Not necessarily relevant, but still awesome.
If you all will indulge me, I have some page view whoring to do here on Vince’s pretty CSS style sheet…
There have been a variety of rumors regarding the direction that Fox would be taking the X-Men after the overwhelming success of X-Men: First Class rescued the franchise from the Cheetos-dusted fingers of Brett Ratner’s demise. For starters, we know that Patrick Stewart will be returning as Professor X in X-Men: Days of Future Past, and he also hinted that other actors will also reprise their roles from the original trilogy.
Obviously, we knew that Hugh Jackman is still Wolverine, because he was in First Class and he’s filming The Wolverine, and nobody else was born to play Wolverine like Jackman, but now we also know that P-Stew wasn’t lying because Famke Janssen has a cameo in The Wolverine. Additionally, by hiring Mark Millar to oversee all of its Marvel properties, Fox is working diligently to create an alliance not only between X-Men and Fantastic Four, but also possibly Marvel’s The Avengers, which would obviously be amazing.
So now the bad news – Matthew Vaughn is no longer directing Days of Future Past because he’s working on another film. I know, I’m bummed, too.
Vaughn has stepped down from the director’s chair for the highly anticipated sequel. It’s unclear what the reasons are at this point, and it would seem he would’ve had a bigger production schedule this time around, with an early 2013 start planned. But he’s not throwing in the towel completely. Vaughn will take a producer role on the picture, and will direct another movie instead for Fox, where he happens to be eyeing a couple of projects (“Superior” and “The Secret Service”) from their new creative consultant Mark Millar (convenient). (Via Indiewire)
Don’t worry, that headline is just some ol’ Burnsy trolling. Indiewire also reports that Fox wants Bryan Singer back in the director’s chair for Days of Future Past, and that would obviously be a good thing. Or they could take a page from Marvel’s playbook and hire a first-timer with a love of comics. Either way, just for safety’s sake, someone should put some extra tryptophan in Ratner’s Jager-glazed turkey this Thanksgiving so maybe he’ll hibernate through the entire production of this film.
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Thanksgiving has to be the worst day to be on Ratner’s casting couch. Turkey flecks and sweet potato dribble everywhere, and the gravy boat is literally a boat.
Not sure if want. I mean, unless they’re going to completely ignore X-3. If that’s the case, then I shall be delighted.
This is still a prequel to the first 3, right? Bring on the F. Assbender and Jennifer Lawrence! More detours involving strip clubs and CIA agents in lingerie! January Jones cleav for all!
Damn you Burnsy, I read the headline and immediately bought shares in a shrimp boat….
I just hope it’s the Bryan Singer who directed Usual Suspects and the first two X-Men, and not the Bryan Singer who directed Superman Returns and Valkyrie.
Shut up, Valkyrie apologists, that movie blew.
Superman Returns blew all there was to blow, leaving little for any subsequent movies.
What I liked about Superman Returns is that I was able to select it on a flight from San Francisco to London and it ate up a nice chunk of time will keeping me in a semi-vegetative state. Same with the Miami Vice movie.
From what Cruise said Vince, he checked the people in there and only the ladies blew, so not really fair to say the whole movie did.
Someone gave me the Superman Returns DVD for Christmas a few years back. It’s still unopened, and they were paralyzed from an accident at work and then subsequently divorced. Karma is a funny thing.
@Roddy
Re-gift time!
Holy crap, was that movie awful. Superman vs. the diabolical real estate scheme.
This movie takes place after X3 but it’s whole plot revolves around traveling back in time to the Fassbender/McAvoy era to ret-con the events of X3. Having Bryan Singer direct it is only poetic justice for Fox letting Ratner ruin X3 to begin with.
Ironically the events cause X3 to happen in the first place and then they give Fassbender weird facial prosthetics to look more like Ian McKellen.
“…nobody else was born to play Wolverine like Jackman”
Except maybe a guy who ISN’T 6 FOOT FUCKING 3!!!
Neck up.
Agreed Yogi. Some one get Taylor Lautner in make up. Have his balls dropped yet?
Glen Danzig
brian’s x-men films sucked
Verdict reached, folks. Everyone go home.
Compelling and rich.
Anna, I suggest you rally up some of your coworkers at DISH and give X-Men and X2: X-Men United another shot. You don’t even need to leave your house because, with the help of Blockuster@home, these and over 14 billion other titles are never more than just a click of a button away!
Get Rian Johnson!!! And maybe the new director can restrain themselves from knocking up January Jones.
That said, I’m bummed Matthew Vaughn bailed on another X-Men movie. I really liked 1st Class.
Not kidding, when I was reading a few other sites to see who the other “short list” directors might be, there were January Jones apologists going nuts over the Matthew Vaughn daddy controversy. “The baby clearly looks like her ex-boyfriend Jason Sudeikis” is apparently the new battle cry.
Jason Sudeikis used to date her? How has that guy tagged EVERY chick in Hollywood?
He used “Wilmer Valderama’s Guide to Dumb Hollywood Gash”. Autographed hardcover edition of course.
Rian Johnson would be a pretty great choice. But, I remember reading a Q&A he did on io9 where he said he wants to just work on his own stuff for the time being.
So is this gonna take place after First Class and before the original trilogy but Jean Grey is gonna look like she’s pushing 50? I’d hit that tho. NO HOMO
Days of Future Past would take place between X2 and the execrable X3. Despite taking place after the Dark Phoenix saga (X3, kinda) in the comics, it also takes place in a “past” where Cyclops and Prof Xavier are alive and Colossus and Nightcrawler are regular members. In that X3 sucks so hard, the realities of X2 outweigh the bastardization of the Phoenix saga arc of X3. Maybe we can all just forget it even happened?
The title suggests an Apocalypse storyline. That’d be sweet if we get to see Cable.
high5
your’e an idiot