What We Need From X-Men 4
Sep 25, 2009 by Rob KeyesWe’ve got some radical ideas on how to make X-Men 4 a movie WORTH making – and that would rock fans and general audiences BIG time.
Make Cyclops act like Cyclops.
Scott Summers is bad-ass, especially in modern X-comics where he’s the leader of mutantkind. James Marsden is also bad-ass and could be an awesome Cyclops if they write him properly.
They tossed poor Cyclops to the side in the first two movies to showcase their poster boy, Wolverine and then “killed” him off in X3: The Last Stand because of his scheduling to do Superman Returns with (the good) X-Men director, Bryan Singer.
Bring Cyclops back the comic book way (he ain’t really dead) and let him lead the team for once. Marsden has had a ton of roles in popular movies since X3 and it’s time he was handed a prominent role in X-Men. He makes for a much better leader than Halle Berry’s Storm.
There’s no “I” in X-Men.
By that, I mean there’s no “I” in team. The X-Men franchise is strong enough now to no longer need to rely on Hugh Jackman to command half the film’s screentime. Have him guest spot or play a secondary character – he’s more effective that way – and have the story focus on the team achieving a goal rather then him pursuing his past.
Besides, Jackman will be having his own adventures in Japan come Wolverine 2, he doesn’t need a sixth solo flick (I count all four existing X-movies as being his).
Action & Brains
Singer did it all in his first two films, Ratner just brought action into the sequel. Action is useless unless there’s some motivation behind it. It has to mean something and make sense to the audience for it to matter, to work, to be cool, and to be memorable.
Remember the big set piece in X3 where Magneto brings his army over on the bridge to fight the defending soldiers and the X-Men? His strategic thinking was to lose two-thirds of his men to enemy gun fire first (they shot anti-mutation ammunition), THEN to have his new Morlock partner, Arclight, take out the weapons? Uhhh… why not do that first, dumbass. I think the 6-year-olds in the theater next to me could of managed that battle better.
Let’s not forget the 10 minutes straight of Magneto randomly throwing cars and Pyro lighting them on fire. Ridiculous.
Give us a story that we can get into, a story the characters can be a part of that makes sense.
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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.