The AI trailer teases Xavier’s College of Gifted Children as an imposing, museum-like compound with a big glass entrance and distinguished “X” insignia. It additionally introduces a number of different places — together with Magneto’s hideout and the X-Mansion, which seems to be separate from the college on this setting.
The varied mutant heroes and villains operating round these spectacular environs make for an interesting group. Main the pack are superhero franchise veteran Josh Brolin as Wolverine and Jensen Ackles as Cyclops, each clad in colourful costumes which are a far cry from the X-Males trilogy’s darkish uniforms. Professor X is none apart from Star Trek star Leonard Nimoy, and the opposite X-Males-affiliated characters are a laundry record of main names. The trailer exhibits Matthew McConaughey as Gambit, Natalie Portman as Rogue, Nicole Kidman as Jean Gray, Jada Pinkett-Smith as Storm, Rami Malek as Nightcrawler, Bruce Campbell as Morph, Ryan Gosling as Angel, Scarlett Johansson as Dazzler, Idris Elba as Bishop, Hayden Christensen as Iceman, Bryan Cranston as Beast, Emma Watson as Kitty Pryde, Christian Bale as Nathan “X-Man” Gray, Gemma Chan as Jubilee, Scott Adkins as Fantomex, Vin Diesel as Colossus, and Ewan McGregor as Cannonball.
Their opponents are not any much less formidable. The trailer imagines Heath Ledger as Pyro, Tom Hardy as Sabretooth, Jennifer Garner as Mystique, “Reacher” star Alan Ritchson as Juggernaut, Rosamund Pike as Emma Frost, and Jason Isaacs as a very fearsome-looking Mister Sinister. A number of characters from the Deadpool films additionally seem. Seann William Scott performs a suspiciously fresh-faced Deadpool, whereas Ron Perlman performs Cable, Kate Beckinsale is Domino, Michael Jai White is Bedlam, and rounding out the squad is Alan Tudyk as Shatterstar.