New 'X-Men' Villain Has Been Around Since the Dawn of Civilization... See the Proof
The titular big bad in ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ (Photo: Fox)
by Graeme McMillan, The Hollywood Reporter
It has to be true, a fake TV show from the 1980s reported it.
Don’t call it a comeback. While next month’s X-Men: Apocalypse might feature the big-screen debut of Oscar Isaac’s seemingly immortal mutant villain, he’s been here for years — or, at least, that’s what a new video promoting the movie claims.
The In the Footsteps of… En Sabah Nur short — which takes the form of a promo for a fictional documentary series that exists in the X-Men cinematic universe — teases out the scale of the threat that Apocalypse poses, while also placing the new movie in context with 2014’s X-Men: Days of Future Past.
The video is just one piece of a promo campaign that inserts Apocalypse into human history, with the X-Men Movies Twitter account blaming the villain for various historical calamities in a series of images labels “The Ages of Apocalypse” — named after the fan-favorite storyline from 1990s comic books.
When Apocalypse rises, civilizations fall.
Atlantis Sinks
Casualties: 20,000 – 40,000 pic.twitter.com/V0mEmijQF5— X-Men Movies (@XMenMovies) April 18, 2016
#Apocalypse will rise again. #XMen
1200 BC: The Decline of the Mycenaeans
Casualties: 225,000 pic.twitter.com/nghoPFPf8d— X-Men Movies (@XMenMovies) April 18, 2016
The bringer of death. #XMen #Apocalypse
430 BC: Mysterious Plague in Athens
Casualties: 75,000 – 100,000 pic.twitter.com/8RWPwp9G0j— X-Men Movies (@XMenMovies) April 18, 2016
X-Men: Apocalypse will be released May 27.
