberg also briefly addressed the talks about Lupita Nyong'o being
a fan favorite to play a younger Storm and Channing Tatum's Gambit
announcement.
Kinberg began by
explaining how they will approach Apocalypse:
"What the comics do best and I think Bryan's
done so well with these movies is humanizing, dramatizing the characters," he
said. "It'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." Kinberg then adds, "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 does present a new leader, the darkest leader in the movie
franchise."
Kinberg then revealed
that the stakes will be higher in X-Men
Apocalypse than in Days of
Future Past. "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." Kinberg then adds that "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."
Kinberg then confirmed that although time travel
is an important part of X-Men: Days of Future, the same cannot be said for X-Men:
Apocalypse.
"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."
The writer then commented on Lupita Nyong'o
being a fan-favorite for the younger iteration of Halle Berry's Storm, "I've certainly been reading about it. She's
a great actress".
Then it was time to talk about Channing Tatum
and Gambit, and the writer said:
"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 the films."
[Laughs]..
X-Men: Apocalypse opens on May, 27th, 2016.
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