X-Men Apocalypse trailer: first full look at Oscar Isaac in villain mode
"No more false gods"
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Due to all the talk surrounding Captain America and a certain web-slinger, you'd be forgiven for forgetting that the new X-Men film is just around the corner - and thanks to this full-length trailer, you're unlikely to forget.
X-Men: Apocalypse - the sixth in the franchise (not including Hugh Jackman's Wolverine films) - is set a whole decade after Days of Future Past, which was released in 2014.
Seeming to have an enhanced role this time around is Jennifer Lawrence's Mystique (producers ensuring they get the most out of the Oscar-winner before she moves on to pastures new) in a film that centres on the awakened Apocalypse (Oscar Isaac in villain mode), a God-like mutant revered as the first of his kind. The trailer ends with Isaac's villain choking Mystique.
Apocalypse's four followers include an officially bad Magneto (Michael Fassbender), Psylocke (Olivia Munn), Nightcrawler (Kodi Smitt-McPhee) and Storm (Alexandra Shipp).
Returning to direct is Bryan Singer while James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne and Evan Peters all reprise their roles.
Alongside Isaac and Munn, other new cast additions include Sophie Turner (Game of Thrones' Sansa Stark) as a young Jean Grey and former EastEnders actor Ben Hardy who makes his Hollywood debut as winged mutant Angel.
X-Men: Apocalypse is released 18 May.
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