He’s a man who designs and builds robots in this week’s** Ex Machina**, but Oscar Isaac is set to have something of the cybernetic about himself when he takes on the titular villain role in **X-Men: Apocalypse, which starts shooting later this year.
The actor told Yahoo that while he doesn’t have too much information to go on, he does think there will be some prosthetics involved in bringing the powerful mutant menace to life. “It’ll be a mix of practical and digital," he revealed. "I haven’t had a script so I haven’t had a chance to look through the script and see what the exact requirements are, but I think it’ll be a mixture of physical, aided with some robotic technology.” Apocalypse, of course, is a supremely ancient mutant who awakens in the 1980s to cause trouble for the likes of James McAvoy’s Professor Xavier, Michael Fassbender’s Magneto and Jennifer Lawrence’s Mystique.
Bryan Singer is in pre-production on the film now, and according to the actor, he’ll be going through some of the usual processes for someone appearing in a big effects film. "I’m heading to do a head cast, which they do often. You spend 3-4 hours with them putting plaster all over your head and they get a sense of what your face is like and what shape your head is, so they can start figuring out the costume and the make up and all that stuff, which is pretty fun.”
With the young versions of the mutants back in action alongside Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine and rumoured appearances by younger takes on Jean Grey and Scott Summers, **X-Men: Apocalypse **will strike UK cinemas on May 19, 2016. Ex Machina, meanwhile, is out tomorrow.