The news the other day about producer Lauren Schuler Donner hinting at the beginnings of plans for an X-Men 4 movie (and a movie based on The New Mutants) got me thinking of some of the infinite possibilities for the next X-Men installment.
I could go on and on about stories and characters I’d like to see, but keeping to the basics, I’ll discuss some of the issues from the existing X-trilogy that need to be rectified going forward with the next movie, should it come to fruition.
Join us as we discuss what we’d like to see from X-Men 4 and open the floor for your ideas!
We’ll go through some topics that need to be addressed, many of which stem from issues we were left with from X-Men 3: The Last Stand, starting with who the villain(s) should be.
A New Villain
Magneto’s reign is over, have him as a guest role to touch on his relationship with Xavier and perhaps have him redeem himself in some way, becoming the friend he used to be when he was the X-Men’s co-founder prior to the events of the X-trilogy.
This would be a nice concluding touch to the story of X-Men: First Class, which I think may feature Magneto working alongside Xavier to build the institute and the Cerebro device. With a possible role in that film and his own origins solo movie, Magneto’s story will be continued in the past, not the future: leave him out of X4.
So who must the X-Men dance with? Mr. Sinister and the Marauders? Apocalypse? Sentinels?! You could make multiple movies using any of these villains, let alone the time-traveling storylines featuring Bishop and Cable, which would allow for some very cool tie-ins to other X-films in development.
The Marauders would offer a good way to showcase a team of enemies and would tie Gambit into X-Men 4, while bringing Mr. Sinister into the mix. His interest in Jean Grey/Cyclops could be a key storyline and his involvement could help branch into existing or new spinoffs in development. Going that direction could also allow for the storyline of Cyclops fathering Cable as a result of Mr. Sinister’s experiments (I doubt it would follow the comics though) .
Give Rogue some Power!
Rogue was the leading lady of the first X-Men movie and then became a completely unused and wasted character in its sequels. Her power is to acquire other powers and she didn’t do that once over the span of three superhero movies. I don’t get it and judging by the interviews I saw for the movie, neither does Anna Paquin, the actress who played Rogue.
Paquin has matured as an actress and she has a strong following with her hit show, True Blood. Bring her back and bring her into the action. Let her fly and smash things.
A more significant (and useful) role for Rogue could also include or setup a possible storyline with her and Gambit; Wolverine star Taylor Kitsch is very interested in doing just that, and many fans would like to see it happen.
Speaking of powers, Iceman finally iced up in the final action sequence of X3: The Last Stand so now he should be a full-fledged mutant combatant and X-Men member. Let him and Rogue dominate in the large-scale action sequences. Ice slides, anyone?
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Onslaught in X5
I think I just puked a little.
I would like to see Wolverine gain all of his memories back from Wolverine: Origins, then we would be able to see him leave to find Gambit and Jubilee(the chick with the sunglasses and fireworks). I’d also like to see Cyclops come back, so much could be done cuz it never really showed him being killed by the pheonix or his body after what happened, just his special sunglasses. Professor Xavier is gone though, I’d like to see Storm or Cyclops take over the school. Also I would like to see Wolverine take over Cyclops previous teaching position.
The next X-Men movies should be,X-Men:Age Of The Apocalypse.The next movies should have a full star mutant cast list,good and bad mutants.All the mutants from the X-men universe.
The next X-men movies should be based on the X-men:Age Of The Apocalypse commic.Good story telling, and plenty of action.
You just said EVERYTHING I’ve ever thought was wrong and should be about this franchise. Enough with Wolverine, bring down Halle Berry’s ego and, mainly, give Cyclops the role he deserves!!!
I think they should base the plot off of the xmen legends 2. Cause I want to see Apocalypse and Mr. Sinister xmen 4 and 5 that’s a good two part. At the end of x5 end off where Xavier turns into Onslaught… so some body needs to do a fantastic 4 reboot right now… just saying.
As for who to have as characters in the movie, I think they should limit it to 5 core members, with maybe 1 or 2 supporting. Less is more.
Also, rogue getting into the action is a must, but if she gets her own permanent powers, I don’t think its necessary that she get the same ones that she was known for in the comics. She could be thrown into the action against her will, and ends up touching an enemy and draining him/her more than she intended to, and getting that mutant’s powers permanently, along with whatever baggage that person had.
the only way they can pull off what people want is to put the sentinels with the hellfireclub in the sequels to first class. that works. x-men IV is Charlie Sheen. new mutants. X-men V will have angel. that is
I really like the idea of a fourth x-man movie, but not like the previous ones. When I watch them, I was like, “Who is this little sissy? Oh, that’s Cyclops? Oookaaaay.” I’m also all for it, to bringing in Gambit and Emma Frost and also bringing back the professor, it’s just that there’s going to be a huge problem portraying Emma Frost radically. In x-men:First class, she shows up and looks to be 30 or 40, maybe. Then in x-men origins wolverine, she shows up again as Kayla Silverfox’s sister, but there she barely looks out of highschool. Wtf! And personally, I didn’t like how they let Rogue be “cured”, but in the end of the movie, it shows Magneto controlling the metal chess piece again, so maybe if they make anothe movie, they could show that as Rogue’s powers came back, she learned to control them. Also, how about Magneto’s kids, Wanda and Pietro?