If you missed out on last year’s excellent Coen Bros. offering, Inside Llewyn Davis, and haven’t yet familiarized yourself with the talented Oscar Isaac, don’t worry: you’re going to be hearing plenty more about this guy. Isaac already has a role in next year’s most anticipated film, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and word broke yesterday that he’ll be jumping from one major franchise to another after landing a coveted role in X-Men: Apocalypse.
Variety says that director Bryan Signer has been meeting with actors for several weeks, but that Isaac was always the clear favorite for the role of Apocalypse, the titular villain that will menace the X-Men team in this next installment. Simon Kinberg is currently working on the script for X-Men: Apocalypse, which will be set during the 1980s and could feature younger versions of existing characters, while Singer has previously teased much larger action sequences for the film:
“‘Apocalypse’ will have more of the mass destruction that ‘X-Men’ films, to date, have not relied upon. There’s definitely now a character and a story that allow room for that kind of spectacle.”
Isaac has quite an impressive slate of films on the horizon, beginning next month with A24’s A Most Violent Year, which is expected to be a major awards contender. In addition to next year’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Isaac also stars in Alex Garland’s directorial debut, Ex Machina. Production on X-Men: Apocalypse will begin in the spring, with Isaac joining returning cast members Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, and Nicholas Hoult.
X-Men: Apocalypse will open on May 27, 2016.
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