Recently, we've had official confirmation that Ben Hardy will be playing Angel in Bryan Singer's upcoming mutant mash-up X-Men: Apocalypse - as well as news that Olivia Munn will take on Psylocke - but now there's some more artwork to enjoy, this time of Kodi Smit-McPhee as the young Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner), the teleporting superhero first played on the big screen by Alan Cumming in 2003's X-2.
Don’t blink or you’ll miss it. Check out this first look of [@KodiSmitMcpheee](https://twitter.com/KodiSmitMcpheee) as [#Nightcrawler](https://twitter.com/hashtag/Nightcrawler?src=hash) in [#XMenApocalypse](https://twitter.com/hashtag/XMenApocalypse?src=hash). > > — X-Men Movies (@XMenMovies) [April 27, 2015](https://twitter.com/XMenMovies/status/592667055406518272)
X-Men: Apocalypse, which reunites the First Class/Days Of Future Past gang of James McAvoy’s Professor X, Michael Fassbender’s Magneto, Jennifer Lawrence’s Mystique and Nicholas Hoult’s Beast, along with newcomers Munn, Hardy, Oscar Isaac as the titular bad guy, Tye Sheridan as Cyclops, Sophie Turner as Jean Grey, Alexandra Shipp as Storm and Lana Condor as Jubilee, opens on May 19 next year.
And for more world exclusive concept art and insight into the movie from Singer and writer/producer Simon Kinberg, pick up the new issue of **Empire when it hits newsstands this Thursday, April 30.