10.19.09 THE X-MEN/WOLVERINE/MAGNETO UPDATE
(Wolverine gets super pissed when you suggest wearing sleeves. It’s already a sore subject for his posse.)
Unlike most of the other Marvel properties, Fox still owns the rights to X-Men. And, as I often say of your mother, that’s a cow dey gon’ milk. Empire recently caught up with producer Lauren Shuler Donner to get a status update on all the planned X-Men spinoffs, including Wolverine 2, Deadpool, X-Men First Class, Magneto, and xXx-Men: Marvel goes Diesel. Just kidding about that last one, but this is Fox we’re talking, don’t be surprised.
On Wolverine 2:
“That’s the furthest along of all the X-Men projects on the boil. It’s actually the story we wanted to use for the first Wolverine film, but [Fox head honcho] Tom Rothman preferred to set the character up with an origin story first. This movie will really focus on the relationship between Wolverine and Mariko, the daughter of a Japanese crime lord, and what happens to him in Japan.
And we wanted an A+ writer, so we want to Chris McQuarrie (Valkyrie, The Usual Suspects). He came in and has tightened the story and got really immersed in the whole thing – he’s in Japan in his head!
Donner added, “He keeps rubbing up against women on the subway, and the other day he tried to buy my daughter’s panties. Someone’s gonna have to talk to the guy.”
On X-Men: First Class – still being written by The OC/Gossip Girls creator Josh Schwartz:
“Right now the script is not done -we’re not where we want to be yet. Harry Potter is a bit of a role model for us, absolutely. But we want it to be like the recent, darker Potters.The First Class comics are really fun – they’re funnier than any other comics I’ve read. … Occasionally the kids will be in class, but more often they’ll be off on adventures. Which Professor X isn’t too happy about! There’s nothing more interesting than a bad kid, and this is full of naughty children. Cyclops, for example – he’s a tough kid that bobbed from foster home to foster home, until he ends up at the school and becomes the leader. There’s also still an element of friction between the mutants and the outside world. Remember that this will be set way back before anyone knew mutants existed.”
Cyclops is “a tough kid who leads with his fists, and often, his heart,” you might say.
On Deadpool:
“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 [and also super sexy -Ed.].
We’re right in the thick of talking to writers right now, and hopefully by November we’ll have decided who’s going to do it.
I don’t see it as a problem that Ryan [Reynolds] is also playing Green Lantern. I mean, look at Harrison Ford – he was in Stars Wars and Indiana Jones at the same time and everyone was fine with that.”
*psst* Hey, lady, Star Wars and Indiana Jones are sort of sore subjects these days.
On Magneto:
“David Goyer has written a brilliant script. It starts in the concentration camps and has Magneto coming out of there. But you know, I’m not sure that film is going to be made. The studio has a wealth of potential stories, and they have to stand back and decide which ones to make. And Magneto, I think, is at the back of the queue. Maybe it’ll get made in five years – who knows? I can tell you that Ian McKellen won’t be playing the character the whole way through. We used Lola technology in X-Men 3 to de-age Ian and Patrick for one scene, but it’s very expensive. To do that for a two-hour movie would be prohibitive financially. And to find a younger actor to fill Ian’s shoes, that’s pretty daunting. It’s not easy.” [via Empire]
Two words for you, lady: Cam. Gigandet. He’s got the gravitas of a young Mark Wahlberg. POW!
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THE X-MEN/WOLVERINE/MAGNETO UPDATE
Re: that banner pic
What’s so god damn interesting on the floor?
Wolverine recently covered the floor of his room with Jonas Brothers posters.
There’s nothing more interesting than a bad kid
This guy just got himself put on a government watch list. We should all welcome him to the club.
Chris McQuarrie is my favorite writer so thats a plus for Wolverine 2. The other 7 hundred and 36 thousand minuses involve Tom Fuckstick Rothman. And no Fuckstick is not a nickname.
I want to ignore the version of Deadpool that we saw in Wolverine and just start over again.
Well, they’ve one-upped Wolverine already. As much as I approve of sexy Wade Wilson, I’d like to forgot that the Baraka-looking abortion at the end of the movie ever happened.
So of the movies they’re talking about, they’re farthest away from the one involving a concentration camp?
Does Fox never want Oscar consideration?
“I don’t see it as a problem that Ryan [Reynolds] is also playing Green Lantern. I mean, look at Harrison Ford – he was in Stars Wars and Indiana Jones at the same time and everyone was fine with that.”
God these people are stupid. How do they run a fucking studio but can’t make a proper analogy? Indy and Solo are created by the same fucking guy. So THATS why no one had a fucking problem with it. A proper analogy would have been if Harrison Ford played Han Solo and Captain Kirk. If no one had a problem with that than you got your analogy. Jesus, I feel myself getting dumber just trying to make sense of these idiots at Fox.
Spike Lee approves of the darker Potters.
“That’s the furthest along of all the X-Men projects on the boil. It’s actually the story we wanted to use for the first Wolverine film, but [Fox head honcho] Tom Rothman preferred to set the character up with an origin story fuck up the entire franchise first.”
It’s a good thing that Fox doesn’t own any theme parks like Disney and Universal. It would be filled with half-finished rides like a sadist’s game of Coaster Tycoon.
well fuck, strike tags are depreciated here. I WAS TOO LAZY TO USE CSS.
My eyes need a healing factor to recover from that Wolverine movie.
Use del and /del, Jirish
Something tells me Fox is gonna make X-Men:First Class feel like X-Men:Coach
You think you’re better than me?????Thanks DH!“We used Lola technology in X-Men 3 to de-age Ian and Patrick for one scene, but it’s very expensive.”
“So difficult to get the blood of virgins these days.”, he added, stroking his beard.
When I’m in Japan in my mind is when women get the run-by cum shot.
he’s a tough kid that bobbed from foster home to foster home
Somebody’s been using the Roget’s Homoerotic Thesaurus I bought him for Christmas.
I think they’re all looking down in that photo because they’re ashamed. And they should be.
We used Lola technology in X-Men 3 to de-age Ian and Patrick for one scene, but it’s very expensive
They use a similar technology, dubbed “Lolita” to make Miley Cyrus look like she’s of age.
“That’s the furthest along of all the X-Men projects on the boil…
He’s right though, it takes FOREVER to boil dead horse to make it tender enough to beat.
The Wolverine movie wasn’t as bad as He thought it was going to be, but He had pretty low expectations. At least they didn’t drag out Albert and Elsie-Dee*. >:(
*realizes that 2, 3 people tops will know what He means
Interesting that there’s no plans to de-fag Gambit. I think they have camps for that though.
Hey McQuarrie…the longest distance between two points is a me to a Fox film. Save your breath.
Re: The banner picture
Of course the woman would be looking the opposite way of where the interesting thing on the floor is. Women be stupid! Amirite fellas?!
I’d much rather see X-Men: Head of the Class where Dr. Samuels can teach mutants important life lessons.
Brett Ratner uses Lola technology to make voices dark brown and champagne taste like cherry cola.
Finding a young actor to fill Ian’s… poor Fox, everything works there except for shoes.
Wolverine started out pretty well, and was passable until the end. Then it just spiraled into pure awful.
I heard Polansky was finishing his film while in prison. I didn’t realize he was working on the x-men franchise.
I think a movie about the scriptwriter who thinks hes in Japan would be better than any of these
Patty, it’s fine if you can some how forget about the unforgivable CG effects they did to his claws and for things like him cutting the fireladder in the alley way.
I sure as hell can’t forgive that.
On the other hand, it could be worse if Disney had scored the X-men rights. The Wolverine Sequel would probably be about an animated wolverine and his furry friends.
Is this what happens when a toad gets struck by lightning? Marginally passably movies with strangely gay overtones?? Couldn’t the fucking thing just turn into a prince or something?
I’m just horrified at what they did to Deadpool. Who thought that was a good idea!?
The foster homes only passed Cyclops around because he was a wandering eye.
Wolverine 2: Adamantium Bub-aloo
In the reboot, Deadpool will be played by Orville Redenbacher’s jacuzzi.
I think it was Lola technology that cost Alex Zanardi his legs.
They better hurry up and make First Class. Because after a while my desire to see a film based on teenage mutants goes from simply geeky to full blown creepy.
I’m still waiting for Fox to make a movie about a team of tranny crime fighters that operate out of the back of Eddie Murphy’s limo – Ex-Men.
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