Lauren Schuler-Donner is one chatty cathy. Speaking with Empire Online, the producer lets fly a few tidbits about the future of certain X-men related films over at 20th Century Fox. A few of the highlights...
On Wolverine 2, Donner revealed that the Japanese story they are telling in the sequel is what they actually wanted to tell in the first Wolverine film. The head of 20th Century Fox, Tom Rothman, nixed that idea preferring to make as lame a first film as possible in order to set up a character that EVERYBODY ALREADY KNOWS!!!! She says, "There’ll be samurai, ninja, katana blades, different forms of martial arts — mano-a-mano, extreme fighting." Could be good, and pretty much has to be better than the last one.
She likens the tone of the upcoming X-men: First Class films to the most recent Harry Potters in that they will be darker and not just for the kiddies. She says, "It should not be a kiddie movie: we’re in the X-Men world so you can’t suddenly change the tone. The First Class comics are really fun — they’re funnier than any other comics I’ve read. Basically in each one the kids are fighting strange villains, sometimes it’s aliens, sometimes it’s monsters. I want to get a flavour of that world." This is a good idea, and I think lends itself perfectly to Bryan Singer being behind the camera. Either that or Joss Whedon. Yes, I'm throwing that out there.
The real juicy nugget comes on the subject of Deadpool, starring Ryan Reynolds. Here's what she had to say on the subject..
"I want to ignore the version of Deadpool that we saw in Wolverine and just start over again. Reboot it. Because this guy talks, obviously, and to muzzle him would be insane."
Well that's the best news I've read on this movie since the project was proposed. Getting as much distance away from the woeful portrayal of him in X-men Origins: Wolverine is the smart way to go, because that version of the character has no shot at becoming a franchise anything. She then goes on to say some fairly obvious stuff like Green Lantern and Deadpool are two different characters so there isn't a problem with Ryan Reynolds playing both. Duh.
Oh, and that proposed Magneto movie? Looks like it might be a no go since it keeps getting put on the backburner behind other projects. Good. I never liked the sound of it, anyway.
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Call me old school but Wolverine has never been my favorite character. Always followed the nice and "good" characters. I am definitly looking forward to the Deadpool movie is we see the one in the first half of the movie.
ReplyDeleteWould have to disagree about Magneto movie. That would be the ultimate Frantz Fanon pic. The oppressed gaining power and oppressing the people who oppressed him. I may be in the minority but would look forward to that pic.
I've been a reader of the X-men comics for...25 years now? God I'm old. And at the time Wolverine was THE character everybody loved, so I have a soft spot for him, even if he isn't my favorite on the team(Longshot, Gambit). Deadpool is probably my favorite Marvel character. Has been since his very first appearance when he got his ass whupped by X-Force, but that guy in the Wolverine movie was not Deadpool. Sure, the first part of the film is closer to the comic version but even it was a pale imitation.
ReplyDeleteAs for Magneto, I get that the potential power of the film is greater than others but my main reason for disliking it was that it never felt like there was any focus. The studio never seemed to be able to nail down the approach they wanted to take. I'd rather have no film at all than a half assed one.