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Post by BackinBlack on Feb 13, 2017 18:21:28 GMT -5
You guys have probably been hearing about this lately, with the main rumor that it'll adapt the Dark Phoenix Saga. Well today we got confirmation from Sophie Turner that she'll be back as Jean Grey and it will shoot this year. www.superherohype.com/news/390661-sophie-turner-confirms-new-x-men-movie-begins-shooting-this-year#/slide/1As much as I would have liked for Marvel and Fox to make a deal, I'm happy that they're continuing on. While DOFP is still the best X-Men movie IMO, I feel Apocalypse set the stage for a more comic accurate X-Men, especially with the individual suits at the end. A true depiction of the Phoenix will be nice too. I'm not crazy about "Supernova" though, but I've heard it's just a working title so they probably just don't want to outright announce it.
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Post by BackinBlack on Apr 22, 2017 20:38:24 GMT -5
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Post by mr. excellent on Apr 23, 2017 12:44:33 GMT -5
Neat, that's 1 day before my birthday! I'm getting spoiled these next few years. I don't know how excited I am for it yet. Do we know who's directing this again? Who's writing it?
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Post by BackinBlack on Apr 23, 2017 18:10:34 GMT -5
I believe it's Simon Kinberg on both.
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Post by mr. excellent on Apr 23, 2017 21:23:59 GMT -5
That sounds risky... I know I've been putting a lot of plugs for Drew Goddard lately, but he and Joss Whedon would be a great team up. Whedon's direction and writing support, along with Goddard at the helm would make for an awesome X-Men film. Hell, maybe even a Simon Kinberg Joss Whedon collaboration would work. I know Joss is doing Batgirl, and I get that he's the go to guy for feminism in big blockbusters in Hollywood, but his X-Men comics are so good! Also, I feel that X-Men is more his wheelhouse than the Bat family stuff. Just sayin'. This is off topic I guess. As for the on topic stuff, I'm excited to see the entire core roster of X-Men characters on screen again. The actors I'm most excited to see reprise their roles are Tye Sheridan and Kodi-Smit McPhee (it's a tie between them), while Alexandra Shipp is a close second. I wasn't super impressed with Sophie Turner, but I don't think she brought the movie down either, so there's nothing discouraging about seeing her return in my book.
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Post by brotherandbassist on Apr 30, 2017 16:25:23 GMT -5
I'm not feelin it. The timeline to me is still confusing (Angel randomly appearing in a different decade, two Calibans, Wolverine's origin being bumped up from the 70s to the 80s, vague references to both timelines in Logan, etc) and I don't think the cast of Apocalypse was promising enough for me to be too enthusiastic about seeing them in another film. I may honestly skip this one until it hits Red Box. I'm hoping I'm wrong, but to me, retrying the Dark Phoenix storyline is a bad idea, especially considering this is a Jean Grey we barely know or have any real connection with outside of Apocalypse. It just seems gimmicky and I don't feel like enough chemistry has been developed between her and the other characters for us to really give a shit (excuse my language) about what happens to her. I just hope they don't try to throw Mystique in there again somehow. I never understood why they tried to make her so important in the other movies set in this timeline. She's okay as a supporting character, but trying to make her this on again, off again hero just doesn't work for me. I'll probably just stick to watching the Deadpool and X-Force movies at this point
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Post by mr. excellent on Apr 30, 2017 23:05:17 GMT -5
Yeah, I hear what you're saying. X-Men as a film franchise is kind of weird. They can make a subpar film and then come back with the next one and blow you away. We'll see how it goes.
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Post by brotherandbassist on May 1, 2017 16:40:40 GMT -5
I want to see a movie about Daken. I'd like to see him take Wolverine's place in the X-Men. A lot of people want Laura to do that, but I kind of have an idea that works out where Daken was born first and is older. Maybe Wolverine slept around with someone and forgot about it in this huge gap of time we have because of the new timeline and he just forgotten about it. Maybe even when he went to Japan the first time and saved the guy from the nuke blast (if that is still canon)
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Post by BackinBlack on Jun 14, 2017 15:37:24 GMT -5
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Post by mr. excellent on Jun 14, 2017 15:55:15 GMT -5
I really wish they'd stop focusing on Mystique so much, or recast the part. Not happy to hear about Lawrence returning. She's amazing in practically everything but the X-Men movies, but because she's Jennifer Lawrence they beef up her role. Why? Why give her more to do when her lack of enthusiasm is so clearly on display. I'm just tired of giving her the benefit of the doubt. What's even more frustrating is that she was done, she didn't have to re-up on her contract. I do remember reading articles around the time Apocalypse was in theaters where she was quoted as saying she'd consider returning if Fassbender and McAvoy did, so maybe the enthusiasm is there. I don't know. Sometimes actors are facetious, which can be a breath of fresh air. Getting actual honesty through sarcasm or irony or wit or whatever, but still. Beyond Lawrence's Mystique, I think that it'd be nice to see the X-Men movies move past Magneto. Charles should be there, it's his school, but the level to which they rely on Magneto is second to only Wolverine.
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Post by brotherandbassist on Jun 19, 2017 23:02:12 GMT -5
I don't get the whole Mystique obsession either. Her role makes no sense. Her as a good guy is insanely corny to me. I liked her in First Class, but after that, her role was pretty meh to me. So unneeded and seems forced
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Post by BackinBlack on Jun 29, 2017 23:16:05 GMT -5
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Post by mr. excellent on Jun 30, 2017 21:45:59 GMT -5
It's so hard to get pumped up for X-Men movies. When the trailers are good it goes a long way, but they're so hit and miss, or in the case of Apocalypse, middle of the road. I know I harped on it earlier, but I really wish they hadn't resigned Jennifer Lawrence and to a lesser extent Michael Fassbender. It's not that I don't want to see him in future X-Men films, I do, but I think a break from the character would do them well, similar to how the MCU gave Tom Hiddleston some time to breathe. What I'd like to see, is an Ender's Gamesque storyline where we're laughably outgunned and unprepared to deal with an oncoming invasion from the Shiar. Because this is X-Men, the world doesn't turn to mutants to solve the problem, but Xavier believes he can assemble a team capable of overcoming the odds. We have the Danger Room, which is essentially a better version of the battle rooms in Ender's Game, the best teacher/principal on the planet (Charles), one of the most brilliant minds in Marvel comics (Hank McCoy), and one of the best strategists in the comics (Scott Summers), and an entire school filled with powerful individuals. Like Ender's Game, I think the primary focus should be on the relationships the kids have with each other, and the adults in the movie should be viewed through the perspective of the kids. Like, the core roster (all still kids or very young adults) is the audience's way into the story.
I dunno, I just think something like this would be really fun and a much different approach than what we've been getting. I think the young actors and the core roster were the best part of Apocalypse, aside from Quicksilver and that one awesome monologue from Apocalypse where he makes every country launch their nuclear weapons so that they don't have anything to challenge him.
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Post by BackinBlack on Sept 27, 2018 6:13:17 GMT -5
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Post by Webber3000 on Sept 28, 2018 12:42:16 GMT -5
Feels familiar, but eh, who knows.
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