The X-Men Cinematic Universe (General Discussion)

[The Nth Doctor]

That would be awesome. Stewart seems open to the idea (based on what's being said online). He has a good sense of humor and done some pretty ridiculous comedy roles before, so I think that's probably what would get him to come back for deadpool, getting to do an appearance in something that's different then the standard X-Men movie. I really hope it happens.

Indeed. Going by Blunt Talk alone, I think Patrick Stewart would fit in just fine with Deadpool.

He was on James Corden's show and he open to appearing in Deadpool and on Legion.

Oh, this is the first time I've heard he's open to appearing on Legion as well. I hope that happens assuming the show gets renewed.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Indeed. Going by Blunt Talk alone, I think Patrick Stewart would fit in just fine with Deadpool.


Oh, this is the first time I've heard he's open to appearing on Legion as well. I hope that happens assuming the show gets renewed.

Dan Stevens was on too and suggested it. Maybe he was being polite.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

I just watched the clip and Patrick Stewart sounded pretty genuine about the idea, so we shall see.

 

[JD]

Coby Bell cast in Fox's untitled X-Men pilot

Cool, I liked Bell on Burn Notice. I wonder if we'll see any other Burn Notice cast members pop up?

 

[Set Harth]

I just watched the clip and Patrick Stewart sounded pretty genuine about the idea, so we shall see.

The show has now officially revealed that

Spoiler

David was adopted

, so I guess that opens the door for Stewart...

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Works for me.

 

[Turtletrekker]

The new TV show will (apparently?) be entitled "Gifted".

 

[Pauln6]

Polaris being Magneto's daughter hasn't been retconed away in the comics. As for whether the show will use that connection or not, the franchise has such a mixed track record with how it treats X-Men characters that Polaris on the show could end up being Nightcrawler's daughter and I wouldn't be surprised at this point In the comics, Polaris was raised by her mother and (I think) a step/adopteddad who she didn't know wasn't her real Dad, so they could start her out with normal parents but have Magneto being her dad be a surprise reveal if they wanted.

If memory serves, Quicksilver's mum mentions his 'sister's' or possibly 'sisters''' in DoFP so it is possible for both Scarlet Witch and Polaris to be part of the same family if they decide to go that way.

 

[Tosk]

^Correct, in the Rogue Cut at least. Peter has one sister that we see, and another unseen upstairs.

 

[DigificWriter]

Update on the Matt Nix series:
http://ew.com/tv/2017/03/11/gifted-fox-x-men-series-photo/

"Gifted" is merely the series' working title, and, despite appearing in a cast read-through photo, The Originals' Joseph Morgan isn't actually part of the series' cast, but was simply "filling in" for one of the roles.

 

[Ethros]

Why Caliban was different in Apocalypse and Logan

Quick answer- because there's zero connection between any of these movies and no one pays attention or keeps track.

 

[Tosk]

Meh. There's 40+ years between the two movies, and still less drift between the Calibans than there is in the Frosts, Psylockes, Or Colossi. I don't see the big deal. Let's talk about how Jubilee managed to remain a teenager for over twenty years instead.

 

[Beagleman]

Eh, time travel... and of course we don't talk about it.

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

Eternal 80s teenagerness is her mutant superpower I thought.

 

[kirk55555]

Why Caliban was different in Apocalypse and Logan

Quick answer- because there's zero connection between any of these movies and no one pays attention or keeps track.

That definitely makes me want to see Logan less. i'm sick and tired of the X-Men franchise doing this. I'll give them Psylocke because I don't think the first one ever had her name said on screen, it was just a credits thing I think. Same with Frost. Colossus got one line in X-Men three, so I'd say him being Russian is supported by Deadpool being his primary appearance in the franchise, not X3. But Angel was BS, they obviously just wanted to use the character but pretend he's not Warren because they had to have a half assed Archangel in Apocalypse. Logan using Caliban, which I didn't know about until right now, is just them giving the middle finger to the fractured, barely coherent continuity of the franchise.

I mean, even for the X-Men franchise's bare grasp on continuity Logan is obviously completely non-Canon (there is no way the majority of X-Men or mutants will ever be killed in the main continuity, much less off screen in a spin off movie, I don't care how far in the future its supposed to be). With so many mutants they could use, reusing the same ones for absolutely no reason presumably because they were too lazy to check if they had been used before and barely connected to the comic versions is just a "screw you" to pretty much everyone at this point. If I wasn't a nutty superhero fan I'd probably skip Logan for being a non Canon and seemingly junk X-Men spinoff. But, I watched (and own) Fant4stic, so I'm obviously going to watch Logan eventually. I'm definitely not looking forward to it, though.

 

[M'rk son of Mogh]

^^ Logan takes place how many decades after Apocalypse? To say people don't change in, what, 40 years, is ludicrous on its on, let alone to boycott a movie that can allow for literally thousands of stories that took place between the movies where anything could have happened. And he lines up well enough with his character in the comics, (only he finally learned to speak in first person)

There are many other reasons to potentially not see the movie, this one shouldn't even be near that list.

 

[DigificWriter]

I believe I've said this before, but I'm saying it again: regardless of how one might personally feel about the quality of any individual film, the fact that the X-Men franchise is and remains the longest-running continuous franchise in the Superhero/Comic Book Movie genre says something about what FOX has been able to do, as a studio, in adapting this particular corner of the Marvel Universe, and ought to be given more positive emphasis than it tends to get.

 

[Kor]

I find it refreshing that the whole X-Men cinematic franchise has been so fast and loose with continuity, in an age when fans get so angst-y about any little inconsistency.

Each X-Men movie could be considered a standalone vignette that just happens to have some of the same characters as the other standalone vignettes which are loosely connected in "broad strokes" fashion. This is a throw-back to the old days of genre fiction, when it was more important to actually tell a good story that stood on its own merits than to get hung up on every little detail from a bunch of previous stories.

Kor

 

[Anwar]

I believe I've said this before, but I'm saying it again: regardless of how one might personally feel about the quality of any individual film, the fact that the X-Men franchise is and remains the longest-running continuous franchise in the Superhero/Comic Book Movie genre says something about what FOX has been able to do, as a studio, in adapting this particular corner of the Marvel Universe, and ought to be given more positive emphasis than it tends to get.

Well, if they hadn't been inspired to do more after the MCU took off odds are the X-Movies would've ended with Wolverine Origins.

 

[DigificWriter]

^ I'm not sure where you got the idea that the decision to do First Class was 'motivated' only by the success of the MCU, because the concept of doing that movie was first broached by Lauren Shuler Donner during production of X2 and revisited during production of The Last Stand, although it took a few more years to actually get it off the ground.