X-Men: Apocalypse - Everything We Know So Far

Ten Years Later

Tens Years Later

The EW cover story a while back filled in some details about the state of things at the point where the new film opens. Ten years after the events of Days of Future Past, Charles, Raven, and Erik are still not on speaking terms. Professor X is running the school, Magneto is trying to live a normal life in Poland, and Mystique is rescuing oppressed mutants. The rise of Apocalypse brings the three of them back together.

Apocalypses Mission

Apocalypse's Mission

Apocalypse lives by the code "survival of the fittest" in the comics, and it's a version of that mentality that drives him in the film. Waking up after a long sleep, he looks around at the world of the 1980s and finds it stagnant. He decides to clear the board by culling the Earth, making room for evolution to start again.

The Four Horsemen

The Four Horsemen

Culling an entire planet is too big a job for just one person, even the 5000 year old mutant, so Apocalypse recruits his Four Horsemen. Storm is found as a troubled teenager on the street of Cairo. Psylocke is working in Eastern Europe for Caliban. Angel is taking part in a Berlin fight club. Magneto was living in Poland, happily in love with a woman, but Apocalypse finds him at a low point and brings him into the fold.

X-Men: The Next Generation

X-Men: The Next Generation

X-Men: Apocalypse is going to be a pivot point for the film franchise, completing the stories begun in X-Men: First Class that continued in X-Men: Days of Future Past and shifting narrative focus onto the young versions of Cyclops, Storm, and Jean Grey. Cyclops and Jean are both students at Xavier's School, along with Jubilee. As mentioned, Storm is a teenager living in Cairo who is recruited as a Horseman of Apocalypse. Nightcrawler also returns to the franchise as one of the mutants rescued by Mystique.

Other Returning Cast

Other Returning Cast

Also returning for X-Men: Apocalypse are Rose Byrne as the Moira MacTaggert, Evan Peters as Quicksilver, and Josh Helman as William Stryker (or possibly Mystique disguised as William Stryker. We're not sure yet). Lucas Till will also return as Havok, making Apocalypse the first movie to feature both Alex and Scott Summers.

Check out when X-Men: Apocalypse and other movies are coming out in ComicBook.com's Movie Release Schedule.