High Quality Version Of ‘Cyclops’ And ‘Jean Grey’ X-MEN: APOCALYPSE Concept Art

Why are Cyclops and Jean Grey battling it out with Storm? Who knows, but perhaps this version of the character will start off on the site of Apocalypse before seeing the light and siding with Charles Xavier’s X-Men! We’ll have to wait and see on that one, but the concept art above is a much better quality version that what we saw previously. And hey, no more black leather!

X-Men: Apocalypse, directed by Bryan Singer (X-Men: Days of Future Past), will hit theaters on May 27, 2016 and stars Jennifer Lawrence (Mystique), Michael Fassbender (Magneto), James McAvoy (Charles Xavier), Nicholas Hoult (Beast), Oscar Isaac (Apocalypse), Rose Byrne (Moira McTaggert), Sophie Turner (Jean Grey), Alexandra Shipp (Storm), Kodi Smit-McPhee (Nightcrawler), Tye Sheridan (Cyclops), Ben Hardy (Angel), Olivia Munn(Psylocke), Lucas Till(Havok) and Lana Condor (Jubillee).

Prof. X To Go Bald & Havok And Cyclops Are Related For X-MEN APOCALYPSE

The latest BTS image from the set of X-Men: Apocalypse is light on mutants, but we are introduced the Cyclops and Havok’s folks. Though Scott and Alex Summers obviously share a surname, it’s never actually been confirmed that the two characters were brothers until now. The X-movie timeline is kind of all over the place after so much retconning and semi-rebooting, but since we know Lucas Till is returning as Havok and Tye Sheridan is playing Cyclops, it’s safe to assume they’ve made the latter the younger of the two.

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Since X-Men: First Class was released in 2011, fans have been wondering when James McAvoy would shave his head to portray Charles Xavier in the same way as the comic books. There were no signs in X-Men: Days of Future Past of the character losing his hair, but we now know for sure that he’ll be bald in next year’s X-Men: Apocalypse. It took a while, but this is definitely long overdue.

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X-Men: Apocalypse, directed by Bryan Singer (X-Men: Days of Future Past), will hit theaters on May 27, 2016 and stars Jennifer Lawrence (Mystique), Michael Fassbender (Magneto), James McAvoy (Charles Xavier), Nicholas Hoult (Beast), Oscar Isaac (Apocalypse), Rose Byrne (Moira McTaggert), Sophie Turner (Jean Grey), Alexandra Shipp (Storm), Kodi Smit-McPhee (Nightcrawler), Tye Sheridan (Cyclops), Ben Hardy (Angel), Olivia Munn(Psylocke), Lucas Till(Havok) and Lana Condor (Jubillee).

Younger Jean Grey, Storm, And Cyclops Have Been Casted

The younger versions of Storm, Jean Grey and Cyclops have been cast in X-Men: Apocalypse.

Director Bryan Singer announced on Twitter that Alexandra Shipp will play Storm, Sophie Turner will take on Jean, and Tye Sheridan will star as Cyclops.

“Meet our new and brilliant young mutants” the director tweeted.

Meet our new and brilliant young mutants: @Alexshipppp as #Storm @SophieT as #JeanGrey and @TyeSheridan as #Cyclops. #XmenApocalypse
— Bryan Singer (@BryanSinger) January 23, 2015

18-year-old Turner, who plays Sansa Stark in HBO’s Game of Thrones, is the most recognizable name in the bunch, although many may recall 18-year-old Sheridan from his roles in the 2012 coming-of-age drama Mud and Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life. 24-year-old Shipp is a relative newcomer to the big screen, and is perhaps best known as KT Rush in the Nickelodeon mystery show House of Anubis.

The trio will be taking the torches from the older versions of their characters in the original X-Men trilogy (and last year’s brilliant time-bender Days of Future Past), Halle Berry, Famke Janssen and James Marsden.

All three young actors were rumored to be under consideration for the roles earlier this month. They will join X-Men regulars Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, and James McAvoy, as well as Episode VII’s Oscar Isaac, in the 2016 film.

Shooting starts on X-Men: Apocalypse in Montreal this April for a May 27, 2016, release.