Okay, X-Men: The Last Stand wasn’t good. Considering how great the first two films were, the third was woeful in comparison. While most people tend to blame Brett Ratner, I blame the suits at Fox.
Ratner isn’t a bad director, in fact I quite like him, he knows how to make a good popcorn flick, and his stab at a Hannibal Lecter film was much better than Ridley Scott’s. Yes, you did read that correctly.
The Last Stand was ruined by a release date and Fox’s wish stick a finger up at Bryan Singer, who bailed from the franchise to direct Superman Returns (a film that I really like).
Now that the money grabbers at Fox have realized that it’s just too expensive to continue with the X-Men franchise in its original incarnation, they’ve apparently decided to milk the cash cow my going straight to DVD with a series of origin films.
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Cool it Hugh Jackman fans, this doesn’t mean the Wolverine film is going straight to Blockbuster. Jackman’s too big a star for that and I reckon that his salary is going to be more than the combined budgets for these new “Origins” flicks.
Word on the street is that minor X-Men characters are going to get their chance to shine. It’s not a bad idea, and considering that Hollywood is going straight to DVD crazy it makes a lot of financial sense.
It’s an interesting idea and it could work, but let’s just hope they stay away from Halle Berry!
Source: Joblo
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As an update to this, it seems that Joe Carnahan is making noises regarding a Juggernaut movie which may tie into this story.
http://smokinjoecarnahan.com/2007/11/juggernaut.php
Vic
This sounds good to me as long as these X-men stories don’t suck.
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The 3rd X-men film had one of the biggest mistakes in it that I’ve ever seen in a sci-fi film.
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You know when,,
Right before the last battle with Magneto on the GG bridge its a sunny day and then next scene its nightime???
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Like I didn’t notice…..
Sure the Pryo-technics look better at night but try to work the physics into a more realtime enviromental setting…..or start the battle at night…wtf? Gheeeesh.
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I have to disagree with you on whose fault X3 was. Listening to the commentaries (especially the producer one) i get the impression that Fox let Brett Ratner have a lot of freedom in making this film. That freedom includes the truly disgusting decision to have Rogue take the Cure.
I won’t claim to know the whole story and it is likely you know more of the behind the scenes stuff than i do but i’m laying the blame squarely with Mr Ratner. I’m not saying that he’s a bad director, but X3 was a bad movie and it was his fault.
Oh, forgot to mention that the “Direct to DVD” could be awesome. Hopefully the films still get a reasonable budget so that they aren’t totally b grade.
I am so very angry that Xmen is going straight to dvd. While I admit the 3rd movie was a downer (thanks to fox… i say spend MORE time and MONEY on a movie and get your moneys worth in the end)
the thing i wish for them to do is atleast try to make up for it in a 4th. Straight to DVD?? Most of my time is not spent watching straight to DVD movies. AKA B-movies. Speaking of downers… Spiderman 3 killed me as well. Its a horrible curse that the terrible 3s’ have. Lets hope transformers make a stand. And not their last.
(terrible cliche?)
But where do they take the story? “Secret wars”? It would be a little different, if you could get the studios to cooperate. A “Secret Wars” story could bring back the dead from “X-3″.
What a whopper? To finally see the awaited sequel of the X-men:the Last Stand was a devastation to watch.I waited for the upcoming movie so long just to watch in horror that Scott a.k.a. Cyclop dies in the movie.Frankly I couldn’t finish the movie because something was missing from the movie.It felt like being given a candy and only to watch being stolen by someone else.
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