Unused Apocalypse Design From X-Men: Apocalypse Revealed

Fans are decidedly mixed on Apocalypse's costume design in the upcoming X-Men: Apocalypse, and turns out they weren't the only ones.

Tested recently spoke to Ironhead Studio founder Jose Fernandez, who has designed and created costumes for films like Tron Legacy, Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, and -. At one point he was up for the job on Apocalypse as well, but things didn't end up working out that way.

"What happened was I actually in the running for the job. Another company won out the bid, so as bummed as I was because I really wanted to showcase what I could do, I actually did almost every, I worked with a designer to do almost every other costume in the film, so I had my hands full, so I was like okay."

Once he saw the final design, he wasn't in love with it either.

"Then when the image was released, I like most people was a little underwhelmed, for whatever reasons you know, so I said okay, but then I had a lifecast of Oscar Issac, so I thought, well, what would I have done. So then I went and started putting clay on it, and then I thought well maybe it's not possible to make him look like this character, but that is sculpted on Oscar Issac, so no it was possible. So then I just thought well I'll do my version, an homage I guess to this character, so I sculpted the makeup and then I kind of bashed out the armor fairly quickly, but just an impression of what I think that character could be or could've been."

The look that Hernandez designed is way in more in line with the comics and radiates that superiority and ruthlessness that the character is known for, much more than the film's take.

X-Men: Apocalypse releases in theatres on May 27th.