As we learned in the last X-Men movie, a) mutants watch their own web parodies, and b) it’s highly unlikely that Fox will ever reassemble its mutant all-star team for a fourth installment.
With Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine movie in the works and the rest of the grown-ups priced out of range, a proper X4 will probably never happen. But there are other possibilities: Which would you like to see?
1. A "Young Magneto" movie has been proposed. According to script spies, the scene where Mr. Miyagi exhorts him to "make these paper clips your bitch" is particularly moving.
2. There’s the oft-discussed Saved by the Genetic Anomaly: The New Class approach, which shifts the focus to Prof. X’s younger students: Bobby "Iceman" Drake, Kitty "Shadowcat" Pryde, Piotr "Colossus" Rasputin, and David "Mildly ADD" Micklethwait.
3. The bold approach: three hours of watching Prof. X try to pry his consciousness out of that coma victim’s body, culminating in a triumphant finger twitch. It will be the My Dinner with Andre of comic-book movies, and I will make it myself, using nothing but a vintage camcorder, audio snipped from old Next Generation episodes, and a very lazy friend.
Or perhaps you’d like to see something else? Make your last stand below.
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I would vote for the next generation — provided the movie is directed by Bryan Singer.
Of course the Wolverine movie is at the top of the list, but I’m not all that excited about any of the other characters really, especially Magneto, I think we’ve all had enough of that villain.
Personally I have zero interest in any X-Men sequel, prequel, spin-off, etc. for one reason: no Bryan Singer.
Whatever they make, please please please- put Emma Frost in it.
Oh, look… Gambit still doesn’t his own movie.
Magneto prequel sounds great — depth and grit, etc. The next generation bit would probably flop — none of the kids can carry (let alone open) a movie yet. Does anyone even know the actors’ names?
Cyclops Reborn…I know that James Mersden can’t be on two sets at once but I still hate hate hate what happened to Cyclops in X-Men 3!
I’m guessing that the final scene after the credits was a way to be able to justify another sequel (X4) in the event that Mr. Ratner burned and crashed. Since it didn’t burn and crash I am assuming that X4 is in the works regardless. Hollywood wants to make money (See: Hollywood buys remake rights to the already brilliant Battle Royale to only make it go from NC-17 to a rated R feature for us Americans). Plain and simple. I have a feeling that they could use the whole Phoenix-revives-comes-to-life-shtick to bring back both Colossus and Wolverine. Plus, they need Gambit and a REAL Psylocke up in the mix someday.
And if anything, Fox needs to redeem themselves after not making Storm the most powerful mutant. I mean, seriously, she can cause tornados, tsunamis, lightning… she could have blown that entire Magneto army from up in the air. But instead she flew, well, like she was on a wire. And WHEN THE HELL IS ROGUE GOING TO GET ALL SUPERMAN ON OUR @$$e$ ALREADY?!?!!? GOSH!!!
They should make a movie about Angel. I’m not an X-Men fan, but I really dig Angel. ^_^
Brett Ratner as Brett Ratner in…Brett Ratner.
Um….hello….ROGUE ANYONE?!
She is THE SINGLE MOST neglected character in the franchise, and ironically one of the best and most interesting. Her story/power has the most “human drama” of any of them and her character is the only one that still has a REAL direction left to go….in fact it still has a HUGE one. The fact that 3 films went by without Rogue getting her powers LITERALLY boggles my mind.
L.
All they need for the new sequels are Wolverine and Prof X. I always felt Famke and Halle couldn’t get their parts right, and everyone else can come or go as far as the line up is concerned. Ya’ll already know I won’t miss cyclops even one iota. The idea of doing the gig with the younger X Men and one old man (wolverine) would be a re imagining of the era when the X Men line up changed with pretty much every issue. Also, aren’t Dazzler, Longshot and Psylocke as of yet not in the movies? There are a LOT of X Men…
I don’t care which other X-Men they put in another sequel (though I have my personal favorites like Gambit), but you can’t have a sequel without Wolverine. He is the heart and soul of the X-Men. I liked the actual team thing they had going in X3, as it felt more like what you read in the comics, where they train together and work together to defeat their enemy.
Attention Marvel: cameos are your friend. Your current plan for an Avengers movie, by releasing all of the Avengers’ seperate properties through ONE studio to prevent the licensing headaches, is a bold, Peter Jackson-sized move that I hope will pay off big for you.
1) No one needs Halle Berry to make an X-Men movie. Stop screwing up the franchise to accomodate this overrated model.
2) Whichever vengeful producer was responsible for ending Cyclops to spite James Marsden? YOU’RE AN IDIOT who has harmed the franchise with a stupid personal move. (You also happen to be the same idiot who bucked for ‘Oscar winner Berry’ to get all that screen time.) Remove yourself from the franchise, or let Marvel remove Fox from the franchise. This is Marvel’s most appealing license… you are personally destroying Marvel.
3) You DON’T have to do the same actors. If an actor is too big in price, move on. Patrick Stewart comes from a big, happy ensemble cast family… that has a long and complicated history of screwing each other over for screen time, dialogue, etc., as soon as they transfer from the small screen to the big screen. Start looking for his replacement today and stop wasting time trying to accomodate egos or greed… there are fine actors who will LOVE to inhabit that role for a fair price.
4) Stop thinking so chinsy/small/petty. Invest in the property properly (this goes back to “get this out of it’s current studio”) or move on. You could do “The New Mutants” on television, using the same actors and set that you use for the next two or three X-Men movies, and have massive cross-promotion.
Okay… now that I’m done ranting… number 4 there pretty much is my idea. Do a “New Mutants” for television, concentrating less on special effects and more on drama. Have the actors from the movies do cameos. Then, when it’s time to do the next movie, write the New Mutants into a few scenes, and use the same sets.
And make the new movie Mr. Sinister vs. Apocalypse vs. Magneto with the X-Men siding with Mags.
Wolverine. That’s the only one I’d pay for.
out with the old, in with the new:
emma frost, her massachusetts academy and the hellions!
anyone? anyone?
++++Magneto prequel sounds great — depth and grit, etc. The next generation bit would probably flop — none of the kids can carry (let alone open) a movie yet. Does anyone even know the actors’ names?
rbk | Aug 14, 2006 7:02:51 PM++++
Colossus = Daniel Cudmore
Shadowcat/Kitty Pryde = Ellen Paige
Bobby Drake/Iceman = Shawn Ashmore
Warren Worthington III/Angel: Ben Foster
They’re good characters with a good base. I’d go see them in an X4 as they’re some of my favorite characters from the X-Men comics. I’m not at all disappointed about seeing James Marsen gone (he had all the chops of a wet paper bag), but I’m seriously miffed at Rogue. 3 films, no real depth, and then the ending. Hopefully the “cure” won’t be permanent… but having read interviews with Anna Paquin, I think she’s fed up with the franchise and probably won’t come back. And let’s face it, substitutions mid-franchise always suck.
i think that you should do that ones with the young mutants, also i also want rogue to get her powers, I still have to see iceman, and that a love interest right there. also everyone wants to see gambit, i agree, and from what i read and hear rogue and gambit had a littele love thing going on. there the love triangle you can have in an action movie, where the young mutants are fighting crime on there own and rogue loses it, gambit saves her ass, iceman gets jealous, gambit takes care of rogue, you know the rest.
i think that you should do that ones with the young mutants, also i also want rogue to get her powers, I still have to see iceman, and that a love interest right there. also everyone wants to see gambit, i agree, and from what i read and hear rogue and gambit had a little love thing going on. there the love triangle you can have in an action movie, where the young mutants are fighting crime on there own and rogue loses it, gambit saves her ass, iceman gets jealous, gambit takes care of rogue, you know the rest.
i think that you should do that ones with the young mutants, also i also want rogue to get her powers, I still have to see iceman, and that a love interest right there. also everyone wants to see gambit, i agree, and from what i read and hear rogue and gambit had a little love thing going on. there the love triangle you can have in an action movie, where the young mutants are fighting crime on there own and rogue loses it, gambit saves her ass, iceman gets jealous, gambit takes care of rogue, you know the rest.
i think that you should do that ones with the young mutants, also i also want rogue to get her powers, I still have to see iceman, and that a love interest right there. also everyone wants to see gambit, i agree, and from what i read and hear rogue and gambit had a little love thing going on. there the love triangle you can have in an action movie, where the young mutants are fighting crime on there own and rogue loses it, gambit saves her ass, iceman gets jealous, gambit takes care of rogue, you know the rest.
i think that you should do that ones with the young mutants, also i also want rogue to get her powers, I still have to see iceman, and that a love interest right there. also everyone wants to see gambit, i agree, and from what i read and hear rogue and gambit had a little love thing going on. there the love triangle you can have in an action movie, where the young mutants are fighting crime on there own and rogue loses it, gambit saves her ass, iceman gets jealous, gambit takes care of rogue, you know the rest.
I would love to see a new XMAN MOVIE and have Bryan Singer direct them, not because I love what he did with them, but because it would get him as far away from the Superman franchise as possible. (well, if it can be called a franchise.)
A sequel with the younger mutants, Prof. X and Wolverine would be great. New actresses playing Storm and Jean would also be great. The third movie was awful and dumb. They need to make repairs to the thinking fans. We also demand Mystique returns!
I think you can let the young x-men take over the franchise. If it’s one thing that most X-Men fans seem to agree on about X3, it’s that Ellen Page was good as Kitty Pryde. I think a new franchise could be centered on her and maybe a recast Colossus (with a better actor). If not movies, maybe a tv series – shows like the new Battlestar Galactica and Lost prove that you can have movie-like production values on tv! I’m also interested in seeing a Wolverine movie but they really have to take it to the next level and give us something we haven’t seen before. I’m surprised the young Magneto movie is still being talked about, I don’t know if you can center a whole movie around that character.
I’d pay to see a young Magneto movie or even a Mystique movie, for that matter. Shapeshifters rock — you can’t take your eyes off Rebecca in the third flick (and not just cuz she’s nekkid). I’d also like to see more Pyro. Barring that, the franchise needs some new blood. How bout a fresh new love interest for Wolverine … starring, oh I don’t know, ME?
Forget movies (why spend $10 when TV produces content just as good). I said this after I saw the first “X-Men.” I want my hour-long dramas called X-Men and Mutant High. However, back then I thought they should be on The WB but The CW will do just as well…
if they are truly going to make a new x-men movie, i think that all true fans will agree that rogue MUST get her powers. it’s a shame that anna paquin is fed up (i think i also read that somewhere, but i could just think that because she deserves to be fed up with them) with the franchise because with her acting abilities she could actually do something with this character. they are completely wasting her talents, and i’m sure she realizes that.
aside from that, GAMBIT, baby!! i also agree with roderick about psylocke. psylocke is just freakin’ cool. i mean, all the x-men are, but psylocke…*sigh*
As Brett Ratner proved, anyone but Brian Singer would ruin any X-men or X-men spinoff movie. If Singer is involved I’ll see it, if not, it’d most likely be a huge waste of money.
I can’t believe X3 was allowed to be released with the amount that it sucked. For me it pretty much ruined the franchise.
A movie with all of the younger x-men would be amazing. I went to see the last two movies just to see if Rogue got her powers and was really sad to find out she had such little airtime in the last movie. I think the younger x-men have a story that needs to be told especially since their characters seem to be the ones with all the emotion.