Screw spin-offs. Screw prequels. With Terminator Salvation on the horizon, I was thinking: Since that movie is doing post-apocalyptic and perhaps even "bringing it back", I was thinking of X-Men after re-watching the movie in HD a few hours ago. And the two conjoined...
What if they did an X-Men 4, but loosely adapted the "Days of Future Past" storyline? I know many of you are probably shuddering at the thought, and perhaps adequately so. They screwed up my favorite comic-book storyline of all time in the last movie ("Dark Phoenix Saga"), so who's to say they won't screw up "Days of Future Past", but it is ripe for a big-screen treatment, and especially with Transformers proving you can do big scary giant robots, and not laugh (mostly), I think the time is right for "Days of Future Past" to hit the big screen.
You could even build from the last movie, as difficult as that might sound, and plus, you can do it in an interesting and provocative way that might even "reset" the events of X-Men: The Last Stand without it appearing like a giant-sized "reset button". Hear me out:
In the story, there's a future where all mutants are in concentration camps, after a bill that's signed outlawing mutants (my memory is a bit rusty since it's been a while since I've read the story, so forgive me if my details are shady or incorrect). Sentinels police the United States, and mutants have "tags" on them identifying them much like the Holocaust and the treatment of the Jews. Kitty Pryde is sent back in time to prevent this cataclysmic occurrence in history. She ends up preventing the attempted assassination of Senator Robert Kelly, who used that as a springboard to initiate his "fuck all mutants" act.
Again, my details are dim, but naturally some things would need to be changed. Since Robert Kelly is dead, it makes it difficult to include him, unless he was being impersonated by Mystique, but by going by the events of The Last Stand, she's powerless, so nix that idea. What if...after the Cure, it was revealed that the serum did not work, and began to wore off on some mutants. This caused a stir, and the government initiated "Project Wideawake" as a last resort in containing the mutant problem...Naturally there's going to have to be a bigger impetus than the Cure wearing off, but whatever.
So, flash-forward, and Sentinels run the show, and mutants are imprisoned. Kitty Pryde goes back in time, and get this: She goes back in time before the events of X-Men: The Last Stand, and must stop the creation of the Cure, which leads to Project Wideawake and Sentinels. This way, doing so, allows you to bring back Xavier, Scott, et al, and basically wash away everything that happened in TLS. The ending is ambigious, much like the story, where the X-Men question whether or not they were successful, and if history had been "repaired" or "changed".
This then allows you a clean slate for X-Men 5. It allows us to see one of the best X-Men storylines adapted to film, and furthermore, allows it to actually fix and repair the franchise as it stands now...because let's face it, the way X-Men: The Last Stand ended, the only way to continue the franchise is the way it is currently going: with spin-offs and prequels.
What does everyone think?
What if they did an X-Men 4, but loosely adapted the "Days of Future Past" storyline? I know many of you are probably shuddering at the thought, and perhaps adequately so. They screwed up my favorite comic-book storyline of all time in the last movie ("Dark Phoenix Saga"), so who's to say they won't screw up "Days of Future Past", but it is ripe for a big-screen treatment, and especially with Transformers proving you can do big scary giant robots, and not laugh (mostly), I think the time is right for "Days of Future Past" to hit the big screen.
You could even build from the last movie, as difficult as that might sound, and plus, you can do it in an interesting and provocative way that might even "reset" the events of X-Men: The Last Stand without it appearing like a giant-sized "reset button". Hear me out:
In the story, there's a future where all mutants are in concentration camps, after a bill that's signed outlawing mutants (my memory is a bit rusty since it's been a while since I've read the story, so forgive me if my details are shady or incorrect). Sentinels police the United States, and mutants have "tags" on them identifying them much like the Holocaust and the treatment of the Jews. Kitty Pryde is sent back in time to prevent this cataclysmic occurrence in history. She ends up preventing the attempted assassination of Senator Robert Kelly, who used that as a springboard to initiate his "fuck all mutants" act.
Again, my details are dim, but naturally some things would need to be changed. Since Robert Kelly is dead, it makes it difficult to include him, unless he was being impersonated by Mystique, but by going by the events of The Last Stand, she's powerless, so nix that idea. What if...after the Cure, it was revealed that the serum did not work, and began to wore off on some mutants. This caused a stir, and the government initiated "Project Wideawake" as a last resort in containing the mutant problem...Naturally there's going to have to be a bigger impetus than the Cure wearing off, but whatever.
So, flash-forward, and Sentinels run the show, and mutants are imprisoned. Kitty Pryde goes back in time, and get this: She goes back in time before the events of X-Men: The Last Stand, and must stop the creation of the Cure, which leads to Project Wideawake and Sentinels. This way, doing so, allows you to bring back Xavier, Scott, et al, and basically wash away everything that happened in TLS. The ending is ambigious, much like the story, where the X-Men question whether or not they were successful, and if history had been "repaired" or "changed".
This then allows you a clean slate for X-Men 5. It allows us to see one of the best X-Men storylines adapted to film, and furthermore, allows it to actually fix and repair the franchise as it stands now...because let's face it, the way X-Men: The Last Stand ended, the only way to continue the franchise is the way it is currently going: with spin-offs and prequels.
What does everyone think?
