{"id":20490,"date":"2015-04-27T11:26:25","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T18:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=20490"},"modified":"2023-01-23T14:45:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T22:45:28","slug":"x-men-apocalypse-nightcrawler-first-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/x-men-apocalypse-nightcrawler-first-look\/","title":{"rendered":"See the New, Young Nightcrawler Before He Teleports Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest installment of 20th Century Fox&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?theme=X-Men&amp;id=EN-407186506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>X-Men<\/strong><\/a> franchise, <em>X-Men: Apocalypse<\/em>, begins shooting today. To kick off the day, we got our first look at young actor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/2015\/02\/18\/x-men-apocalypse-young-nightcrawler-cast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kodi Smit-McPhee<\/a> as Nightcrawler &#8211; for a moment.<\/p>\n<p>20th Century Fox, director Bryan Singer, and McPhee all posted photos and videos of the blue, teleporting mutant across social media before deleting them not long after. Singer&#8217;s caption seemed to hint that this look would be a limited time thing:<\/p>\n<p><center><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>First day on set! Here is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KodiSmitMcpheee\">@kodismitmcpheee<\/a> as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Nightcrawler?src=hash\">#Nightcrawler<\/a>. Catch him before he\u2019s gone.\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f8ppx6MCBn\">https:\/\/t.co\/f8ppx6MCBn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bryan Singer (@BryanSinger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BryanSinger\/status\/592652291993432065\">April 27, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>McPhee also deleted his Instagram post and Fox deleted their Tweet. It&#8217;s too coincidental for it <em>not<\/em> to be a marketing move and it does have people talking. Luckily, screencaps were grabbed before it was too late.<\/p>\n<p>Nightcrawler isn&#8217;t the only look we have of the first day of filming. Writer\/producer Simon Kinberg tweeted this photo this morning:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Day 1 of the Apocalypse&#8230;. Back to the 80s&#8230;. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/0ecjnXX23l\" class=\"broken_link\">pic.twitter.com\/0ecjnXX23l<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Simon Kinberg (@Kinberg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kinberg\/status\/592674867583045633\">April 27, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>At least we know when <em>Apocalypse<\/em> will be set. It&#8217;s a pretty neat photo! We wonder who will be going to the movies.<\/p>\n<p><em>X-Men: Apocalypse<\/em> is set to hit theatres on May 27, 2016, directed by Bryan Singer, and starring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne, Alexandra Shipp, Tye Sheridan, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Olivia Munn, and Oscar Isaac.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of Nightcrawler&#8217;s look? Do you like their marketing ploy? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest installment of 20th Century Fox&#8217;s X-Men franchise, X-Men: Apocalypse, begins shooting today. To kick off the day, we got our first look at young actor Kodi Smit-McPhee as Nightcrawler &#8211; for a moment. 20th Century Fox, director Bryan Singer, and McPhee all posted photos and videos of the blue, teleporting mutant across social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":20495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,108,388,558],"tags":[888,1971,3145,112,2106,2104,2666,1859],"yst_prominent_words":[12154,15156,20852,20856,20854,15053,20853,20851,16688,16684,8083,20857,20336,6133,6869,20855,9479,17113,6355,15048],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20490"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68834,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20490\/revisions\/68834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20490"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=20490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}