X-Men 3

An Emma Frost film would be great. and a Mutant academy where they are just bumming around and being students rather than saving the world would be a very interesting prospect. a superhero young ones!!! :D
 
Saw this yesterday - better than I feared and it was good to finally see a balls-out X Men action flick as opposed to the introspective angst of the first two (great as they were).

A few things that bugged me -

Cyclops' death - if he did die - was very throwaway and no-one seemed to care that much

Vinnie Jones has a very American sounding name for a Brit (Kane Marco? - spelling?).
Why was Magneto foxed by plastic guns when the soldiers were surrounded by metal objects which could be used as weapons against them?
Not sure if I want to see any more X-flicks but it still gets 7 out of 10 from me.
 
Dont be saying stuff like that, the producers might hear you and bring her back with Cyclops! Although it will feel strange to me (although i dont read the comics) not to have them in an X-men movie.



Can you please explain that for those of us who havnt read the comics?
 
^BUT,
In the world of Xmen, there is a character that brings back people, this has happened in the comics, thus leading to the resurrection of Cyclops and Xavier in a potential 4th movie (if Xmen 3 is a smash hit at the box office), IF they die that is, and its seeming highly likely that they are ;)
 
Yup, betcha Dell paid over a good 7-figure fee to get their logos on everything. Did feel a bit gratuitous at times, but hey, that's the commercial reality of making a movie.

Btw, do we know if the Wolverine / Madrox Multiple Man fight will be on the DVD? Or was it just something that had been speculated upon?
 
It's possible that they didn't have time to complete things. It's been reported on places like aintitcool.com that the film was rushed out to get a release before Superman.
 
Gene Grey WON'T be in Xmen 3 - FACT! :)

Jean Grey will be though - anyone who has read the particular comic books that the movies are milking for plot will know that she is an essential part of the overall story arc...
 
I reckon X4 could be a bit lame with so few of the characters that were central to X1 and X2 - Magneto, Rogue, Phoenix, Cyclops, Mystique and Xavier. Thus, if X4 were to be made, I think it should be viable that the 'cure' is not permanent, and everyone's powers were to return. If not, then pretty much only Wolverine and Storm are the 2 'main' characters remaining, so either a hoarde of new characters would have to be introduced, or the few undeveloped characters would take more of a leading role.

PS, I haven't read the comics or watched the cartoons, so everything I know about X Men is from the films - please don't shout at me!!! :)
 
I'll probably do like I did with DD, buy it, and just give the original cut away and buy an EE shoud it come out.

Or I may just re-edit the deleted scenes back in as a pet project. DepenRAB how "finished" they are.
 
Yeah I had heard that Alan Cummings was happy that Singer had left X Men for Superman!
At least the major actors of the X Men cast such as Ian McKellan, Patrick Stewart and Hugh Jackman will be back as well as Shawn Ashmore, Alan Cummings, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos and Anna Paquin who were contractually obligated to come back for the third film. Also Hugh Jackman has veto power over the new director for the third film!
The fact that James Marsden has left isnt a big problem as his part as Cyclops could easly be recast and nobody would really notice. I cant understand his decision to quit a major part in X Men 3 for a bit part in Superman!
The only real concern is for Famke Janssen and the rumours about her being up for a part in Superman but this may turn out to be false. They need to keep her for X Men 3 especially with the Dark Phoenix being a big part of X Men 3!
 
X3 director Matthew Vaughn recently talked about X3 and here is what he said about it.
"It was a mutual finding of each other," Vaughn said when he was asked how he got involved with X3. "I heard Singer wasn't doing it, and I just told my agent that I'd be intrigued and asked "can you get me in a room?" They saw the film and really liked it. X-Men has sort of taken me by surprise. One of the reasons I'm attracted to it is also the reason why I'm scared of it, is that it's such a short amount of time to get it done. I thought maybe it would be good to do it because there's a lot for me to learn if I do it. The irony is that I haven't got the luxury of casting most of these guys, which is going to be odd, especially if I don't like what they're doing, cause I'm going to have to pull them aside and tell them to ignore everything they did in the last film."

Vaughn's said his approach to X3 will differ from Singer's two X-Men films. "I can emphasize with what's gone on," he said. "I think Singer probably treats it in a more simplistic manner then I'm going to. It's going to expand on things. There's three or four scenes I know people will just be shocked and close to tears."

Vaughn said he didn't seem too nervous about the amount of pressure on him to follow in Singer's footsteps. "I'm all for fans being wary of me; they've got the right to be," he explained. "I'm just going to make the film as good as I can, and hopefully, they'll like it. I know that there's going to be elements I'm going to be bringing to it that will worry the fans in the sense that I want to make a movie that stanRAB up in twenty, thirty years time basically. The film I'm doing is more in the tone of [the Clint Eastwood Western] 'Unforgiven'." He wasn't too worried about the bigness of this type of project compared to his smaller-scale debut. "I just want to make films that I think are entertaining. I like the idea of doing big budget films with a heart."

Vaughn was asked about Vinnie Jones playing Juggernaut in X3. "What's interesting about Juggernaut is that he's the brother of Professor X, and that's why I thought it would be interesting having an English thug opposite Patrick Stewart." Vaughn wasn't too familiar with the origin of the character but he didn't think it would have anything to do with Vietnam as with Stan Lee's origin of the character. He said that he had been looking into the Dark Phoenix story, but admitted that he thought "bits of it are great but other bits are a mess."

Vaughn was asked if he was a fan of comic books. "I like comic books, but I don't read them like I used to," he told us. "I quite like graphic novels more than comic books. That's how I got to know Neil Gaiman. I like to be entertained and I like good stories. I think people who write comics take them very seriously, so you get that serious application to quite a commercial world." He wouldn't tell us what his favorite comics were because they might give away the plot for X3. According to him, " they have become the basis for the film", but he did admit a fondness for Joss Whedon's recent run on the characters in the comic book!
 
I was just reading an interview with Bill Duke (Commando, Predator) about his role in X3:

"Question: What role do you play in "X-Men: The Last Stand"?

Bill Duke: General Trask is the head of Homeland Security. He's the President's right hand man and he has the responsibility of advising the president in terms of everything, every action.

Question: Is that General Trask different from what's in the comic books because Bolivar Trask is the creator of the Sentinels?

Bill Duke: I think to a certain extent, the character is. I hadn't read all of the comic books. As a matter of fact, I hadn't read the script that we shot. We weren't allowed to do that. All you read was the scene that you had and you never saw the script at all.

Question: Having directed films yourself, can you compare/contrast the shooting styles of Singer's and Ratner's versions of the film?

Bill Duke: I've never worked with Bryan Singer so I can't answer that question truthfully. I can tell you that Brett Ratner is a perfectionist, a detailed person down to the finest possible turn of the page; and as a result, I think he has the ability to work with actors which most directors don't. In fact, when you're moving around, he tells you what's happening before and what's happening after and then you talk about the execution of your part in terms of the character that both you and he creates

Question: Are you signed for a sequel, if the franchise continues?

Bill Duke: No, but verbally, I've been told that if things go well, there's some interest in me continuing in the process of the character "

So maybe some more X Men films coming after X3!
 
Oh, I really like the x-men films and the cartoon (when it was on saturday mornings). Shame their not making a fourth. :(

Still really excited to see X-men 3 when it comes out.
 
According to some reports America’s Next Top Model contestant Mercedes Scelba-Shorte will play the role of M in X3. M or Monet St. Croix is a perfect young woman born into a rich Morrocan family who could fly, possessed super strength and had telepathic abilities. Her somewhat uppity manner was an annoyance to her teammates and her habit of going into deep trances was a mystery to her teachers.
Also joining the cast is another young newcomer, Ashley Hartman from the American TV show The O.C who will be playing Emma Frost in X3. Another rumour also has it that these two new characters might be spinning-off into a new X-Men spin-off in the future.
 
I have just read now that the earlier story about Wolverine being 100% confirmed for release in 2007 may not be true as Wolverine is being started now with hopes for a 2007 release date!
 
I think someone just came up with that lol however having just watched all 5 seasons of the cartoon there was a similar Xmen team called the X-factor I belive and Multiple man beat up wolverine pretty good...... so people might as assumed it would be like that in the films.

Tis a great shame all multiple man did in the film was stand there and be a decoy
 
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