Oscar Isaac Cast As Chief Villain In 'X-Men: Apocalypse'

Oscar Isaac, the actor who rose to prominence after strong showings in Drive and Inside Llewyn Davis, will play the primary villain in Bryan Singer's _X-Men: Apocalyps_e - the next instalment in Fox's long-running Marvel Comics franchise.

"One of the challenges of following up 'Days of Future Past' is that the movie is so big in scale and scope and stakes, how do you tell the next one that doesn't feel like a step backward? The 'Apocalypse' story, even for people that don't know the comics, just from the title the stakes are pretty clear."

Fox has made a commitment to numerous comic book movies, including two new Fantastic Four movies and another standalone Wolverine film, with Hugh Jackman. There's also a solo 'Deadpool' movie set for February 12, 2016.

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"Visually it takes us into some places we've never explored in the 'X-Men' movies," Kinberg added of his vision for the new films. "I love when other superhero or comic book movies have yet another genre [within the genre] - like 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' being like a political thriller and 'Days of Future Past' being a science-fiction time-travel movie, those are subgenres. With 'Apocalypse' we're really doing a global-disaster movie, Roland Emmerich-style."