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Watch the new trail­er for X‑Men: Apocalypse

11 Dec 2015

Words by Ashley Clark

It’s the end of the world as we know, unless those plucky mutant heroes can save the day once more…

Hot young bods in span­dex, shoot­ing pur­ple fire­bolts at one anoth­er and float­ing in mid-air while look­ing angry. Yes, it’s that time again to check in with those lov­able X‑Men, and this new movie has them attend­ing, once more, with end of days. Bryan Singer returns to the helm of this com­ic book fran­chise which was one of the very first to eschew wide-eyed won­der­ment and go dark” on us. And, from the look of this first trail­er, things are still very dark.

Winterfell’s own Sophie Turn­er is draft­ed in as a young Jean Gray who fore­sees the end of the world!” and, even though we’re not gam­bling folk, we’d guess that her pre­mo­ni­tion was more than just a bad dream. As luck would have it, the first ever mutant in exis­tence hap­pens to go by the handy soubri­quet of Apoc­a­lypse”, and the fact that he’s back on the block with hench­men a‑plenty and a han­ker­ing for Earth­ly destruc­tion, well… you see where we’re going with this.

Although, wouldn’t it be swell and refresh­ing if it actu­al­ly was a dream, all was well and the X‑Men went to the park en masse to play hacky sack and drink Buck’s Fizz in the sun­shine? Ahh… Here’s the new trail­er for you.

X‑Men: Apoc­a­lypse opens in cin­e­mas on 19 May.

Two illustrated book covers depicting a smiling Black man wearing a hat and tie, with a city skyline in the background

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