Oscar Isaac's "X-Men: Apocalypse" title villain made an ominous pose alongside co-stars Olivia Munn as the telepathic ninja Psylocke and Michael Fassbender who makes a reprise for the younger Magneto in the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly.

Described by the magazine as "a giant 5,000 year-old Egyptian mutant who goes by that very unfriendly name," Apocalypse is one of the most awaited characters in the upcoming installment of Fox's X-Men franchise.

"He's believed to be the first mutant, whatever that means," Isaac described his character. "He is the creative-slash-destructive force of this earth. When things start to go awry, or when things seem like they're not moving towards evolution, he destroys those civilizations."

According to the report, creators of the movies had a difficult time making a sequel for the blockbuster hit "X-Men: Days of Future Past" because it not only combined casts from both the old and new generations, it also became more difficult to top since the stakes in the movie have already been very high.

"The problem with Days of Future Past is it's hard to sequelize. Whenever we talked about the sequel, the challenge was that it needed to feel not necessarily bigger visually, but that the stakes needed to feel bigger," writer-producer Simon Kinberg explained.

That is when the team thought of unleashing the X-Men's intimidating foe: Apocalypse.

Of course, the battle would not as massive as one expects if Apocalypse did not have "special assistants," Yahoo Movies reported.

"It's a chaotic world of conflict and war and destruction. It's one giant civilization that now requires one giant culling. That's why he needs ­special assistants in this process," director Brian Singer explained.

While he may be one of the Fox team's "creative way" of doing better than the highest grossing film of the movie franchise, he is not the only new character fans of epic film series are excitedly waiting for.

In a separate report posted on July 16, Entertainment Weekly revealed photos of the new additions to the cast who would portray the younger generation of the iconic characters of X-Men, such as the telepathic red-head Jean Grey who would later become Charles Xavier's most prized students, portrayed by "Game of Thrones" star Sophie Turner.

Also included in the young X-Men team would be a young and still uncontrollable Storm portrayed by Alexandra Shipp, fashionable and "colorful" Jubilee played by Lana Condor, German teleporting and comedic mutant Nightcrawler portrayed by Kodi Smit-McPhee, and a teenager that shoots laser beams from his eyes known as Cyclops played by Tye Sheridan.