Tough news, David Goyer:
your Magneto origin movie is dead in the water. So says Bryan Singer,
who talked to the Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision blog about signing on to X-Men: First Class (so
glad the internet changed things! Now Bryan Singer can avoid the trades
when speaking to the fans and speak directly to the trades’ fake
fansite blogs!). See, First Class is
basically the X-Men origin story, as well as the story of the
friendship – and falling out – of young(er) Xavier and Magneto.
According to Singer:
This
story would probably utilize some of the Magneto [movie] story because
it deals with a young Magneto, so it might supersede that because this
would explore that relationship between a young energetic professor and
a disenfranchised victim of the Holocaust.
What the Heat Vision blog failed to ask Singer is why the fuck are all X-Men movies now prequels? It isn’t like the Earth was exploded in X3;
we can follow new adventures of these characters without becoming
hopelessly trapped in the past. I just want someone to go on the record
saying the actors all cost too much now, since that’s the only
reasonable answer to why the X-Men franchise is stuck in reverse.
Meanwhile, Singer says that barring unforseen development circumstances his Jack the Giant Killer movie will be next, so I wouldn’t expect X-Men: First Class for at least three years.
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And ANOTHER thing about Avatar is…oh, wait, wrong comment section….
Actually, this appears to be following the strategy employed by Christopher Nolan with Batman Begins and Dark Knight. They are going all the way back to the beginning. This is an odd take to me simply because they are dropping characters such as Wolverine, Storm, etc. who were not introduced until the Seventies. Obviously, I am assuming that they are going with the Sixties version of X-Men which largely was Beast, Marvel Girl, Cyclops, Iceman, and Angel. It appears that they want to "reboot" the series by going to the origin stories which have not been done on film(outside Wolverine which is a poor example). This is not that revolutionary and it is probably an attempt to revive the series and keep it from Disney.
This article is snarky, laden with obtuse egotistical jargon, and poorly written.
I just don't feel like people really care about a xmen first class movie. It could be good but I would rather see a X4.
I'd rather see an X-Factor movie, heavy on Jamie Madrox and Tough Guy.
I have to agree with Brasky visions comment. Madrox was not utilized the way he could have been and if anybody has read the series" Multiple Choice", they could see what a facinating nd complex character he is and not just a guy who spins off duplicates. A Madrox movie would be cool. He is not the villian or idiot that was in X3. Give the Graphic Novel " Multiple Choice " a look and see
Well hopefully itll be the real first class and during the story something happens that that Cable comes back to save someone and alters the future so the 3 xmen films happened in different reality…
#5 it's strong guy not tough guy, you fucking idiot. God, you people know nothing about comics.
Woodbury may be onto something, if you're going to go back to the begining, why not erase everything that we've seen. (Ala Star Trek)
PS Devin, I respect your Avatar opinion (although I don't agree) but lately your articles have all had a "you all are fucking morons" vibe. Check that, and we'll all enjoy hearing your side. Regardless if it isn't ours.
Take Woodbury's Cable idea, throw in Deadpool {the REAL one} and, just for kicks, do a cross-over with DC's Booster Gold and I think we'd have ourselves a winner! At the very least it'd be interesting..
Movie producers don't care what happened in some funny-book 50 years ago.
They might not care about that, but they care about that tennage audiences will make of another action superhero flick. Personally, I think this is a good idea. A Magneto film might be more obtuse and would involve more out of the way characters (who a young audience wouldn't care about) in order to create a story about a villian who wins.
And, inclding this purported film, 2 out of 5 X Men films would be/are prequels. Drop that shit and focus on whether they have a good story to tell. Yes, Magneto and Xavier live in the story, but there are other characters we have not met yet who may live or die. Just try and enjoy movies, you dour fucks.
#3: What on Earth do you mean by "obtuse egotistical jargon?"
Cost to much to bring them back???
We all know Hugh would be on board.
Same with Patrick Stewart.
Ian McKellon would most likely sign up.
Forget Halle Berry.
Bring back Famke and Mardsen, they'd do it for a 6 pack of diet coke.
Ann Paquin… well, if they decide to do somthing with her character, bring her back, if she's just to sit in the background, then leave her alone and say she was cured
I for one am completely uninterested in anything x after the unforgivably terrible wolverine movie. I mean, how do you fuck up wolverine that bad? I haven't even been able to consider going back to read my old Larry Hama or Claremont era wolverine books because of it. Kill the whole franchise and do as Brasky said with xfactor or maybe even better, new mutants. Or hell, I don't think even a speedball movie could possibly be as bad as wolverine origins. Ugh.
After months of statistical analysis, it's now clear that if Devin took all the wasted words and minutes spent whining about what other movie websites do or don't do, he'd have enough time and energy to finish at least one of the on-going CHUD features he's abandoned by the side of the highway along the way. It would seem Star Trekkin' is beyond saving, but surely there's still time to revive Going The Distance? Come on! It's only been three weeks. It can still be saved! Just see one idea through to completion instead of getting tangled up in rambling straw man editorials or bitterly sulking that the rest of the movie websites don't meet your expectations. Just once. Finish something positive. It'll do your soul good.
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