World My own xmen movie - Need Help!

alright guys, some friends and I will be making our own xmen movie this fall. Im still working on the story. Basically we can do the effects for cyclops, gambit, collosus, night crawler, xaiver, magneto, storm, and toad. But we still havent gotten wolverines claws nor his healing powers down. If there is anyone who can help me figure out how to make these effects please let me know.

ps. im not sure if i can use pyro or ice man because they have complex effects as well.

 

Well my friend goes to columbia college which is the biggest film making school in Chicago. Financially, we all chip in the money, eveyone whos starring in the film that is. remember this is an idependant film.

Everything is recorded on digital camera and after we are done shooting for the day, the film goes directly to the computer where we add in all the effects and sound and everything else. The program we are using for the special effects is called Alem DV, however im pretty sure we'll need better software for xmen.

In the past year we have filmed a remake of back to the future, and we are currently working on part 2, and also we are working on ghostbusters. Then Batman will be filmed then My baby, The X-men. We are planning to start X-men around november. maybe film some bits of it before then. But are hopefully to have some fight scenes in the rain and the snow.

Basically the effect we have in back to the future and ghostbusters look great. to be honest i think they look better than they did in the original movies. These past movies are alot shorter and obviously the story isnt as good as the original. Which is why i have began writing xmen now because i want the story to be perfect and blow these other movies we've made completely away.

The main concern right now with xmen is wolverines blades, we can cut the scenes and make them appear very quickly but id do anything to have an effect like they did in the real movie. Gambits cards will look amazing, as will cyclops's blasts. Storms lightning will look great, and we shouldnt have a poblem at all with night crawler. pyro and ice mans are also going to be kind of tricky.

well anyways im just beginning to write the story now, so please give me any ideas you might have for a good movie, or even just a scene. thanks. and ill keep you updated

 

by the way, i cant figure out how to attach an image to this board, but if anyone can upload two pictures for me from back to the future you can get and idea on what the effects look like from that movie.

 

TNS ICEMAN: you can download a demo of the program at http://fxhome.com


Beastbone: thats actually a pretty good idea, im still working on the blades though. but I might just buy them for about a 100 dollars and do the animations on the computer because this way the blades would be right on the skin and I wouldnt have to hide them behind gloves. But im still looking at other ideas.

We will be filming the entire movie in Chicago and some of its suburbs. Today I was downtown Chicago all night, and I just kept seeing great places to have this scene or that scene. We will hopefully begin filming between November and December and the movie will hopefully be released by the end of spring. It will be put online for everyone to see.

Everything is still up for grabs but the for sure characters in the film will be, Magneto, Wolverine, Gambit, Storm, Nightcrawler, Mystique, Pyro, Cyclops, professorX, iceman, and im still just lookin through stuff online and comics to find other mutants who would be great for the film. So if anyone has anyone ideas for more people just let me know. and like i said any storylines or scenerios youd like to see in the film, because im still writing it. once again ill keep you updated.

 

thanks guys for the support. so far heres the character list

x-men:
Cyclops
Wolverine
Jean
Nightcrawler
Storm
Gambit
and smaller cameos by other characters

for the bad guys:
Magneto
Pyro
Havok
Mystique
im still working on others.

 

just a bumb!

 

alright I have big news.

The teaser for it will be filmed this week and released sometime next week. The teaser will revolve around magneto, and im not going to give anything else away but for it just being a teaser its gonna be real good.

oh yeah. im still working on the script so if anyone has anymore ideas please let me know.

 

im probly going to make a site for xmen. the other ones arent online though so unless i was to email the movie to you. i dont know any other way you could see it.

 

thanks for all the input guys. The teaser is very short but it was filmed yesterday. It really is going to get you guys excited.

Magneto is talking through out the entire teaser about mankind. While he is talking it is flashing back and back again to wolverine. Wolverine is being played by me. and sickboy trust me the sideburns and facial hair is a big deal. however for the teaser i was shaved, but its only because my face really isnt in the teaser and it is more focussing on the blades and the shadows.

AHA what happened was i was growing out the facial hair and i forgot we were filming the teaser and accidently shaved the morning i woke up.

I was wearing jeans and the gray tanktop like wolverine has in the second. Ill try to have some pics from it up this weekend, and hopefully have the teaser online for u guys next week sometime.

anyways, we did some voice captions, after it was all done, it was alot of fun. I am still writing the xmen script, i have been leaning toward the mutant plague storyline but i still need more info so guys please help. ill keep everyone updated.

oh yeah. thanks for all the help and support again.

 

alright guys, the teaser will be up within the next few days. I finally found the music we were lookin for. Does anyone know where I would be able to upload the trailer too?

Sickboy: yes ill keep updating you guys with the pictures of the people playing the different characters. Currently im workin on gambit and havoks costume. My friend chris is playing magneto is going to have to make his suit. and ill try to get some pics of me as soon as i can from the teaser with the claws out.

Im still workin on the plot but am close to a final decision, and am bout 90 percent sure I am going to use the legacy virus. However alot of the things will be different if i use this storyline. 1 Dr. McCoy will be the one to develop the virus against his will, he is being forced to by the governemnt. 2 havok and cyclops may be twins im still not sure on this one yet. and more small details. im still open to ideas though so guys please post ur stuff.