WARNING: This post, and consequently this thread, might contain major spoilers for this summer's X-Men: First Class. Please continue at your own discretion.
I've been hearing rumors, especially based on comments from both X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn (source) and producer Bryan Singer (source), that the filmmakers intend to retcon or ignore certain plot elements from both X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
Based on the story rumors that I've heard, Xavier gets crippled at the end of First Class. Now, as we all know, Xavier is shown walking in both the prologue to X-Men: The Last Stand and at the tail end of X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Since the story of First Class takes place in the 60's, it would definitively suggest that The Last Stand and Wolverine do not fit within continuity, since those films take place far later in history, probably around the 70's or 80's (at least during the prologue for The Last Stand) when Xavier is shown to be walking.
Also, another story rumor I've heard is that Xavier and Magneto have their falling out at the end of First Class, when at the beginning of The Last Stand it is revealed that Xavier and Magneto are still buddies. Also, Moira MacTaggert is a part of the film, and she's in her early 20's, and yet in The Last Stand she looks to be in her 30's or 40's. Going by the continuity of First Class, she should be in her 70's in The Last Stand. Similarly, when Mystique is cured in The Last Stand, she assumes the human form of someone in her 30's, but she's in her early 20's in First Class, meaning she would have to be in her 70's as well if we followed the continuity of First Class. Her mutant ability allows her to suppress her aging, but some argue that if continuity is meant to be kept, she should have become an old woman when she was cured. The reason this can be argued is because one could assume that the youth she sustains would remain even after being cured.
However, there has been discussion that producer Lauren Shuler-Donner (who has produced all of the X-Men movies) has an idea for a potential X-Men 4 that she's discussed with Bryan Singer, who seems interested (source). Further rumors seem to suggest that such an idea would retcon The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Also, Darren Aronosfky is simply "ignoring" the events of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and has stated that his film, The Wolverine, will be a standalone film and not directly reference the events of the last film.
So, do you think there seems to be a conscious effort to dismiss or partly ignore the continuity established by X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and would you mind if filmmakers Matthew Vaughn, Bryan Singer and Darren Aronosfky ignored or retconned the events in those movies for their films?
I've been hearing rumors, especially based on comments from both X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn (source) and producer Bryan Singer (source), that the filmmakers intend to retcon or ignore certain plot elements from both X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
Based on the story rumors that I've heard, Xavier gets crippled at the end of First Class. Now, as we all know, Xavier is shown walking in both the prologue to X-Men: The Last Stand and at the tail end of X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Since the story of First Class takes place in the 60's, it would definitively suggest that The Last Stand and Wolverine do not fit within continuity, since those films take place far later in history, probably around the 70's or 80's (at least during the prologue for The Last Stand) when Xavier is shown to be walking.
Also, another story rumor I've heard is that Xavier and Magneto have their falling out at the end of First Class, when at the beginning of The Last Stand it is revealed that Xavier and Magneto are still buddies. Also, Moira MacTaggert is a part of the film, and she's in her early 20's, and yet in The Last Stand she looks to be in her 30's or 40's. Going by the continuity of First Class, she should be in her 70's in The Last Stand. Similarly, when Mystique is cured in The Last Stand, she assumes the human form of someone in her 30's, but she's in her early 20's in First Class, meaning she would have to be in her 70's as well if we followed the continuity of First Class. Her mutant ability allows her to suppress her aging, but some argue that if continuity is meant to be kept, she should have become an old woman when she was cured. The reason this can be argued is because one could assume that the youth she sustains would remain even after being cured.
However, there has been discussion that producer Lauren Shuler-Donner (who has produced all of the X-Men movies) has an idea for a potential X-Men 4 that she's discussed with Bryan Singer, who seems interested (source). Further rumors seem to suggest that such an idea would retcon The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Also, Darren Aronosfky is simply "ignoring" the events of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and has stated that his film, The Wolverine, will be a standalone film and not directly reference the events of the last film.
So, do you think there seems to be a conscious effort to dismiss or partly ignore the continuity established by X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and would you mind if filmmakers Matthew Vaughn, Bryan Singer and Darren Aronosfky ignored or retconned the events in those movies for their films?
