New trailer for X Men: Apocalypse shows Sydney Opera House turning into dust

THE latest trailer for the new X Men film Apocalypse features the destruction of Australia’s most famous building ... and teases the return of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine.

SYDNEY’S famous Opera House comes a cropper in the new trailer for the latest film in the X Men franchise, X Men: Apocalypse.

The film, which opens on May 27, pits our heroes against Apocalypse, the first mutant. After several thousand years in deep sleep, he’s risen, and out to prove he’s a major badass by turning international landmarks into piles of dust.

The new trailer shows New York’s Brooklyn Bridge, an unidentified building and Sydney’s Opera House being vaporised as Apocalypse announces his intent.

“Everything they’ve built will fall and from the ashes of their world we’ll build a better one,” he vows.

It’s not the first time Sydney’s Opera House has met a grisly end in the movies.

Posters for the Brad Pitt vehicle World War Z (2013) showed the world-famous landmark burning, while in Independence Day (1996) it was the site of a crashed alien mothership. The Opera House also appeared in the final scene of Sunshine (2007), showing the extent of the deep freeze that had engulfed the planet.

The most popular world landmark to feature in disaster movies is probably New York’s Statue of Liberty. It’s been destroyed time and again on celluloid, with memorable appearances in Planet of the Apes (1968), Deep Impact (1998), The Day After Tomorrow (2004) and Cloverfield (2008).

The X Men: Apocalypse trailer is also notable for its final moment, which teases the return of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine.

Jackman posted a snippet of the trailer on his Instagram account yesterday.

Originally published as New trailer for X Men: Apocalypse shows Sydney Opera House turning into dust