Sequels Magneto's official comicbook history

[X-Maniac]

This is a decent website that details Magneto's past as far as the Joseph clone storyline. It seems pretty accurate, and would be a good thing for a screenwriter/director to study...

http://www.alara.net/opeople/xbooks/magtime.html

 

[Neto Magnus]

Since when do writers and directors check the comicbooks for reference?

 

[X-Maniac]

Since when do writers and directors check the comicbooks for reference?

They DO check the comics. That's obvious from the movies we've seen so far. Storm's white hair, Magneto's helmet and his wartime origin, Wolverine's claws and the augmentation chamber in X2, Sentinels, Phoenix, the cure storyline, the Stryker storyline, Leech, etc, etc, etc... are all from the comics. So, obviously the writers and directors do look at the comics. They take what the need for a movie screenplay, with varying degrees of success. It goes wrong when the spirit of the original story is lost because studio demands (X3) or unsupervised directors (SR) overpower the essence of the original story by going off at a wild tangent. Singer's cautious restraint with X1 and X2 worked better than X3's chaotic 'let's try to do everything' approach; and worked better than SR's overindulgent misdirection.

Sadly, the writers of X3 said that they began from a premise of 'What wasn't Bryan able to achieve' instead of beginning from 'What WAS Bryan able to achieve' and then building on that.

 

[Neto Magnus]

lol dude, I was being sarcastic.

 

[X-Maniac]

lol dude, I was being sarcastic.

Dude, your sarcasm doesn't make sense.

 

[Arkady Rossovich]

I dont really think the movie will take too much from the comics.

 

[X-Maniac]

I dont really think the movie will take too much from the comics.

I think they should study the comicbook history... but, more importantly, it should segue with the movie events - what has been seen and said in the three X-movies. Unless they are doing something independent of the three films.

 

[Neto Magnus]

Dude, your sarcasm doesn't make sense.

well it certainly seems like they dont sometimes.