Days of Future Past "Look upon the future and tremble!": The Official Apocalypse Thread

[FilmNerdJamie]

The Dark Knight didn't "close the book."

As a matter of fact, Transformers did.

 

[Serpico Jones]

Zack Snyder said in an interview that Warner Bros first offered him Superman in 2007 after 300 hit big. WB was never moving further with an SR sequel.

 

[marvelrobbins]

Zack Snyder said in an interview that Warner Bros first offered him Superman in 2007 after 300 hit big. WB was never moving further with an SR sequel.

That's revisionist history.back In 2007 they were talking about a Superman
Returns sequel.

 

[Mysteryman]

Singer talked a few times about tenative start dates .
None of it happened, but SOMEBODY at WB was telling him it was going to happen.

 

[gkokujin]

I'm anxious to see how they have Apocalypse look, I hope they don't defer too much from the comic but also maybe tweak/alter his appearance a little for film.

I hope he "regular" guise is the same as the African style in Cyclops & Phoenix series. I'd LOVE to see how archaic his armor extensions would look throughout time.

X:TAS has truly ruined me on how Apocalypse should look, behave, and sound.

 

[Dasher10]

No, it means 'The First One' in Arabic, according to Marvel. A name he was given by his adoptive father because of his weird appearance of grey skin and blue lips.

Actually, it means "The Seven Lights" as there are seen heavens in Islam and Apocalypse fancies himself to be god. He LOVES using religious imagery to enforce his idea of apocalyptic salvation to deliver mutants from the human hordes.

 

[gkokujin]

En Sabah Nur was born nearly five thousand years ago in a lone settlement on the very edge of the Amentet and the very edge of the Valley of the Kings, in Egypt, as a member of a tribe in Akkaba. Even as an infant, the child inspired fear, being born with gray skin and blue lines running across his lips and face. Ugly and malformed, the infant was abandoned by the tribe, to die in the harsh desert sun. However, out of the desert, the Sandstormers, a roving band of feared nomadic raiders, slaughter the citizens of Akkaba. Their leader, Baal of the Crimson Sands, found the infant crying and recognized the potential power in the child. Baal named the infant En Sabah Nur, literally meaning "The First One", and raised him as his own son.[1]

 

[Dasher10]

En Sabah Nur was born nearly five thousand years ago in a lone settlement on the very edge of the Amentet and the very edge of the Valley of the Kings, in Egypt, as a member of a tribe in Akkaba. Even as an infant, the child inspired fear, being born with gray skin and blue lines running across his lips and face. Ugly and malformed, the infant was abandoned by the tribe, to die in the harsh desert sun. However, out of the desert, the Sandstormers, a roving band of feared nomadic raiders, slaughter the citizens of Akkaba. Their leader, Baal of the Crimson Sands, found the infant crying and recognized the potential power in the child. Baal named the infant En Sabah Nur, literally meaning "The First One", and raised him as his own son.[1]

That's still a mistranslation.

 

[gkokujin]

doesn't matter, its what Marvel says his name means.

 

[Naji Assan]

I'm anxious to see how they have Apocalypse look, I hope they don't defer too much from the comic but also maybe tweak/alter his appearance a little for film.

I want it closest to the source as possible.

He needs to be larger than life. X-Men's answer to Sauron

 

[gkokujin]

the "A" might be too hokey...

 

[gkokujin]

I swear, if he says the line "i am as far beyond mutant, as they are beyond you" i will explode in the theater.

 

[gkokujin]

That's still a mistranslation.

According to the writers at Marvel, "En Sabah Nur" translates to "The First One" in Arabic. However, the phrase actually translates into something more akin to "Good Morning". The reason is that the term is grammatically incorrect, as it should be "Sabah an-Nur", assuming that was what the Marvel writers were shooting for. It can also mean "The Seven Lights"; with "Sabah" literally meaning "seven" and "Nur" meaning "light" in Arabic. This is interesting for Islam depicts the eternal afterlife as having seven heavens, and could be a direct reference to his god-like powers. Since Apocalypse was born thousands of years before modern Arabic existed, this must either be a translation of his true name, or it is a name in Proto-Semitic that simply coincidentally resembles Arabic words. "En Sabah Nur" can also mean "birth of light", "Awakened Light",and (in literal sense) "Dawn".

well hot damn...I still like first one. I wonder when they started using this?

 

[Naji Assan]

I swear, if he says the line "i am as far beyond mutant, as they are beyond you" i will explode in the theater.

I will also explode.

 

[psylockolussus]

So this guy needs to mop the floor with the X-Men come 2016.

He shouldn't be defeated after their first fight.

Yes!

I'm anxious to see how they have Apocalypse look, I hope they don't defer too much from the comic but also maybe tweak/alter his appearance a little for film.

With the looks of Nightcrawler, Mystique (except for the costume), Blink and Azazel being close to their looks in the comics, I'd say Fox shouldn't have trouble adapting Apocalypse's look in the big screen.

 

[Sub-Zero]

so apocalypse may mean cable could make an appearance. since cyclops is dead and jean was never cloned, and is also dead, what's cable's new origin? are they going to make him a de-powered wolverine of a far far far away future like ultimate, or will they never touch on his lineage since his parents could never have made him?

also the rumor is we're not going to see apocalypse in his comic form, but he'll be [BLACKOUT] inhabiting fassbender magneto [/BLACKOUT]

 

[Great Mind(s)]

My theory is that in an altered timeline, Scott and Jean live long enough to make him.

 

[Dasher10]

My theory is that in an altered timeline, Scott and Jean live long enough to make him.

This. DOFP will retcon the entire previous timeline. This creates a world where Cable can exist.

 

[JEM]

I didn't see this new before but sorry if I'm late .

Also under discussion that day, if only briefly, was a picture that Singer had posted to Twitter of himself and X2 writers Mike Dougherty and Dan Harris working on… something. On what? Well, they had apparently made a deal with Marvel several years before to write an X-Men comic, and they hadn’t yet delivered it.

But then, earlier this year, they cracked the thing. It’s not yet clear what the comic will be about but there does seem to be some Days of Future Past or Apocalypse crossover, thematically at least, with the only fragment of concept I could uncover being “mutants in time.”

We’re still waiting to learn when – or indeed, if – Marvel will publish that comic. My best guess is that we’ll see it next Summer, around Days of Future Past playing in cinemas.

http://http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/12/19/bryan-singer-working-with-x2-writers-on-x-men-apocalypse-and-a-new-mutants-in-time-marvel-comic/

 

[SuperT]

Wow, so they're not only writing the movie but also a comic for Marvel? Neat!

 

[Angamb]

I didn't see this new before but sorry if I'm late .



http://http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/12/19/bryan-singer-working-with-x2-writers-on-x-men-apocalypse-and-a-new-mutants-in-time-marvel-comic/

that would be pretty cool and nice promo for the movie too.

would Rogue be in the comic at least?

we'll have to wait and see

 

[GuestStar2004]

if its a direct comic tie in it could be set either before DOFP in them lost 10 years of FC and OT or set after DOFP and explain some events after

 

[EnDz0n3]

At one time Singer, and his X2 writers Dougherty and Harris were supposed to work on a run on Ultimate X-Men.

 

[marvelrobbins]

At one time Singer, and his X2 writers Dougherty and Harris were supposed to work on a run on Ultimate X-Men.

I always wondered why that didn't happen

If they do a tiein comic then I guess marvel Is hoping DOFP can boost comic sales.

 

[psylockolussus]

I don't have my hopes up for a tie-in comic book. Right now, it seems unrealistic to me.