It's been said that both Fassbender and JLaw had to be lured back with a lot of money to sign up for this movie. Those 2 specifically.
Fassy was less than happy with his role in DOFP, so I can't see him not asking for a meatier role here. JLaw has been wishy-washy with what exactly she wants out of this franchise, so she's a toss up in that case. Would she want a bigger role or is she just here for her friend? Who tf knows with that one.
But considering the reddit spoiler mentions Storm, Nightcrawler Quicksilver get the least screen time, it's safe to say Magneto and Mystique get more time than them LOL
I thought Magneto had an awesome role. Those lines at the end juxtaposed with the future X-Men team being decimated. That gave me chills.
Charlize Theron would've made a great Emma Frost.
I have to agree with this. I really could see her in the role after Atomic Blonde and she totally has a Famke Janssen build, so I can see Scott Summers falling for her. Oh, those mind games would've made for a great thriller.
They apparently knew but didn't care. I don't know if that makes it better or worse.
That character absolutely did not need to be Yukio. If they really wanted a gay character, Shatterstar was right there...
There's still Northstar too. Also, did Shatterstar die on screen? Remember the Hollywood rule, man!
Quicksilver deserves an action scene if he is in the movie and this rumoured sequence at least sounds a bit different to the two previous displays. So I dont think thats the problem.
The main issue seems to lack of creative thinking, poor knowledge of the source material and unwillingness to really study it and know how to adapt it. Kinbergs only reference points are clearly the previous films.
The problem is Fox thinks there was a success in the way Pietro stole the show with his first solo, a slow motion action scene in the Pentagon, so they have to repeat a solo action scene for the speedster in slow motion for every subsequent film. Btw, slow-mo was probably Singer's thinking the first time around and all the "fun" action elements (massive explosion, CGI, the dog, the blankets) added to it the second time around, probably not so. I mean, there are other more creative ways to move the story forward now that we know he's super fast, the viewer can fill in gaps of unseen events, one moment something's there, one moment it's not, I don't know.
Also, Pietro was way too serious in Apocalypse for me. The way he breaks the glass in the Pentagon in DOFP, that was a really cool moment for me. That devious smile really added some more depth to that character, and he's so funny during the scene at his house. Little things like that are missed. He could've been developed in conjunction with other X-Men characters, building relationships, etc. without needing to resort to what I'd call cheap copy-pasting. I don't know what else to call it, it's a very formulaic, factory-product-way of making a film, sticking to guidelines, rules, templates. As if telling a story were always so formulaic. People tell stories in all sorts of different ways and very engaging ways, you don't need to build X-Men movies with the same formula each time! X-Men is about being diverse a bit, why not try and be diverse and not present them with the same rigid format each time?
two of the biggest X-Men Characters are about to have the biggest story told for one of them in particular and were already on to Jubilees development not being paramount... Wow
Again, they clearly set up the characters of Cyc, Jean, Storm and Nightcrawler in Apocalypse to get developed going forward. We know the past films didnt do a good enough job of it. Its been the rhetoric for the last 10 years, but this film has so far given no indication it wont develop those characters. And to add to the point
