There's all sorts of title confusion out there anyway. Nicolas Cage & Ron Perlman are currently in a movie called
Season of the Witch. Until today, I was under the mistaken impression that it was going to be a remake of
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (but avoiding the mistake of its predecessor and not including "Halloween" in the title).
Then you've got James Cameron suing
Avatar: The Last Airbender to remove the word "Avatar" from their title even though the original anime series came out long before James Cameron's
Avatar movie.
Last year provided no end of confusion thanks to the releases of
9, Nine, &
District 9. (
District 9 was the space-aliens-as-South-African-apartheid-metaphor movie.
9 was the funky CG animated movie produced by Tim Burton & Timur Bekmambetov about a bunch of
Nightmare Before Christmas rejects running around a post-apocalyptic landscape fighting giant robots.
Nine was Rob Marshall's musical remake of Fellini's
8 1/2; starring Daniel Day-Lewis as an Italian movie director with writer's block surrounded by sexy women who sing a lot.)
The Steve Martin/Queen Latifah comedy
Bringing Down the House had absolutely nothing to do with the Ben Mezrich non-fiction book of the same name. As a result, when Mezrich's story of card counting MIT students was finally adapted for the screen, the title was changed to
21.
Still, let's hope that even 20th Century Fox isn't dumb enough to use a sequel title like
Second Class. The savage critical headlines would write themselves!
would xavier still be in another man's body?
Eww.
Ian McKellen could probably give Patrick Stewart some advice on how to play that scene.
Eeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!
Well, since FC is to be set in the sixties, they've got a good thirty years or so to start with... but it's not the years so much as the continuity restraints. Mutants were being treated as a relatively new discovery in X1, iirc, which severely hampers possible storylines if they do decide to observe continuity.
I didn't take the Mutant Registration Act in X:1 as a sign that mutants were a relative new discovery. I took it as the government was finally getting a voice in on the phenomenon, one that had been going on for awhile. It's not odd at all for the government to be the last one to chime in on something.
Absolutely. Take illegal immigration as a real world example. It's been an issue for decades. Arizona's SB1070 is merely the most recent, most controversial measure to address it.
