Bryan Singer Breaks Down the ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ Trailer

The X-Men: Apocalypse trailer hit the web today, and based on the 200 comments left on that post

Fans weren’t ecstatic over their first-look at Apocalypse. It wasn’t an intimidating (or finished) look, but the trailer makes him a towering presence.

What is a God? Why would someone create and rule over a race simply to be worshipped? It bears no respect or devotion to him – that’s the big giant ego of the old God. All of it lacks symmetry, order and devotion to him. It needs to be culled. It needs to be wiped away and rebuilt again. [In the trailer] I like that you just see bits and pieces [of him]. It forces you to look at not just his face, but his costume, the scale, the strangeness, the inscription, the technology. It makee was a young Jew in a concentration camp when he first lost his family and now here comes this man who was, is, or claims to be God. The power of persuasion is Apocalypse’s greatest power… [Erik’s] one of the most pivotal characters. Fassbender really delivers here in non-traditional comic book style. There are scenes here you will not see in any other comic book movie. I really think Erik goes through one of the most complex journeys in the movie.

This movie is about the formation of the X-Men. How do you get all these characters who are in different places in their lives to become the X-Men? That’s the challenge of the movie. It was important to show thas you want to lean around the corner to get a better look. That was a picture [regarding the criticisms of the first photo]. He’s a very powerful and imposing character and Oscar acts the shit out of it.

He’s found Erik at the most vulnerable place in his life. He’s searching for God. Remember, ht these are kids. There’s no way anybody can get in there but them, and do what needs to be done, and yet they’re kids.

Remember when everyone talked about how goofy Quicksilver looked before X-Men: Days of Future Past came out? Admittedly, the costume was slightly off-putting in the finished film, but the character turned out to be a real scene-stealer. Singer discussed a technically complex sequence featuring the character:

There’s one sequence that took one and a half months to shoot for three minutes of film. It involves the most complex camera moves, very sophisticated explosive algorithms, 3D Phantom cameras travelling at 50mph while shooting at 3,100 frames per second. Evan worked more days on this movie than any other actor because of this one sequence.