Kodi Smit-McPhee’s transformation as X-Men’s Nightcrawler has been unveiled – but only for quick-fingered fans.

Director Bryan Singer shared an image of the 18-year-old Australian, who will portray the teleporting mutant in X-Men: Apocalypse, on Twitter but soon pulled the pic.

The actor also retweeted the photo, but just as quickly as he did so, he also deleted it.

However, some news outlets were quick to save the image.

Kodi, who has starred in Let Me In, Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes and The Road, is amongst the newcomers including Game Of Thrones’ Sophie Turner, ex-EastEnders actor Ben Hardy and Olivia Munn to join the third X-Men film in the latest trilogy.

James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult will reprise their roles in the movie, which has started shooting in Montreal.

Bryan has shared production images on his Instagram page, with the latest one captioned: “First day of shooting #XMEN #XMenApocalypse at the mall. Around #1983.”

X-Men: Apocalypse is scheduled to be released in May 2016.