X-Men: Apocalypse

X-Men: Apocalypse
Official poster shows The X-Men team with Professor X sitting in his wheelchair, surrounded by friend and foe mutants, with the film's titular enemy Apocalypse behind them with a big close-up over his head and face, with nuclear missiles flying into the air, and the film's title, credits, billing, and release date below them, and the film's slogan "Only the Strong will Survive" above.
Middle East release poster
Directed byBryan Singer
Screenplay bySimon Kinberg
Story by
Based on
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyNewton Thomas Sigel
Edited by
Music byJohn Ottman
Production
companies
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release dates
  • May 9, 2016 (2016-05-09) (London)
  • May 27, 2016 (2016-05-27) (United States)
Running time
144 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States[2][3]
LanguageEnglish
Budget$178 million[4]
Box office$543.9 million[4]

X-Men: Apocalypse is a 2016 American superhero film directed and produced by Bryan Singer and written by Simon Kinberg from a story by Singer, Kinberg, Michael Dougherty, and Dan Harris. The film is based on the fictional X-Men characters that appear in Marvel Comics. It is the sixth mainline installment in the X-Men film series and the ninth installment overall. It is the sequel to X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) and stars James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Oscar Isaac, Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne, Tye Sheridan, Sophie Turner, Olivia Munn, and Lucas Till. In the film, the ancient mutant En Sabah Nur / Apocalypse is inadvertently revived in 1983 and plans to recreate the world in his own image, leading the X-Men to try to stop him and defeat his team of mutants.

The film was announced by Singer in December 2013, with Kinberg, Dougherty, and Harris attached to develop the story. Casting began in October 2014, while principal photography commenced in April 2015 in Montreal and ended in August of the same year.

X-Men: Apocalypse premiered in London on May 9, 2016, and was released in the United States on May 27, 2016, in RealD 3D, IMAX 3D, 4DX and Dolby Cinema formats by 20th Century Fox. The film received mixed reviews from critics. A sequel, titled Dark Phoenix, was released on June 7, 2019.

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  2. ^ "X-Men: Apocalypse". Film. Lumiere. Archived from the original on October 16, 2021. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
  3. ^ "X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on March 2, 2017. Retrieved April 26, 2019.
  4. ^ a b "X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on March 4, 2017. Retrieved November 16, 2016.