• Xenforo Cloud has upgraded us to version 2.3.6. Please report any issues you experience.

Lauren Shuler Donner on Future X-Men

narrows101

Guest
Joined
Aug 16, 2005
Messages
5,039
Reaction score
0
Points
31
She spoke about Wolverine, Magneto, and any future X-Men movies. Here's the X-Men info.

http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_d4j_ezine&task=read&page=1&category=1&article=667&Itemid=28

IESB: Any chance of a whole year of X Men sequels and spin offs?

LSD: Yes, we could, and there are some other ideas that we are going to be delving into, but it's often availability of actors, availability of directors and weather conditions so you don't always have that luxury. Most importantly, the release date…what else is coming out…what other comic book are we going up against? So we always set our release dates before we start filming those movies.

IESB: Did you expect what you got out of X Men and what it has become?

LSD: In our wildest dreams we wanted it to be a franchise. We wanted it to be able to spin-off…there's 40 years of comics but I will tell you, we never previewed it and there was a day when Bryan [Singer], myself, our editor and, I think Tom Rothman was in the room, and we all looked at each other and said, “We'll never work again.” Because, we didn't know what we had…

IESB: Tom Rothman said even though X3 was the last of that ensemble of mutants, what of Gambit, any chance for a movie with him and what else is in the future?

LSD: Probably, the reason we didn't use Gambit was because in a sense his persona is a bit like Wolverine in that he's got attitude and his power is not quite as exciting as the others. That's why we went to Nightcrawler on X2 because he looked different than everybody else and he had a great power. So yes, I think we would weave Gambit into our story, but it wouldn't be “The Gambit Movie.” I love him and remember in “Lost” there was a guy in there that was the perfect Gambit, the guy with the stray hair, he's good-looking, the bad boy, Sawyer [Josh Holloway]…
 
They have said this for years. Gambit isn't a viable character for the franchise because "Adults" don't connect with him. He's too cartoony and would require a tremendous amount of production to re-invent the persona. When all was said and done it wouldn't even resemble the Gambit of the comics.

It wasn't just David Hayter & Bryan that hated the character.
 
too much like wolverine? hmm i never thaught of it like that good point. But he definatly is realistic for a x-movie. And i find his powers very unique....
 
Hmm...LSD... Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds or a drug? :p

I'm not sure about sequels... besides the terrible X3, I think with the trilogy we've got enough. People will be tired of X-Men and I can't really see Apocalypse or Mr. Sinister coming to the big screen... not serious enough, imo. But I want more Beast :p Isn't he appearing in the 4F2? :confused:
 
Interesting interview but Gambit is nothing like the other X-Men males.

Cyclops is intense and brooding. Gambit isn't. Wolverine is aggressive and animalistic with primal feelings and desires. Gambit isn't.

Gambit as I perceive him is romantic, dashing, flirtatious (a little like comicbook Nightcrawler's Errol Flynn aspects). He doesn't have bad attitude, he has good attitude - he's a charmer.

They can't keep wanting male characters to be swaggering around like Clint Eastwood. Josh Holloway has a vaguely kind-of-Gambit look but Sawyer's truculent, arrogant personality in Lost isn't Gambit at all.

For God's sake, they must try to understand the source characters a little better! This is why we have ended up with scaredycat Storm, crybaby Rogue, wimpy Cyclops and centrestage Wolverine!
 
Gambit is like Wolverine in that they're both bad boys with checkered pasts. The resemblance ends there.
 
I really thought Lauren understood the X-Men, from previous interviews, but for her to say Gambit is too like Wolverine and has an uninteresting power is shocking. And then to think Lost's Sawyer embodies the character of Gambit.

The people who make these movies must stop grafting their own stereotype personality ideas on to existing comicbook characters who have their own distinct personalities.

Yes, I liked all three movies, but they were not accurate to the source in many areas.

Gambit is nothing like Wolverine. And his power is not uninteresting. It could be depicted in a visually stylish way and the ability to charge objects he throws, or stationary objects, with an explosive energy could look fantastic and work well with the right visual FX. They could also use his low-level hypnotic 'charmer' ability too. In that sense he's like a magician, distracting with the charm and before you know it he is doing something thrilling and deadly.

Nothing like Wolverine at all. Move Jackman aside and let some other guy into the franchise.
 
OMG if Holloway ever plays Gambit i'll die. :(

Or kill whoever is responsible.

X-Maniac smartest posts you have ever made. :D
 
Holloway wouldn't make a bad Gambit. They'd just have to not write him like Sawyer.:huh:
 
I despise type-casting. The only requirements for someone to play Gambit should be someone who can match his physical appearance and who has a lot of talent - not someone who acts, or has acted in a role, that is like Gambit.
 
The Original Bamfer said:
I despise type-casting. The only requirements for someone to play Gambit should be someone who can match his physical appearance and who has a lot of talent - not someone who acts, or has acted in a role, that is like Gambit.

Exactly. Just because Sawyer isn't an exact replica of Gambit doesn't mean Holloway can't do the part...

Anyways, as much as I want Gambit, these producers really need to just let go of the X-Men before they destroy the franchise.

Spinoffs are NEVER a good idea, and Wolverine is no different. Magneto is an even worse idea, even if he does have a good backstory... it doesn't deserve it's own spinoff.

And any future sequels will just wreak of over-saturation.

And I'm getting sick and tired of every single producer, and member of every single creative team these movies have had thinking that Gambit is just another version of Wolverine... someone to replace Wolverine when Jackman won't come back anymore.

What an insult to the character. Gambit is much more than just Wolverine's "replacement"...

I like Lauren. I really do.

But she really needs to just let go of the X-Men movies before she ruins it with over saturation. Which is exactly what is happening.

I hate when that crap happens to movies. I don't want MY franchise to be ruined by that as well.
 
IMO gambit is like wolverine and if they were ever going to use him in a movie he turn out just like Wolverine.....Gambit has the same attributes of personalities and a shadowed past, not down to the wire but superficial......and besides Iceman was suppose to be the X-men first class clown price but that trait was given to wolverine.......can't have two bad asses on team.....can't have two flirts.....gambit had to get singled out...
 
Gambit is easygoing while Logan's more a hothead. Logan is also more cynical, and when he isn't in his animinalistic mode, he's often very stoic. Gambit doesn't seem to take himself to seriously, and he's much more flirtatious.
 
The Original Bamfer said:
I despise type-casting. The only requirements for someone to play Gambit should be someone who can match his physical appearance and who has a lot of talent - not someone who acts, or has acted in a role, that is like Gambit.

*sucks in lots of air*


RODRIGO SANTORO!!!

:D
 
Gambit deserves screen time...I DEMAND IT.
 
I think Holloway would have been great as Gambit. Specter313 posted this last year.....

avisualguide.jpg


http://www.superherohype.com/forums/showpost.php?p=7298050&postcount=35

Adding Gambit to X3 would be on the same level as the introduction of Venom in Spider-Man 3.Maybe not as big as Venom but it would have a lot more fans interested in seeing the movie.

All they needed to do was give one good scene and i'd be happy.
 
Excellent Josh/Gambit montage there...

He has the right look, but needs a more charming, less thuggish personality that Sawyer.

Here's hoping for another X-movie with him in it INSTEAD OF JACKMAN!
 
Josh Holloway, **** YEAH :D

I love how people are saying "sawyer isnt gambit blah blah" because in my eyes, they are both pretty similar characters. Josh proves time and time again that he can portray this character type fantastically. Not only does he look the part, he is a superb actor and he is the only reason im continuing to watch Lost.

If josh ever took the part of gambit in the future I'd go out and dance in the street :p
 
X-Maniac said:
Excellent Josh/Gambit montage there...

He has the right look, but needs a more charming, less thuggish personality that Sawyer.

Here's hoping for another X-movie with him in it INSTEAD OF JACKMAN!

Agreed 100%!
 
Retroman said:
I think Holloway would have been great as Gambit. Specter313 posted this last year.....

avisualguide.jpg


http://www.superherohype.com/forums/showpost.php?p=7298050&postcount=35

Adding Gambit to X3 would be on the same level as the introduction of Venom in Spider-Man 3.Maybe not as big as Venom but it would have a lot more fans interested in seeing the movie.

All they needed to do was give one good scene and i'd be happy.
Josh would be an awesome Gambit. I bet in costume...that would be a near 100% translation from comic to screen. I mean look at everything...even his nose is like Gambit's.
 
great visual guide- there's no one but him to do it in my opinion
 
I remember when Jean Claude Van Damme was in the running for Gambit when the first movie was in production. :woot: :woot:
 
X-Maniac said:
Excellent Josh/Gambit montage there...

He has the right look, but needs a more charming, less thuggish personality that Sawyer.

Here's hoping for another X-movie with him in it INSTEAD OF JACKMAN!

well Josh Holloway is an actor.. it is the character of Gambit not Sawyer.

eekk but they may have written the role like sawyer
 
gambitfire said:
she is naive towards the actually characters themselves. :(

EXACTLY!!! She's just like Penn and Kinberg. She's a hack and she's not the fangirl at heart she claims to be.:o LSD is also responsible for Constantine being so unfaithful.
 

Users who are viewing this thread

Users who are viewing this thread

Back
Top
monitoring_string = "afb8e5d7348ab9e99f73cba908f10802"