"X-Men: Apocalypse" star Evan Peters was a breath of fresh air as Quicksilver in "X-Men: Days of Future Past." In "X-Men: Apocalypse," the "Invasion" actor is promised more air time. What's more his participation in "X-Men: Apocalypse" will bring in something unexpected.
According to the Australia Network, "X-Men: Apocalypse" will go into Quicksilver's real relationship with Magneto (Michael Fassbender). Peter Maximoff is Erik Lehnsherr's son. When Magneto's power showed up during his rescue from the Pentagon in "X-Men: Days of Future Past" Quicksilver quipped, "My mom once knew a guy who could do that." Even non-readers of Marvel comics were quick to clue in on it.
JoBlo reports that Peters described how Quicksilver's road to Magneto's side would pan out in "X-Men: Apocalypse." Peters was noticeably careful not to give too much away besides what's already known in the Marvel comic books.
"I have learned that he's my father at this point and I am trying to ... I don't know what I can say. Yeah. It's like an adoptive child or any kind of child who has a strange father trying to ..." he said. "He knows who he is now so he is trying to find him. He's been searching for him. It's been 10 years and he hasn't found him and then something happens."
Will Quicksilver be pulling off any stunt in "X-Men: Apocalypse" that is anywhere as cool as what he did in "X-Men: Days of Future Past?" Uproxx gives Peters' pretty affirmative feedback on this.
"The special effects team is amazing. Bryan Schmears over at Second Unit, everybody just made that whole sequence awesome, I thought," Peters remarked. "I was just a minion. They just told me what to do so I didn't really have much to do with it but I was curious to see how they were going to top it and if they could and I think they have."
"I'm very excited to see it myself," Peters said earnestly. "I'm excited for everybody to see it because we've been working hard on it." This is certainly a silver lining to hold on to given that Quicksilver is now being pulled into what Parent Herald reports as the darkest "X-Men" film by far.
In the meantime, Fassbender described how Magneto's story will ease back into the "X-Men: Apocalypse" plot after his disastrous escape in "X-Men: Days of Future Past."
"I start off in Poland," Fassbender described. "Erik is basically living a normal life, has a family, has fallen in love, and has basically disappeared for the last eight years or so. He doesn't use his powers, has left that life behind and lives a sort of simple life."
His character is, however, seduced back into the fray by the wily Apocalypse to play a significant part in bringing the conflict voltage up in "X-Men: Apocalypse." Fassbender explained why Magneto would be willing to play side-kick to Apocalypse.
"But he appreciates that this guy is going to do what he couldn't do," Fassbender said. "He's got just so much more power than him, he's such an immense force."
"In a way, it's like that classic thing of joining any cult or radical group, he's caught him at a very low, vulnerable point where he doesn't really care anymore whether he dies or not or what happens, so he's like, 'Yeah I'll join this guy. I'll go on this path of judgment,'" Fassbender explained further. "Apocalypse is sort of bringing judgment to the Earth."
