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    Movie » X-Men: Apocalypse released on May 27, 2016.

    This sequel to X-Men: Days of Future Past sees the X-Men facing their biggest threat yet.

    Evan Peters Reveals More About His Role as Quicksilver in 'X-Men: Apocalypse'

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    One of the best parts of X-Men: Days of Future Past were the scenes involving Quicksilver, especially when he helped break Magneto out of jail. Will we see more of Evan Peters as Quicksilver in next year's X-Men: Apocalypse? According to a recent interview with Details, we sure will.

    Peters said that Apocalypse will be the biggest X-Men film and will have a huge scope. He went on to talk about Quicksilver's role in this gigantic film.

    [T]he story is that my character is searching for his father and wants to find him. It starts there and then he jumps on the X-Men train and gets sucked up in this whole Apocalypse madness: He tries to stop him from destroying the world.

    Looks like Quicksilver will be around for the majority of the movie and not just a few minutes in the middle. Hopefully, we'll get to see some more slow motion sequences. X-Men: Apocalypse opens on May 27, 2016.

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    He was alot better then the other guy who played quicksilver in AOU.

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    I wonder if there's any 80s songs about time that he could be listening to in this movie.

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    i didn't really care for his quicksilver i didn't hate it but didn't like it either

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    He was alot better then the other guy who played quicksilver in AOU.

    Kind of a shame, because Aaron Taylor-Johnson did pretty well in other roles. I think the treatment of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver was largely uninspired, and while I was happy they were in the movie, they didn't get any lines or particularly clever uses of their powers. Evan Peters simply had more to do, a more solid script (despite technically having more characters to juggle than AOU), and a breakout scene. AOU Quicksilver really didn't get a chance to shine.

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    #5 the_stegman  Moderator

    The (good) Quicksilver returns!

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    As revealed in Uncanny Avengers #4, Wanda and Pietro Maximoff are indeed not the children of Magneto, but of humans Marya and Django Maximoff. I doubt this will ever get mentioned.

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    Personally, I liked Aaron Taylor-Johnson's version much more.

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    if his father isn't Magneto than i don't really care. worst retcon EVER

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    I think that's why they killed off Pietro in AoU so that Evans quicksilver could be used more. Marvel has scarlet witch, Fox has quicksilver.

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    I wonder if there's any 80s songs about time that he could be listening to in this movie.

    The SDCC trailer showed him wearing a Rush shirt. I ended up going on a huge Rush binge because of it.

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    I don't even understand what that move from Marvel was supposed to be. If it was just to show that FOX won that "character war" then they could have made him die before and that be the reason for Wanda to hate Stark. But perhaps I only see it that way because I don't particularly care what character's appear in the movies...

    Good to see him back, I liked his Quicksilver.

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    @donmeca2020: Yea, I think Marvel realized that Quicksilver isn't interesting if he isn't Magneto's son, and that's why they killed him off. At least with Scarlet Witch they can use her relationship with Vision and her trouble controlling her powers to keep her interesting.

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    #13 the_stegman  Moderator

    I think that's why they killed off Pietro in AoU so that Evans quicksilver could be used more. Marvel has scarlet witch, Fox has quicksilver.

    @donmeca2020: Yea, I think Marvel realized that Quicksilver isn't interesting if he isn't Magneto's son, and that's why they killed him off. At least with Scarlet Witch they can use her relationship with Vision and her trouble controlling her powers to keep her interesting.

    I'm glad they did this. To me, Quicksilver has more potential in X-Men and Wanda can do more in Avengers with Vision.

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    @donmeca2020 said:

    He was alot better then the other guy who played quicksilver in AOU.

    Kind of a shame, because Aaron Taylor-Johnson did pretty well in other roles. I think the treatment of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver was largely uninspired, and while I was happy they were in the movie, they didn't get any lines or particularly clever uses of their powers. Evan Peters simply had more to do, a more solid script (despite technically having more characters to juggle than AOU), and a breakout scene. AOU Quicksilver really didn't get a chance to shine.

    the guy from AOU barely spoke, and just didnt give me that quicksilver feeling with him..... evan here also has a pretty good acting background considering he is in every american horror story series. i think he also fits the look better too.

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    #15  Edited By Cloakx14

    this is my favorite version of Quicksilver. i hated the Aou Quicksilver he came off as annoying.

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    @amazingwebhead: Well magneto being his father, itself was a retcon......so.............. yeah.

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    AOU Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch were lame as fk.

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    @amazingwebhead: Well magneto being his father, itself was a retcon......so.............. yeah.

    true, but it had become such a big part of both their characters since then

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    Quicksilver solos

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    #20  Edited By HexThis

    They have to at least mention Wanda! She does exist in that universe, this much we know.

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    that rare moment when the movie is truer to character than the source lol

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    AoU Quicksilver was obviously a plot device and little more; these characters shouldn't even be compared. He was a throw away to unite the team around a fallen ally.

    And for good reason. It's hard to talk about DoFP without focusing on their Quicksilver. His Magneto breakout is probably going to stand as one of the most iconic comic movie moments of our time, and for good reason. It was amazing, the best speedster use by far. I dare them to top it, and I look forward to the attempt.

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    that rare moment when the movie is truer to character than the source lol

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    He was alot better then the other guy who played quicksilver in AOU.

    Yet the AOU portrayal was more comic accurate

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    @ducey13 said:
    @donmeca2020 said:

    He was alot better then the other guy who played quicksilver in AOU.

    Yet the AOU portrayal was more comic accurate

    i don't think so.... why because he was wearing a blue colored outfit? LMFAO he had no remote likeness to the comic version of quicksilver other then the color of his clothing. at least with evan peters he had the young guy with white/greyish hair look and even had more of speaking role then the other guy.

    On a side note, at least the olsen twins little sister did well as Scarlet Witch.

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    He was alot better then the other guy who played quicksilver in AOU.

    To be fair, the DoFP made better use of quicksilver than AOU did. Aaron Taylor Johnson is a pretty good actor from what I've seen.

    AOU just didn't care enough about the twins, and even less Quicksilver than Scarlet Witch. I still loved the movie though.

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    I personally liked AoU QS more, but both were great.

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    Well, we didn't have Maury in the 80s, so shiiieet, good luck for him I guess...

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    It's funny how when the first image Evans as Quicksilver popped up for the last X-Movie, the internet blew up and hated on him. Now people are calling him the "real" Quicksilver! Oh Internet, you fickle little girl you!

    But I'm glad that they kinda confirmed that Peter is Erik's son, after only implying it in the previous movie. Should be an interesting dynamic.

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    that rare moment when the movie is truer to character than the source lol

    which is impossible.

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    People really don't see what happened?

    Marvel took Scarlet and killed off Quicksilver, while Fox took Quicksilver and made no point of Scarlet. I feel like this must have been some agreement they came to.

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    @ducey13 said:
    @donmeca2020 said:

    He was alot better then the other guy who played quicksilver in AOU.

    Yet the AOU portrayal was more comic accurate

    i don't think so.... why because he was wearing a blue colored outfit? LMFAO he had no remote likeness to the comic version of quicksilver other then the color of his clothing. at least with evan peters he had the young guy with white/greyish hair look and even had more of speaking role then the other guy.

    On a side note, at least the olsen twins little sister did well as Scarlet Witch.

    No. Because he was a jerk, and a foreign accent, actually had his sister to play his over protective brother role off of, better Hair, AND a blue colored costume. :)

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