X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) - SDCC TRAILER REACTION

X-Men: Days of Future Past in 2014 was a brilliant film, proving to be the best of X-Men franchise so far, as well as being my 2nd favourite film of last year. X-Men: First Class before then was fantastic as well, even with some poor villains, and The Wolverine (2013) was also great, so even after X-Men Origins: Wolverine and X-Men: The Last Stand, the franchise has kept going.
Days of Future Past seems to have reinvigorated 20th Century Fox's hopes for this franchise o get even bigger, with Fant4stic being sold as from the studio who brought you X-Men: Days of Future Past, Deadpool and Gambit spin-offs coming next year, Wolverine 3 and Fant4stic 2 in 2017, X-Men: Apocalypse (the subject of this reaction) and Fantastic Four vs X-Men movie planned for 2018.
Whoah. That's a hell of a lot of movies.
Anyway, the SDCC trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse has been leaked online, so I decided to watch it and see what it was like. I was really surprised - Apocalypse looks brilliant.
The plot seems to follow the X-Men discovering the very first mutant, known as Apocalypse, who believes that the mutants have lost their ways. Everything else is under wraps, but it looks like the X-Men are in for their biggest battle yet. While some complain that DOFP's ending ruined any tension for Apocalypse, where was Magneto or Mystique? We have yet to find out, and I'll be interested to see how they close these characters' arcs in the film.
Otherwise, the story seems to be the perfect continuation of the previous film, now with an alternate future for the characters which allows this sequel to create a new timeline based on the now only-canonical First Class and Days of Future Past, which gives Bryan Singer a lot of creative direction to make a more comic book-like X-Men franchise.
So, yeah, I'm looking forward to X-Men: Apocalypse.
X-Men: Apocalypse is released in May 2016.

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