From http://basememara.com/common-initializer-patterns-swift/

SwiftyInitialization.swift

class SomeViewController: UIViewController {
 
    private typealias My = SomeViewController
    
    private let videoPlayer: AVPlayer
    private let videoPlayerLayer: AVPlayerLayer
    
    override init(nibName: String?, bundle nibBundle: NSBundle?) {
        (videoPlayer, videoPlayerLayer) = My.commonInit()
 
        super.init(nibName: nibName, bundle: nibBundle)
    }
    
    required init?(coder decoder: NSCoder) {
        (videoPlayer, videoPlayerLayer) = My.commonInit()
 
        super.init(coder: decoder)
    }
    
    private static func commonInit() -> (AVPlayer, AVPlayerLayer) {
        let player = AVPlayer(URL: NSURL(fileReferenceLiteral: "movie.mov"))
        let layer = AVPlayerLayer(player: player)
        
        return (player,layer)
    }
}

Awesome! Thanks!