X-Men: Sinister
In Place of X-Men: Apocalypse, if given the chance, here's what I would've done
Some notes to remember...
Storm i.e. Halle Berry and Jean Grey i.e. Famke Jansen were born in '63 and '64 which means they were born before the Future Past time twist. If First Class happened, as it was before the time twist, so too were these ladies born. They are approximately 20 in 1983.
If that's the case, then Apocalypse' favorite horseman, i.e. Angel, can't/shouldn't be a part of this movie because he was born in 1980-ish. If the time twist allowed him to be born even so much as the same year as the time twist, he would still only be 10 at his oldest. Sorry, no angel. All that had to be done was have a man the same age range as Jean and Storm in the original; what a pity.
Opening the movie is a voiceless montage.
Born in Ancient Egypt is an infant with gray skin and blue lips. Seen as a curse from the gods, the infant is abandoned and later rescued by Baal and the Sandstormers who sees the child's potential power and will to survive.
The Pharaoh, Rama-Tut sends General Ozymandias and an army to destroy the Sandstormers and find the young Apocalypse. En Sabah Nur and Baal are injured and seek refuge in a cave. Before he dies, Baal reveals advanced alien technology hidden in the cave, left behind by the deity-like aliens. Vowing revenge on Rama-Tut, En Sabah Nur enters the Pharaoh's city posing as a slave. En Sabah Nur's rage causes his mutant abilities to fully emerge. Rama-Tut flees and En Sabah Nur uses the transforms his former tormentor Ozymandias into a blind clairvoyant made of living stone. After 'X' amount of years, he enters suspended animation and orders his clan to wake him during the next great phase of evolution.
1983
Raven has become a vigilante-type freedom fighter for Xavier (the 2 are at odds) freeing captured mutants on missions he'd rather not be involved. Xavier, Beast and Moira (no longer with the CIA) are ready to reestablish the X-Men. The trio have been looking for both Magneto and Wolverine since we last left them. Finally, Mystique locates the whereabouts of the Weapon X facility and Wolverine, who is rumored to be brain washed. Ambushed by Sauron and dropped from an alarming height after a struggle, she wakes up, confined to a lab table, curiously eyed by the Stepford cuckoos. Immediately she screams to know where they are keeping Wolverine. The Cuckoos look ominously at the corner to the dead dr (Cornelius) and tell her that Romulus isn't happy.
No sooner, Forge enter the room to dispatch the cuckoos with an invention. Before Raven has time to question the Native American, they try and escape. He explains that Moira, his ex-CIA associate sent him to help. He tells Raven that Stryker and he were Brothers-in-Arms before any of this, before Trask. They rescue a comatose Sabretooth (who is currently being de-aged to peak condition
<Liev Schreiber will start out and it will form into someone like Alan Ritchson so that the character can build over the course of the new movies while Schreiber will complete his story in Wolverine: Romulus which would work in his past, from 1973-1983 and from his escape until whatever this movie leads to>
I'd also like to see shackles around their necks that call back to the Age of Apocalypse costume because that is exactly where I'm heading.
and Wildchild (cgi or a kid made to look adult), bringing them back to the mansion and locking them up for safe measure. Mystique remarks, as she softly brushes his face, that Victor is beautiful.
En Sabah Nur is resurrected by his clan as the time of the mutant is at its greatest. His goal is to destroy the world with his 'survival of the fittest' motto in place. A captive Caliban is used to locate powerful mutants that Apocalypse can mutate into his newest Horsemen. He discovers Peter Maximof visiting his sister in an asylum. After the obvious scenes, Peter and Wanda are taken to Sinister, Apocalypse' most loyal and oldest servant. He manipulates the 2, confirming Magneto's parentage and his abandonment.
The twins are sent to dispatch Magneto. We learn that he has established a peaceful area hidden within the Himalayas, to which he names Avalon. He explains that all mutants deserve to live and that Apocalypse' 'fittest' theory is genocide. In a crazy battle, the twins defeat, but do not kill on orders, Magneto who is taken back to the pens.
Mystique and Forge, back at the mansion, immediately lock up 'tooth and 'child for safety measures. Havok (played by an older actor as he is somewhere around 40 now since they royally f'd THAT TOO), barely alive, tells them about the pens, from where he escaped,. He breaks down the explanation of a major plot hole or 2 (unfortunately, he doesn't explain the other 54 the these movies have created)...
In 1946ish (he was 5-7) his family went down in a plane crash. Thinking he lost his parents and older brother he went through life with a chip until he met Xavier. After the war he heard that his brother was still alive. As it turns out, Sinister was behind the crash and captured his brother to be used in the pens. He put Scott in suspended animation and pulled him out of suspension after the Washington incident in '73 to prepare him. For what, I don't know, but you gotta help him.
Moira stays back and heals the mental wounds of Sabretooth and (attempts the same with) Wildchild. Xavier, Havok, Beast, Mystique and Forge, set out to shut the pens down and rescue Scott and the prisoners. In the pens, Havok is shocked to see that his brother is not a prisoner but, instead, a loyal, high ranking soldier guarding the pens. The X-Men battle Quicksilver, Wanda, Avalanche, Cyclops, Sinister and the 4 Horsemen, Sunfire, (Mikhail) Rasputin, (Black Tom) Cassidy and a Shadow King-possessed Jason Wyngarde.
Beast is able to free the inmates
The inmates.
Ororo (Storm)
Nils (Abyss), Kurt (Nightcrawler) and Kiwi
Azazel, we learn, was an agent of Sinister from when we first met him. He took Mystique's DNA without her knowledge and gave it to Sinister. Essex then combined Azazel's with hers to create the demonic brothers 3. Captive and tortured, the brothers were to be used as mindless soldiers for the Coming of Apocalypse.
Jean
Jean was Sinister's special project.
Magneto
Recently captured
Once freed, each prisoner fights for their lives.
Rasputin kills Havok. Avalanche's powers rip off Forge's arm, seemingly killing him. In retaliation, Mystique, having built a level of affection for Forge, kills Wanda. Kiwi is killed; Quicksilver saves Magneto and defects to the good guys. In oder to save Storm, Jean enters the astral plain and battles the Shadow King, releasing Storm, only for Jean and Shadow King to be trapped. Cyclops is visibly affected. Abyss engulfs Rasputin and swears allegiance to Apocalypse and Sinister by taking his place as a voluntary (not brain washed) Horsemen. Mystique turns into the Hugh Jackman-Wolverine and slices out the eye of Cyclops. Cassidy kills Xavier for letting his cousin die. Nightcrawler and Abyss battle. In the end, Magneto, sensing defeat, gathers up the heroes in a protective sphere and whisks them away after Cyclops creates a minor diversion; Avalanche notices.
As the Magneto-led X-Men return home, they prepare for a war while morning Xavier's death. Moira leaves, prepared to build a human resistance against Apocalypse's army. Sabretooth, loyal now to Xavier and Moira, along with Wildchild, loyal to him alone, swear allegiance to the X-Men.
Magneto
Beast
Storm
Quicksilver
Sabretooth
Wildchild
Mystique & Nightcrawler have had enough violence. Magneto assigns them watch over Avalon, ensuring a safe haven for all who may need it.
Moira locates Stryker and warns him. They part ways, with Moira looking to aid the X-Men with willing humans and Stryker looking destroy all mutants with a human stable and mutant underlings he controls.
Sinister takes Forge, left for dead, and transforms him into his savage lead scientist.
Apocalypse' soldiers are
The devious Sinister
The favored and reluctant Cyclops
The jealous Avalanche
Forge
The horsemen
Cassidy
Sunfire
Wanda
The willing Abyss
Mid-credits show the creation of X-Man (Nate Grey);Sinister believes this is done without Apocalypse' knowledge.
After-credits shows the creation of X-23.
This is not the BEST set up but the best POSSIBLE set up when considering the characters and events up till this movie.
Next
X-Men: Apocalypse Chapters
Magneto, forced to take on Xavier's fight, must survive the onslaught of Apocalypse. Gathering many able mutants who are willing to stand against such a threat is only the beginning.
This can branch off into several teams much like the MCU with each team on a specific mission: Mystique and Crawler can have their own movie by trying to keep Avalon a secret while X-23 and X-Man can take Jean and Logan's place as loners on the run. Sabretooth and Wildchild can become the hounds of Magneto and save Blink in one movie while Magneto's team continues to build its roster. At this point, anyone not yet introduced, can be. Because of the time switch, any number of mutants can be born earlier giving them all a chance.
Quicksilver and Storm can have a romance. A new Colossus can struggle with his brother on the side of evil, maybe because of the death of Illyana, maybe not. He can also share moments with a newly cast Shadowcat. There can be a love triangle, if needed, with McCoy, Creed , and Raven. Wanda can take on the role as the tragic horsemen ala Archangel.
...Tons of potential