MCU X-Men

[Val_Zod]

First film

Cyclops
Storm
Jean
Nightcrawler
Wolverine
Colossus

Later films you can add characters, maybe even do Gold and Blue if that's possible. Rogue, Psylocke, Havok and Forge are just some off the top of my head as future members. Maybe even tackle the idea of team members leaving the team, and making it a big deal. Say Cyclops decided to leave, and you'd give Storm the leadership role to spice things up or something. I'd make guys like Angel, Iceman and Beast as old friends of Cyke and Jean who decided to lead ordinary lives upon graduating many years ago to appease the first class fans. Though, they could always join in later installments.

 

[DACrowe]

A little bit of irony...

That movie was produced by 20th Century Fox.

 

[DACrowe]

If I had to guess who they'll pull from:

 

[InfraggbleKrunk]

First film

Cyclops
Storm
Jean
Nightcrawler
Wolverine
Colossus

YES!!!! Best X-Men team of all time!!! Perfect for the first MCU X-Men movie.

 

[Silvermoth]

If I had to guess who they'll pull from:

Would jubilee still have the teen demographic though? Maybe in the 80s but not so much now.

They could probably keep the cast and add in x23 instead?

 

[Albright]

I hope MCU Magneto is old enough to be Wanda's father. After all it could still be possible. The Maximomoff twins only said, that their parents didn't survive the attack of Stark's bombs. This father could be some kind of not biological father, because Wanda's mother could've left Erik after the birth of the twins.

 

[Val_Zod]

YES!!!! Best X-Men team of all time!!! Perfect for the first MCU X-Men movie.

Yup. Claremont/Byrne team to me deserves the treatment of first MCU X-men, since it's them who put the X-men on the map.

 

[fan4stic]

My idea is pretty direct: The movie is would be about the revealing of mutants to the world. They've always existed, S.H.I.E.L.D. knew about them and so have the government heads like the president and such.

Mister Sinister is the villain. He wants to ignite the conflict between mutants and humans, so he releases a virus upon the world that effects mutants, which sets off their powers, exposing them against their will.

This leads to Charles Xavier who has been trying to nurture a peaceful transition for years for mutants to be embraced by society, to have to fight against the situation and prevent the exposure of his people, which brings him to blows with...

Magneto, a once former ally, who became embittered at society and sought to protect his people by any means necessary as he saw fit. He's committed many mutant crimes in secret over the years, like jailbreaks and attacks that could be against the interests of mutants in the future. The forced exposure brings him out of hiding to defend his people. In his mind, there's no backtracking from this, like Xavier wants, and with mutants exposed now, playing with kid gloves is no longer an option.

This is really Cyclops' movie in regards to how we follow the center story. He has to be a leader in a way he never has been before. The X-Men have always trained for exposure, but he's never had to do anything but go up against Magneto's c-list villains that he's thrown at them while they've worked in secret to stop him. This all hits home when he discovers his personal connection to Sinister.

Wolverine is either saved for a post credits scene or is minor character.

That's all I've got for now.

 

[Devarika Woulf]

My take for the first movie would your standard MCU action/comedy about the school and Xavier's children of mutants. Show the team starting out, the issues of being a new team and family, and mutants fitting into a normal world.

Professor X should be an American to differentiate him from the prior movies. The X-Men would be the original 5: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Iceman, Beast, and Angel. Iceman, being the young and funny type, would be central to drawing the audience into the nature of the school. Cyclops, though, would clearly be the leader, and the lead actor amongst the X-Men cast. The struggles of being a mutant but trying to fit in a human society would fall on his shoulders. The rest is your typical film, casting, and whoever they want to be the villain, etc. Save Wolverine for a teaser at the end, or just introduce him in a future movie.

Last thing is... I don't see them making Iceman gay. None the MCU films have had a gay character, and the reason being it would turn off the general audience. I know there are many gay people who watch these films, but they are a minority in the general scheme of things. It's the truth... Marvel isn't going to risk box office to appeal to a small amount of people. I grew up reading the comics; I never thought of him as being gay. That's a recent thing forced in. Putting it in the films would appeal to the LGBT community, but no one else. Thus, it makes no sense. Just have him like goils as we remember, and everything is easy breezy.

 

[Double B]

Yeah, well, he's canonically gay now and if you think they'll have him feature in the film and be heterosexual in this day and age, I have a river to sell you.

Visibility is important, whether they cater to the "minority" of viewers or not.

 

[007]

Not particually bothered by the xmen as a team but looking forward to some more decent wolverine outtings for sure.

 

[007]

My take for the first movie would your standard MCU action/comedy about the school and Xavier's children of mutants. Show the team starting out, the issues of being a new team and family, and mutants fitting into a normal world.

Professor X should be an American to differentiate him from the prior movies. The X-Men would be the original 5: Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Iceman, Beast, and Angel. Iceman, being the young and funny type, would be central to drawing the audience into the nature of the school. Cyclops, though, would clearly be the leader, and the lead actor amongst the X-Men cast. The struggles of being a mutant but trying to fit in a human society would fall on his shoulders. The rest is your typical film, casting, and whoever they want to be the villain, etc. Save Wolverine for a teaser at the end, or just introduce him in a future movie.

Last thing is... I don't see them making Iceman gay. None the MCU films have had a gay character, and the reason being it would turn off the general audience. I know there are many gay people who watch these films, but they are a minority in the general scheme of things. It's the truth... Marvel isn't going to risk box office to appeal to a small amount of people. I grew up reading the comics; I never thought of him as being gay. That's a recent thing forced in. Putting it in the films would appeal to the LGBT community, but no one else. Thus, it makes no sense. Just have him like goils as we remember, and everything is easy breezy.

Making him gay would be doing it for the sake of it.

 

[rebellion]

Not particually bothered by the xmen as a team but looking forward to some more decent wolverine outtings for sure.

oukaaaay, you are a part of a very small club then

 

[DrCosmic]

oukaaaay, you are a part of a very small club then

He's actually not. There's millions and millions of people for whom the Fox-Men ARE THE X-Men. They will be totally weirded out by Bobby being the same age as Scott and Jean, and a short Wolverine would cause them to absolutely lose their spittle. Wolverine IS the X-Men for a lot of people, even as far back as the 90s cartoon. For some people's exprience the ultimate outsider is the angry White guy that nobody understands and does whatever he wants, not the persecuted minority.

Fortunately they're "wrong" and developing the X-Men as a whole is a more impactful story which also happens to be what's best for Wolverine, but yeah, not a small group.

There's no way Disney uses Iceman and doesn't write him as a gay character. It's time Hollywood nips this China excuse in the bud.

There's a way they keep it entirely vague, like they did with Valkyrie. That's what's really scary about modern social movements, they're fueled by money. When the money stops, the movement stops.

Starting with a team of adults does not mean they won't have character development or history. The most iconic stories are during their early adult years, and back stories can be done through flashbacks. It will be weird seeing all the X-men as a decade younger than the rest of the MCU aside from Spider-man. It means characters like Xavier and Magneto are once again the adults and prominent decision makers. Sure, the first MCU film could be about Xavier training teenagers for combat (which is a weird vibe that the Fox movies and the comic books now avoid) with the gradual expansion of the mansion into an actual school, but it means anytime the MCU characters interact with the X-men they will be dealing with a bunch of teenagers. It sounds like we won't get to iconic X-men status until 2030 because Marvel was caught up adapting the least popular era of X-men comics. I just think the X-men have too much potential to bound them to such a limited moment in its history. They could start the movie as the first generation of students (the 7 or so listed as the mean team) graduates and the student body expands. The 90s animated series began in the thick of things and that worked perfectly (to an iconic extent).

Bro, 19-20 is early adult years, while 19 is also a teenager, that's what I'm talking about. Early adults, before they were teachers, while they were impressing the rest of the major Marvel heroes whose backstories were not 'just graduated from high school' like theirs was. When they were making decisions for themselves, as all college kids do. This is when they were the iconic X-Men in the big popular era of comics that current comics constantly refer back to. This is what the 90s cartoon was inspired by, not being teachers, but being students, young adults. That is the iconic X-Men.

No one is suggesting three movies starring the O5 but what I do suggest is at least one movie without the 2000s X-Men styled school. What problem, exactly, do you have with that, because none of your concerns seem to apply to it, if I understand correctly.

The problem with rushing the iconic era into the school era is that you can easily break the show don't tell rule. If you don't show the audience something, they won't care. Everything you think the audience should care about, you have to show them onscreen. If you start with graduation, you tell the audience that what they learned was unimportant, not worth showing. If the focus of the first film is building up the student body of the school, then we know that these characters are important as teachers primarily, and anything about them that doesn't relate to this is a diversion from the main focus of the film.

I really am not in the mood for another X-Men franchise where filmmakers treat the X-Men like cartoon characters with one line backstories to get to deep dives into their favorite characters. That's not how you do the X-Men justice. MCU X-Men would be better served with a trilogy that develops the 20+ essential X-Men with the New Mutants as kids, and then follows that with a trilogy that opens up the school to the Generation X's and New New Mutants and Academy X's and all the youngsters from modern comics as students.

 

[Boom]

My full X-Men roster:

Angel
Beast
Bishop
Colossus
Cyclops
Gambit
Iceman
Jubilee
Nightcrawler
Phoenix
Psylocke
Rogue
Shadowcat
Storm
Wolverine

 

[Double B]

In terms of the first movie?

Iceman (audience POV)
Cyclops
Jean
Storm
Colossus/Angel
Kitty
Rogue (but maybe have her start the movie on the villain side)

 

[kevork89]

For me it would be:

Cyclops
Jean Grey
Storm
Gambit
Rogue
Beast
Professor X

(Yes the animated series just minus Wolverine and Jubilee)

 

[psylockolussus]

My full X-Men roster:

Angel
Beast
Bishop
Colossus
Cyclops
Gambit
Iceman
Jubilee
Nightcrawler
Phoenix
Psylocke
Rogue
Shadowcat
Storm
Wolverine

That's a lot for the first film, but I wouldn't complain.

 

[Leo Zelinsky]

X-MEN: DoFP 700m
X-MEN: Apocalypse 600m

How much is MCU bump worth? 200m? 300m?


It'll definitely be highest grossing X-MEN team film right?

 

[psylockolussus]

Hopefully it would gross over a billion but I think Dark Phoenix will really hurt the X-Men next year.

 

[Boom]

That's a lot for the first film, but I wouldn't complain.

Well part of the appeal is that they could mix-and-match the X-Men roster anyway they'd like from film to film. I'd just like to see them pull from that list.

 

[psylockolussus]

Well part of the appeal is that they could mix-and-match the X-Men roster anyway they'd like from film to film. I'd just like to see them pull from that list.

That's Xciting!

 

[Albright]

I'm okay if the 1st rooster will just be 5-6 main characters and a few villains, like in Bryan Singers first X-Men movie.
Professor X
Jean
Cyclops
Storm
Beast
Magneto (villainous role)

Don't make it too soon too crowded - there's enough time to establish this franchise

 

[psylockolussus]

I would Xclude Magneto and feature a different villain.

 

[rebellion]

maybe we dont need to see an O5 movie... have their picture shown framed somewhere in the hallways.. acknowledge they were the first team and introduce storm, colossus and nightcrawler