Matthew Vaughn has stepped away from directing the sequel to ‘X-Men: First Class.’
He still wrote a treatment of the script and will be in a producer role along with Bryan Singer. Singer returing becomes every nerds fantasy. Singer really hit the bullseye with the first 2 X-Men films. They legitimized the comic book film.
Hopefully they find a competent director here and they don’t trust an X-Men film to a horrible director. Fox would NEVER do that right?
RATNER!!!!
So some relatively interesting news came out of 20th Century Fox camp regarding the sequel to Xmen First Class.
Mark Millar (writer of Kick-Ass and Wanted), has come out to say that the sequel to Xmen set in the past, but dealing with the future, will be very Terminator-like in tone, which should only mean that we are finally going to get a story filled with Sentinels. This should come as no surprise to anyone that read the original Days of Future Past story. So this is a good thing. It seems like Fox, now that Tom Rothman has left the studio is really going to try and focus on the Marvel properties they have and try and follow the Avenger blueprint by creating a cohesive world. Millar, who will be working for Fox as the Marvel guru, similar to Whedon’s job with Disney, and he basically said that he wants to try and make it so that when we go and see an Xmen film, we don’t notice that it takes place outside of the Marvel Film Universe. This to me is a step in the right direction, however Fox has a lot of continuity issues to clean up even with the new Xmen franchise as it relates to the former trilogy.
It sounds like Days of Future Past can help with this. First Class, while excellent in my opinion, further made the Xmen universe convoluted especially when you compare it to Xmen Origins, and then to the first Xmen. Famke Janssen has already intimated that she might be reprising the Jean Grey character, in The Wolverine, and Patrick Stewart even hinted he might be playing Xavier again, so maybe Days of Future Past will exist to sort of bridge all of the time/character incongruities, so that going forward we can just have normal stories that don’t make our heads hurt. Maybe this will be like JJ Abrams’ Star Trek. Or maybe it will just suck.
I don’t know either way, but at least they aren’t pretending like these issues aren’t going to just clean themselves up. I hope Millar is the right man for the job, because I want to see awesome X-Men movies continue.
There is a rumor, which I hope is just that, that the latest Xmen film will center heavily around the early 80’s “Days of Future Past” story written by Chris Claremont. The jist of that story was in the future mutants were put into internment camps run by Sentinels (which would be cool to see on film), and Kitty Pryde had to go back in time like John Connor, to stop it all from happening with Wolverine’s help.
Now if this is supposed to be reworked for the First Class movie-verse, I have serious issues with it. First off, despite Havok having nothing to do with Cyclops or even hinting at a relationship and being older than Cyke, which is not true, the film did a good job of stripping away all the other bullshit and telling a story that made sense and kind of rebooted the awful continuity that has plagued the franchise. My fear is that introducing time-travel and alternate timelines will simply be an excuse to add in more useless mutant cameos, instead of really having much to do with the plot. Also neither Kitty Pryde or Wolverine really figure into this current rebooted x-world, so you are either adding them, and rendering all the other characters minus Magneto, Xavier, and Mystique (cause it’s Jennifer Lawrence), useless. Also Kitty Pryde was in Xmen 3, so she couldn’t be in this unless she was a super fetus.
If this is the proposed sequel to the original Xmen franchise, fine, cause I don’t care about those. But Matthew Vaughn did such a good job establishing an A+ world, with B team characters, that I would hate to see his world reduced to a shitty adaptation. But you have to remember Xmen rights are owned by 20th Century Fox and they are notorious for fucking up most genre stuff these days. I blame Tom Rothman.