Casting News: Nightcrawler cast for X-Men Apocalypse

Announced very late last night on director Bryan Singer's Instagram page, 18 year old Australian actor Kodi Smit-Mcphee has been cast as a young Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler for the upcoming X-Men: Apocalypse.

This young actor is no stranger to apocalyptic scenarios either, seeing as he portrayed the son of Viggo Mortensen in the 2009 film The Road and the son of Jason Clarke in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. He also starred in the American remake of the Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In opposite of Chloë Grace Moretz, as well voicing Norman Babcock, the lead character in the animated film Paranorman. 

Now he tackles the role of Nightcrawler, the mutant with the ability to teleport by traveling through another dimension. He also has a somewhat demonic appearance including blue fur, a long tail, three fingers on each hand, and two toes on each foot. His look comes from his parents Azazel and Mystique, played respectively by Jason Flemying and Jennifer Lawrence.

Nightcrawler is one of the more interesting characters in the X-Men universe, seeing as how he is one of the few who cannot actively pass as human. Unless they decide to give him the image-inducer, which gives him the appearance of a normal human and was used very prominently in the animated series X-Men: Evolution. 

With all of the time line altering that took place as a result to X-Men: Days of Future Past it will be interesting to see how everything will fall into place.

X-Men: Apocalypse hits theaters May 27th, 2016.