Much as he did with X-Men: Days Of Future Past, Bryan Singer is letting his own voice – or rather, his fingers, given the medium – do the announcing on follow-up X-Men: Apocalypse. He’s taken to twitter to reveal that Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan and Alexandra Shipp have all been cast in the new mutant adventure.
Mere hours after hearing from the film’s villain, Oscar Isaac about how Singer and his team will bring the character of Apocalypse to life, we now know who will be playing younger versions of three classic mutants in the 1980s-set movie.
Keeping up his current track record of hiring from the cast of Game Of Thrones after Peter Dinklage appeared in Days Of Future Past, Turner will be Jean Grey, previously played by Famke Janssen. Mud’s Sheridan is on as the new Scott Summers, AKA Cyclops, taking over the role from James Marsden, while Shipp, who most recently played Aaliyah in a TV movie biopic, will fill Halle Berry’s weather-manipulating shoes as Ororo “Storm” Munroe.
Quite how much of a role the three will have remains to be seen, since James McAvoy’s Professor Charles Xavier, Michael Fassbender’s Magneto and Jennifer Lawrence’s Mystique will still be the focus. But there’s a chance Singer is angling for the three franchise newcomers to quietly take over given that McAvoy, Fassbender and Lawrence’s contracts will be running out and they’re all in high demand, which means they’ll become expensive to keep hiring in future. Hugh Jackman has also been rumoured to crop up, because what is an X-Men film without Wolverine? X-Men: Apocalypse is gearing up to start shooting soon, ready for a May 19, 2016 UK release.