Quicksilver was the highlight of X-Men: Days of Future Past, overshadowing Hugh Jackman and Michael Fassbender‘s performances. With X-Men: Apocalypse setting the bar so high among the X-Men movies, Quicksilver had to keep up with everything that will be happening in the film.
Evan Peters himself declared that the movie will be bigger and better and he mentioned that his scene will be fun and have some new elements:
This year, we're working on something that's bigger and better, keeping the same elements that worked, then adding a few new ones. I'm really excited to see it all cut together, and I'm excited for people to see it, too. I think it's going to be a really fun sequence in what is going to be a massive X-Men movie. (MTV)
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X-Men has a reliable character for amazing sequences: Quicksilver
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The Quicksilver scene in Days of Future Past was shot during the last two days of the project in a small area, the Pentagon cafeteria. We cannot say the same about the Quicksilver scene from Apocalypse. That one took one and a half months of filming for a three-minute sequence. In his recent post on Instagram, Bryan Singer mentions this and, most importantly, that Evan Peters was the most hard-working actor on set.
In an interview for Empire, the director talked about the implications and the technology used for shooting the Quicksilver sequence for X-Men: Apocalypse:
There's one sequence that took one and a half months to shoot for three minutes of film. It involves the most complex camera moves, very sophisticated explosive algorithms, 3-D Phantom cameras traveling at 50 mph while shooting at 3,100 frames per second.
Fans will definitely compare the two scenes: the one from Days of Future Past with the one from Apocalypse. Given the effort and the technology used, the second one should be explosive.
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