They say that a film franchise has completely ran it’s course when the only route of progression is for prequels and spin-offs rather than real sequels.
If that is truly the case then the X-Men franchise is in real trouble.
Wolverine hits next year… last we heard David Goyer was in charge of a Magneto spin-off... Zak Penn is apparently writing a Young X-Men movie and now comes word from Josh Schwartz (creator of Gossip Girl, Chuck and The O.C.) that he is the latest scribe to get in on the act!
Or is he just picking up where Penn left off? Apparently his movie will center on teenage characters at the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning…
“I’m very well aware that I’ll be bludgeoned by purists, but I love its mythology, and it comes with a pretty hefty paycheck,” Schwartz told Black Book Magazine. “It’s not like I’m adding new characters like Toaster Head, or anything like that. The Hulk looks like it’s going to be terrible. And why does he look like he’s fighting against the monster from Cloverfield? I mean, with Transformers, it’s not like fans were going to come back saying, ‘You used the wrong car.’ This, however, is a different story.”
The O.C. with superhero powers?
Worrying.
The X-Men franchise is in a bit of a flux right now. I think there’s lots of life let in the series but I’m less excited about all these spin-offs (though a Wolverine movie could kick ass, the script I read – though it’s likely to be changed – was horrible). I would prefer a nice continuing series like the Harry Potter flicks which grow and grow, adding a few new characters here and there, and trying a different kind of plot each time.
source – /film
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How could they have run out of ideas for X-men? Oh, that’s right, Dumbass Don Murphy was running the show on this one.
I suppose that ignorant sack of monkeysh*t never heard of Apocalypse, or Genosha. x-Men has 4 DECADES of material to pull from, how can anyone other than an asleep-at-the-wheel studio hack say “We’re not sure where else we could go from here?” BTW Matt, as I’m sure you know X-Men has lasted 40-plus years by using the Harry Potter method of infusing new blood an reinventing itself every few years.
It would take talent and vision to handle a franchise big as X-Men. Don Murphy has neither and neither does 20th Century Fox.
Guess we’ll have to wait til the right revert back to Marvel and see if they do any better.
Like Jay Said, They Have an ass load and a half of material to choose from. Let’s see Some real Sentinels (and not just the head), Apocalypse would be an excellent choice. What they should be doin’ in something like what Batman begins did, It told a story and then left the window for the sequel there so that a trilogy could be made, Instead of 2 mediocre films and a sack-o-shit. Hollywood should leave it to a group of fan boys to write this and compare it to some writer of all genres, then see who has the final word.
Gossip Girl? X-Men? What??? I love how he mentions the paycheck as his main motivator, and also how he disses the HULK. The people behind the HULK movie are a thousand times more talented than the mind behind Gossip Girl.
As for X-Men sequels, the only reason we aren’t getting them is because the cost of the cast is now astronomical. Maybe they should re-cast the most expensive actors? There is a lot of desire for more X-Men sequels. For all the critical drubbing X3 took, the public loved it more than they like Superman Returns, which got better reviews.
Yahoo Movies:
X3 – Critics: B- , Users: B+ (68,455 ratings)
SR – Critics: B , Users: B (53,480 ratings)
IMDB:
X3 – 7.0 (73,842 ratings)
SR – 6.8 (75,943 ratings)
HA! My contempt of SR continues to be validated! ::Feels special glow:: But, more to the point, the audience good will is there to sustain more X-Men sequels. I wonder how the audience would feel if the studio tried a total recast to bring down costs and make this feasible?
this sounds like a bad idea to me-Fox is gonna milk X-men until it goes back to Marvel the way The Salkinds milked Superman, Supergirl, Superboy,etc,etc-plus, this Gossip Girl writer comes off like an arrogent asshole in that interview. Let’s hope Wolverine is good and then do X4-and get as many actors back or good new ones for other team members-and re-cast Storm, if need be.
Toaster Head? Cloverfield? Hulk? Transformers? and his big fat paycheck…this is all this 1 movie (Gossip girl) fool can speak about on his concept and ideas of an X-Men prequel? sounds like an over confident a**hole and no respect to film or fans but to blow smoke up our a**es. fire him before he continues!
Ok, now people can make all their OC, teen show comments.
Let him keep talking, I haven’t seen someone in the film industry shoot themselves in the ass since Troy Duffy and I’d love to see it happen to this fool.
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[...] Back in May, Josh Schwartz, the creator of Gossip Girl and The O.C. made it slip that he was writing a new X-MEN movie based on the younger and lesser known characters of Professor Xavier’s institute and although 20th Century Fox refused for months to confirm it, the story has finally been confirmed by Variety today. [...]