Some chat from January Jones about the reshoots:
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/19498/january-jones-talks-x-men-rush
http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/19498/january-jones-talks-x-men-rush
X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (Casting, Rumors, Pics till release)
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The trailer was okay, but it wasn't as good as the trailer for X2.
I think they should have done a complete reboot instead of a prequel. That way they wouldn't be restricted with what they could do with the characters. It would have been interesting to see the characters played by new actors every few years like the James Bond movies.
I'm really going to miss Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen though. They were perfect.
I think they should have done a complete reboot instead of a prequel. That way they wouldn't be restricted with what they could do with the characters. It would have been interesting to see the characters played by new actors every few years like the James Bond movies.
I'm really going to miss Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen though. They were perfect.
I think that the First Class franchise will have legs for several years. After that, reboot city!
Coincidence that the noises for both of those were from the same guy....I think not.
In all seriousness though an X4 could go forward in the form of a soft reboot. With that post credit sequence you could recast a new Xavier who is now inhabiting that other body.
Really use this movie to bring Rogue up to her power levels of her comic counterpart. Anna Paquin has even more face recognition(and other parts of her anatomy) due to True Blood. More Collosus, Iceman and Angel(recast there I think).
Beast in a cameo role, Kelsey Grammer's age wouldn't be that noticeable and he's got to be looking for something to do. Halle Berry might be the one hang up. She still looks younger than she is but might want a bigger check.
Introduce one or two new characters of course and the franchise moves on. X-Men were a team even when Scott & Jean had moved on afterall.
Magneto had 3 films, good time to bring in someone else from the Rogues Gallery. I don't want Magneto to become the Lex Luthor of the franchise anyway.
Mr. Sinister leading up to Apocalypse and his Four Horsemen or Bolvar Trask and Project Wide Awake with the rise of the Sentinels are two directions I would go.
Except that Bryan Singer really considers X-Men to be the story of Xavier and Magneto, with everybody else just being Woverine or a special effect.
And that's the story him and Vaughn are already going to tell. Personally if First Class garners success and are allowed to make sequels, anything after that Fox should hand over to Marvel and reboot, but that would probably not happen.
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It looks alright. I would have rather seen this as a full fledged reboot (which could tell roughly the same story as far as Charles/Magneto goes), with the original 5 X-Men.
^ That is what I was anticipating.
I found the X-movies to be extremely underwhelming considering the potential of the source material. This looks like it could be good, though. I hope it is.
That said, I do find the decision to do a prequel to a pretty mediocre set of films that ended on a down note, rather than some form of reboot, to be a tad surprising and perhaps a bit dubious as a creative choice. Granted, in the golden age of reboots, maybe doing something a bit different can set your film apart, but I don't know... the original X-movies are hardly in the forefront of anyone's mind at this point. Spiderman is getting rebooted, and the last one of those was more recent than X3 and made like $400 million at the box office, didn't it?
Anyway, let's hope for the best.
That said, I do find the decision to do a prequel to a pretty mediocre set of films that ended on a down note, rather than some form of reboot, to be a tad surprising and perhaps a bit dubious as a creative choice. Granted, in the golden age of reboots, maybe doing something a bit different can set your film apart, but I don't know... the original X-movies are hardly in the forefront of anyone's mind at this point. Spiderman is getting rebooted, and the last one of those was more recent than X3 and made like $400 million at the box office, didn't it?
Anyway, let's hope for the best.
^"A pretty mediocre set of films?" I thought the first two X-Men films were generally regarded as two of the best modern superhero films, even the ones that started the modern trend of high-quality superhero films from high-class directors. X-Men: The Last Stand and Wolverine are the only ones that have been poorly received.
^ This is generally the majority opinion of the franchise yes. There are still people who disliked all of them though.
As action/comic-book movies they were quite good. But as "X-Men" movies they were...decent...at best. Cyclops is my favorite character and the guy got hosed in the movies.
Yep the treatment of Scott in the films has been one of my beefs with them. The thing is that they decided to focus the movies on arguably one of Marvel's most popular characters, Wolverine, because of that decision everyone else pretty much suffered or was relegated to secondary status.
^ Honestly, who can blame them? Wolverine is popular. I would argue that when people/comic fans think of the X-Men (pre-movies), they would automatically think of Wolverine as well. He is a very affable character. It would have been stupid of them to not put him in.
But it's fair to argue they went too far to make him the centerpiece. After the first movie, an approach more like the 90s cartoon or X-Men: Evolution could've worked just as well or better - significant player but not the central focus, allowing the ensemble more emphasis.
I agree. Wolverine is a very important part of the X-Men story, and he should be treated as such, but there are also other characters that deserve just as much attention. X2 was Wolverine's big movie. The next one should have been Jean and Scott's.