If you’re at all familiar with the X-Men comic books, you should know that Magneto is the father of Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch. That’s a relationship which Marvel Studios are unable to delve into due to the fact that rights issues mean they can’t explore the brother and sister’s mutant background, but that’s obviously not an issue for Fox’s X-Men franchise.

X-Men: Days of Future Past featured a very brief interaction between Magneto (Michael Fassbender) and Quicksilver (Evan Peters) in which a hint about them being related was dropped, but based on new comments from the latter, it sounds like it will play a much larger role in X-Men: Apocalypse next year (the trailer for which is expected any week now).

“Absolutely, It’s the biggest X-Men film,” Peters said when asked about the scale of the Bryan Singer helmed follow-up. The interviewer, perhaps confused by the difference between Apocalypse and a zombie apocalypse asked if the undead will factor into the movie to which the actor replied: “Ha! No, it’s not. Although that would be amazing if Apocalypse [the evil mutant] brought back the dead to help him take over the earth. I love zombies; I can’t get enough. But the story is that my character is searching for his father and wants to find him.”

“It starts there and then he jumps on the X-Men train and gets sucked up in this whole Apocalypse madness,” he added. “He tries to stop him from destroying the world.”

There’s been no mention of the Scarlet Witch factoring into X-Men: Apocalypse, but it’s going to be great to see this version of Quicksilver receive a larger role and for is relationship with Magneto to finally be explored on the big screen. Hopefully this movie does it justice, eh?