X-Men: Apocalypse is a 2016 superhero film directed by Bryan Singer, based on the fictional X-Men characters that appear in Marvel Comics.  It is the ninth installment in the X-Men film series and a sequel to 2014’s X-Men: Days of Future Past.  The film stars James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Oscar Isaac, Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne, Tye Sheridan, Alexandra Shipp, Sophie Turner, Olivia Munn and Lucas Till, and the plot follows the ancient mutant En Sabah Nur (Isaacs) who awakens in 1983 and plans to cleanse the human race and take over the world, leading the X-Men to try to stop him and defeat his team of renegade mutants.