It looks like 20th Century Fox will be continuing the X-Men franchise not just with solo spin-offs. The studio signed Josh Schwartz this week to write X-Men: First Class to bring the franchise to a younger generation.
Josh Schwartz is the creator, writer and producer of the television shows The OC, Gossip Girl and Chuck and this will be his first shot at developing a project for the big screen. You can probably guess who the target audience will be.
The film will undoubtedly follow (at least in some way, shape or form) the general idea and story from the X-Men: First Class comic book which Marvel debuted in 2006 as a mini-series, later continued as an ongoing series. The book follows the original five X-Men (for the most part) in their teens working for Professor X as it was when the X-Men comic began back in the 60’s.
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That being said, the comic may have no bearing at all on the film… in fact it probably won’t – we all saw what Fox did with X-Men 3 and pretty much all the other Marvel properties they own rights to. They don’t seem to pay homage to the continuity of the source material at all -so I would not be surprised to see the First Class team feature characters that definitely do not belong. Just look at X-Men Origins: Wolverine; it has Gambit as part of Weapon X, which makes no sense at all to anyone familiar with the comics.
My fear is that Fox will just randomly pluck any X-characters who they think are popular and throw them on the same team without regard to who they are and where or when they are from. And it’ll be a shame if they do that since the X-Men are badass in their own right and they don’t need to be screwed with to sell.
I’m a big X-Men fan myself and I’m always up for seeing more feature films about them. However I wish they could just turn some of the millions of stories already written (and illustrated) for them and adapt them for film, rather than just using the brand and character names for whatever they want. There’s a reason the X-Men comic has been around so long and has spawned so many books, games, merchandise and television programming – you don’t need to make up stuff to substitute for that.
I have no idea what to expect from Schwartz, other than the project obviously being targeted as a teen drama for teens. Apparently there’s also a possibility of him directing which makes it even more unpredictable.
You know my thoughts. What are yours?
Source: Variety
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I agree with you Alejandro. Marvel should buy back the rights. Not just for X-men, but hopefully down the road, Fantastic Four, Spider-man etc. Though its a long shot at a heavy price. Id like to see a X-men 4 etc. instead of rebooting the franchise and replacing Hugh Jackman as Wolverine unless true fans like me wouldnt care. Id like to see hardcore villains like Mr. Sinister etc. Especially the Sentinels.
This should be the story line for X-MEN 4. SCENE 1. EMMA FROST DISCOVERS SCOTT FROM WHERE JEAN GREY LEFT HIM. THE X-MEN THOUGHT SCOTT WAS KILLED BY JEAN BUT HE WASNT. EMMA FROST FINDS SCOTT THROUGH A PYSIC LINK AND TAKES SCOTT BACK TO HER HOUSE AND NURSE HIM BACK TO HEALTH. BUT SCOTT STAYS UNKNOWN TO THE AUDIENCE.
SCENE 2. MR. SINISTER AND THE MARUADER (VERTIGO,ARCLIGHT,SUN FIRE) SHOWS UP AT ROGUE’S HOUSE TRYING TO KID NAP HER FOR HIS MUTANT EXPERIMENTS. ROGUE MANAGED TO CALL THE X-MEN (ICE MAN) WHILE MR.SINISTER WAS ATTACKING HER FAMILY. SO STORM SENDS ICE MAN AND ANGEL TO GO SPOIL MR.SINISTER PLANS. ICE MAN AND ANGEL ARRIVES AND A INTENSE BATTLE IGNITES. BUT THE TURN OUT EVENT OF THAT BATTLE WOULD BE ICE MAN BEING KNOCKED OUT AND ROUGE AND ANGEL BEING CAPTURED.
SCENE 3. THE OTHER X-MEN GOES TO RESCUE THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WHILE HE WAS GIVEING A SPEECH ABOUT HUMAN AND MUTANTS CO-EXISTING. SENTINELS WERE SENT TO KID NAPP THE PRESIDENT SO THE X-MEN (STORM, WOLVERINE, COLOSIS,JUBILEE, NIGHT CRAWLER) ARRIVES AND BATTLES THE SENTINELS. NIGHT CRAWLER TAKES THE PRESIDENT AND TELEPORT HIM OUT OF HARMS WAY. WHILE THE OTHER X-MEN CONTINUE THE BATTLE WITH THE SENTINELS. WHILE BATTLEING STORM,COLOSIS AND JUBLIEE ARE KNOCKED OUT AND LOGAN IS LEFTED FACED AGAINST TWO SENTINELS. AT THAT TIME A LARGE ENERGY BEAM SHOOT ONE SENTINEL HEAD OFF THEN EMMA FROST AND SCOTT IS SHOWN AS HE FINISHES OFF THE LAST SENTINEL.
SCENE 4. X-MEN REGROUP AND LOAD BACK ON THE BLACK BIRD WITH THE PRESIDENT. EMMA FROST AND SCOTT HAS A DIALOUG ABOUT HIM BEING ALIVE. THE CONVERSTATION WOULD BE INTERUPTED FROM ICE MAN INFORMING THEM ABOUT THE CAPTURE OF ROUGE AND ANGEL. THE X-MEN TAKES THE PRESIDENT TO A HIDE OUT WHILE HIS PEOPLE CAN FIND OUT WHO SENT THE SENTINELS. THE X-MEN THEN ARRIVES AT THE MANSION WHERE THEY MEET ICE MAN AND THEY HAVE A DIALOUG.
SCENE 5. MR. SINISTER IS BACK AT HIS LAYER WHERE ROUGE AND ANGEL IS SHOWN LOCKED DOWN ON THESE METAL TABLES. THEY ARE ALSO HOOKED UP TO THESE TUBES WITH THIS BLUE SUBSTANCE IN THEM. MR. SINISTER THEN TELLS THEM THEY SHOULD BE EXCITED BECAUSE THEY WILL BE THE FIRST OF MUTANT EVOLUTION. HE THEN STARTS THE ADVANCE MUTATION PROCEDURES ON THEM. ROUGE AND ANGEL SCREAMS IN PAIN. MR. SINISTER ALSO BRAIN WASHES THEM TO THINKING THEY ARE PART OF HIS MARUADERS. ANGEL IS TURNED INTO ARCANGLE AND ROUGE NOW HAS SUPER STRENGTH AND THE ABILITY TO FLY.
SCENE 6. MR. SINISTER MASTER PLAN IS TO CAPTURE SCOTT SO HE CAN ADVANCE MUTATE HIM ASWELL AS OBTAINING HIS DNA. MR. SINISTER ATTACKS A MALL TO BRING OUT THE X-MEN. MR SINSTER AND HIS MARUADERS(VERTIGO,ARCLIGHT,SUN FIRE) ARE BEING SHOWN ON NEW ATTACKIN A MALL IN NY. THE X-MEN SEES THE NEWS AND LOAD UP ON THE BLACK BIRD TO STOP MR. SINISTER AND TO ALSO TRY TO FIND OUT WHERE ROUGE AND ANGEL ARE. THE X-MEN ARRIVE AND DOES BATTLE WIT SINISTER AND HIS TWO MARUADERS IN MID BATTLE ROUGE AND ARCANGLE SHOWS UP AND DEFEAT THE X-MEN. MR. SINSTER ATTEMPTS TO TAKE SCOTT UNTIL NIGHT CRAWLER FOILS HIS PLANS AND RESCUE SCOTT WHILE THE OTHER X-MEN REVIVE TO RUN MR. SINISTER AND THE MARUADERS AWAY.
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