KRYPTON INC.
Incorporated Kryptonian
- Joined
- May 23, 2013
- Messages
- 85,991
- Reaction score
- 41,564
- Points
- 103
See... I wanna actually see the founding team as honest to God students and see how their training and relationship with Charles actually affects them as characters. Jumping from teens to being old enough to run the school skips years and years of development. It feels like where we met Jean and Scott in the Fox films. Granted sure, I expect them to be better defined in the MCU (At least... I hope... I don't drink the Kool Aid in terms of Marvel Studios unimpeachable excellence in all things...) but having them be already graduates running things the other three as supporting staff AND then at least, what, three to four younger Mutants to also give some depth to... plus ancillary characters and whomever the villain or villains are? I think that's a lot to juggle. And a lot of what made these people who they are just happened off screen?I HATE the time jumps in the FC series (and I am not too fond of the Endgame 5 year jump either), but I will allow for one in the MCU reboot to get the original team onscreen, if only for an opening sequence.
We get a classic battle between the high school aged X-Men vs Magneto and the Brotherhood. Then we reconnect with the original five, with Scott and Jean reopening a small school (no mansion yet) and recruiting a new class of superpowered youngins. The focus would be on the power couple and a half dozen kids (maybe a dozen kids in total?), with the other 3 original X-Men in supporting roles. I'm thinking Warren is funding this new venture.
My villain would be Emma and her Massachusetts Academy. And her Hellions, all funded by the Hellfire Club. Slobs vs snobs high school conflict with high octane superhero battles! Do we get a potential budding romance between rival students? Yes! A baseball game between schools? Yes again! Is Emma flirty with Scott? What do you think? Yes! Will we watch the young students grow up on screen ala Harry Potter? Yes indeedy!
Not sure how that would turn out.
I do like the idea of Frost and her students, as that is a change up but still works on the idea of what Charles' approach is as compared to those that would give life lessons that Mutants are just gonna do as they please without concerns for the wider world.
I will say... I have a strong feeling that there won't ever be any kind of Emma/Scott material in the MCU. Given the track record they likely would go with more Classic and known to the wider audience material. I am betting that if Emma shows up she will be a straight up villain without a hint of even the possibility of a relationship with Scott. She will be a layered character (hopefully) but I reckon they won't go super soap opera until or if Logan gets into the mix.
Given how the MCU didn't sprawl all over every nook and cranny of lore and history available for adaptation with what's already been produced in 11 years I think we need to temper just how much they will put on the table. Expecting say, a series where we see Scott with Jean, the turn to Phoenix, Jean's death, Scott ending up with Emma, Casandra Nova, Mr. Sinister's Summers family obsessions, Xorn, Cable, The New Mutants, then The New Mutants changing to X-Force etc. etc. etc... It won't get that crazy.
Yeah... We definitely will get characters and concepts that never made it to the screen in 19 years of the Fox continuity. But I think we have to really be conservative with this. Even if they made a dedicated effort to put out four Mutant based film franchises (Which... I don't see happening overnight, because Marvel Studios will have other characters outside the Mutants they will develop and exploit as well let us remember so getting to even three simultaneous running Mutant based franchises in the MCU might already be pushing it over the line...) for example an Uncanny X-Men series, a Wolverine solo series, New Mutants/X-Force and maybe... I don't know... X-Factor? That's still doing stories within the frame work of two hour chunks every two to three years. They aren't capable of getting to every last morsel of comic book history to adapt. That's not been the track record of the MCU so far with nine different franchises. They picked chose what elements to bring in all towards the end of fitting it all in with the context of their mega arc, all while also making adjustments along the way obviously. Even after a hypothetical ten year run let's say of MCU Mutant films I don't expect Phoenix/Dark Phoenix, Hellfire Club, Proteus, Legion, Shadow King, Muir Island Saga, Fall Of The Mutants, Inferno, Casandra Nova, Xorn, Sentinels, Mystique/Destiny Brotherhood, Magneto, Polaris, Haxok and on and on...
Some of those things will happen... but not all and there will be gigantic trade offs in precisely how what gets chosen to get adapted will be done on the big screen. Want the audience to be truly invested in Scott and Jean's relationship and bond on a deep level? Well that probably pushes any Scott and Emma stuff off the table. Wanna see the Rogue, Destiny and Nightcrawler story play out? That might mean not having Colossus and Magik's history from the comics get any play at all. There is gonna be limits and just because suddenly Marvel Studios is handling the X-Men the limits of movies, especially making good movies and not just pumping out garbage, doesn't go away.
We will see lots of great material and concepts but if people are expecting the Blue and Gold teams, and Beak and the Stepford Cuckoos as just a given... I think that's asking for too much and setting oneself up for disappointment.