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X-Men: Apocalypse Producer On Deciding Which Mutants To Include

Fox super-producer and ‘X-Men’ universe overseer Simon Kinberg has been discussing how the filmmaking team go about selecting which mutants to involve.

In a few months 'X-Men: Apocalypse’ will give fans the most epic 'X-Men’ movie yet, and also one of its biggest cast of super-powered mutants.

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The new movie stars James McAvoy as Professor X and Michael Fassbender as Magneto, but also gives us younger versions of numerous famed mutants, including Jean Grey (Sophie Turner), Cyclops (Tye Sheridan), Storm (Alexandra Shipp) and Nightcrawler (Kodi Smit-McPhee).

“With the main new characters, Jean, Scott, Storm and Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac), those were very conscious decisions that we spent a lot of time considering, debating, and then making sure we had enough story to tell for those iconic characters,” Kinberg told Collider.

“Because when you bring in those kinds of characters you can’t just bring them in as a cameo; you really wanna delve into the characters.”

The decision to make Apocalypse the villain was made during the production of the last film, 'Days Of Future Past’ and so from there writer Kinberg and director Bryan Singer branched the story.

“That was the first wave of decisions, and then the characters you’re talking about like Psylocke (Olivia Munn), Jubilee (Lana Candor), Angel (Ben Hardy), Nightcrawler, we sort of build it from the inside outward. We began with who’s the villain we want, what’s the story we want to tell for our four main characters?”

Kinberg also discussed the characterisation of the main new additions to the ensemble, Sheridan’s Cyclops and Turner’s Grey.

“For me, Scott and Jean’s arcs are very connected to Charles and to Raven (Jennifer Lawrence). Charles is the sort of father figure for them at the beginning of the movie, and Raven is ultimately a leader for them going forward. It has to all feel like it’s connecting emotionally, thematically. And then we build the story from there.”

For much more on this process, and discussion about Apocalypse’s four Horsemen - Magneto, Psylocke, Angel and Storm - read Collider’s extensive interview.

'X-Men: Apocalypse’ will be released on 19 May 2016.

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Picture Credits: 20th Century Fox.