20th Century Fox has just released a new featurette for X-Men: Apocalypse! This featurette takes us inside Quicksilver's breath-taking rescue sequence in Xavier mansion! If you thought the scene from "Days of Future Past" was something, wait until you get a load of this one! In a recent interview with EW, Director Bryan Singer revealed why he thought the song "Sweet Dreams" was a good pick for the Quicksters' scene. “To Quicksilver, it’s all a game. It’s like time stands still for him. So for him time and movement are not obstacles which is why he can fix someone’s hair or have a Tab."
Below, you can find the VFX breakdown that shows how Singer and company brought the scene to life!
Pretty cool video, right? I'm pretty sure you can expect a more detailed version when the film releases on Blu-Ray and DVD later this year. Anyhow,
Entertainment Weekly, also released a behind-the-scenes snap of the sequence, along with Evans Peters' thoughts on the scene and his stunt double.
"Some of it is me running around and people frozen in mannequin poses. then we’d bring in Colin Follenweider, the Quicksilver stunt double, to do some of the flips and running on walls, the things I’m just unable to do physically. Colin is from Cirque du Soleil. He’s an incredible acrobat. He’s like a huge deal. He’s amazing. So it’s really cool. They bring him in for the intense stuff. Then they bring me in there and I just try not to mess it up. It’s a huge collaborative effort. And it’s a helluva lotta fun.”
Since the dawn of civilization, he was worshiped as a god. Apocalypse, the first and most powerful mutant from Marvel’s X-Men universe, amassed the powers of many other mutants, becoming immortal and invincible. Upon awakening after thousands of years, he is disillusioned with the world as he finds it and recruits a team of powerful mutants, including a disheartened Magneto (Michael Fassbender), to cleanse mankind and create a new world order, over which he will reign. As the fate of the Earth hangs in the balance, Raven (Jennifer Lawrence) with the help of Professor X (James McAvoy) must lead a team of young X-Men to stop their greatest nemesis and save mankind from complete destruction.
As well as returning cast members Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, and Nicholas Hoult, X-Men: Apocalypse will also introduce Alexandra Shipp, Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Lana Condor, Oscar Isaac, Ben Hardy, Olivia Munn, and a number of others. The movie is now playing in theaters. Share your thoughts in the comments below!
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