Sequels Reboot the X-Men movies.

[ShadowBoxing]

My take so far.

X-Men: Children of the Atom

Ext. Alaska. Night

A private plane silently passes in the night. Over trees and valleys, it’s propellers can be heard from a distance.

The CAMERA follows from underneath as it passes. Suddenly a bolt of raw, red, energy rips through the cabin, obliterating it. It begins to crash. A single parachute can be seen being jettisoned from the side door.

Int. Alaskan Wilderness.

A boy lies face down in the snow, trace amounts of blood pooling in around his head in the snow. No sound, just silence. Then...

(V.O.) Radio - Woman
Hello this is Ranger station Alpha do you copy. Over.

(V.O.) Radio - Man
Copy Alpha, what’s your situation. Over.

(V.O.) Radio - Woman
We have a plane down thirty miles due west of Anchorage. Two possible survivors, please send search and rescue. Over.

The screen fades to black.

Ext. Hospital - Anchorage, Alaska. Night

A small ambulance pulls up to the front of the Hospital, several orderlies come outside and move to the back, opening the doors. Out comes the body of a young child - Scott Summers - presumably only twelve or thirteen years of age.

Int. Hospital - Examination Room.

A Doctor lays out a series of readings before two scientists seated in front of him. He has a look of disbelief on his face. The pages all contain EEG readings. The top of the page reads “Scott Summers”.

Dr. Claremont
What are these, Millar.

Dr. Millar
Their Scott’s EEG readings, taken while he was in comatose. I don’t know what to make of them, I mean I do...I just
(pause)
Never thought they existed.

Dr. Bryne
What’re you saying doctor...

Dr. Millar
What I’m saying, Bryne, is that we’ve stumbled upon the next stage in human evolution here; homo superioris.

Dr. Claremont
I’ve heard of this...this mutant phenomenon. It’s rare, but I’ve heard stories, some dating back centuries.

Dr. Millar
Well we can’t deal with him here, we just don’t have the facilities, or the know how.
We’re going to have to transfer him, any ideas?

Bryne picks up the papers and examines them closely

Dr. Bryne
Yeah, that Dr. Essex guy, doesn’t he deal with the paranormal and strange...
...He runs that orphanage for the gifted, or whatever, out in Nevada.

Dr. Claremont
That guy gives me the creeps.

Dr. Millar
Maybe, but he’s our best option.

CUT TO.

Int. Hospital Room - Scott Summers’ quarters

A man, clearly in his fifties or sixties, despite having the body and stature of a twenty year old, walks in with Millar and Claremont. This man is Dr. Nathaniel Essex. He walks slowly over to the bed, examining the boy on the table. He goes to remove a pair of bandages from his eyes.

Dr. Claremont
Don’t do that...

Nathaniel Essex averts his eyes upwards to a small hole, about the size of a soccer ball, that has been knocked through the ceiling.

Nathaniel Essex
I see. He will do splendidly.

CUT TO.

Ext. Hospital Front Entrance. Day

The automatic doors outside lead to a snow covered front driveway. The doors slide open. Nathaniel Essex wheels a heavily sedated Scott Summers out the into the cold. As he leaves he swings on a very heavy, thick purple colored jacket over his blue suit and red tie. He drapes his scarf over Scott Summers’ shoulders.

FADE OUT.

FADE IN.

Int. White House - Oval Office. Day

The President James McMann sits in his chair. Laughing and joking with a man named Bolivar Trask, who is sitting across from him in a comfy chair. He is smoking a cigar, and sipping some on some red wine.

Trask
You should’ve seen the look on you’re face...priceless.

President McMann
No, my wife’s face...that was priceless.

Interrupting their laughter is a page from the phone.

(V.O.) Secretary
Mr. President, a Charles Xavier is here.

President McMann
Oh yes, send him in.

The door is opened and a white haired young man wheels in Professor Xavier. Xavier is wheeled in adjacent to Trask, who sits behind him giving a faint look of recognition.

Bolivar Trask
Are you the geneticist who wrote “Children of the Atom”

The young man looks off into the distance as if he is staring in to space.

Charles Xavier (in Pietro’s head)
Pietro, if you would excuse us.

Pietro exits the room silently, the inaudible command heard by no one else but him.

Charles Xavier (speaking - Trask)
Yes, I wrote started writing it nearly a decade ago.
It’s the culmination of years of research.

Bolivar Trask
I’d love to see some of it.

Charles Xavier
I’m afraid my methods are exclusively my own.

Bolivar Trask almost smiles, as if the two are kindred spirits. He puts out his cigar in the ashtray.

President McMann
Charles, this is Trask, he’s an old golf buddy of mine, and ironically you two share some similar interests...

Bolivar Trask
(bluntly)
Mutants.
Studied them my whole life.

Bolivar Trask gets up from his chair, almost excited by his own words. He grabs a file folder and hands it to the wheelchair bound Professor Xavier. The Professor begins to flip through.

Bolivar Trask
I recently got a grant from Langtech.
You know, the advanced technologies firm.
We’re calling it “Project Wideawake”. It’s a program that uses military grade weaponry with mutant tracking technology.

Professor Xavier winces.

Charles Xavier
I don’t know about this

President McMann
Oh c’mon Professor, you’re the one whose always warning us about potential “evil” mutants.
(beat - to Trask)
Bolivar aims to solve that problem.

Bolivar Trask
These mutants are powerful Charles. We just found a boy in Alaska who can destroy tanks with his eyes.

President McMann
..and Canada is already using some as weapons. I side with Trask.

Charles Xavier
When I wanted to solve the mutant dilemma I wanted to solve it with education, not force.

Bolivar Trask puts his hand on Charles’ shoulder. Despite his attempts to be consoling and nice, he comes off condescending.

Bolivar Trask
Don’t worry Professor. You can still do your research.
Let us save the world.

Charles bows his head in defeat, he wheels himself for the door. Pietro appears at the doorway as a person on the other side opens it.

Charles Xavier
You have an excellent day, gentlemen.

Bolivar Trask and President McMann stare smugly at him as he leaves.

CUT TO

Int. White House Hallway

Pietro wheels Professor Xavier down the hallway towards the elevator. As they walk Pietro asks Professor about the meeting.

Pietro
...Those men know not what they do, Professor.

Charles Xavier
No, I suppose not.
We will have to tell your father, Erik.

Pietro
He won’t like it.

Pietro wheels him into the elevator. The doors begin to close.

Charles Xavier
He never does.

The doors close completely.

FADE OUT.

 

[returntovoid]

Here's my idea on how to reboot the X-Men movies.

Story:

Magneto is planning to use the Cape Citadel missiles to attack Germany because he was a victim of the Holocaust and he wants revenge from the Germans. The original X-Men are training in the Danger Room session but it gets interrupted by Xavier's mental call to the War Room. He then tells them that they will face their most dangerous foe named Magneto, he tells them the time when they used to be friends and how Magneto became angry and vengeful. Juggernaut is kept in a high security cell, and then the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants consisting of Sabretooth, Mastermind, Toad, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch attack the security guards. Sabretooth frees Juggernaut from his cell. Xavier is taking the X-Men to Cape Citadel in the jet. The X-Men arrive and then the Brotherhood ambushes them. While at the mansion Xavier sitting in his chair and brooding and then cerebro registers the mutant named Logan in Alberta, Canada and then Xavier leaves to track Logan down in Canada. Xavier arrives at a bar where Logan is sitting and he tells Logan that his powers are needed for the good of mankind. Logan refuses at first stating that he works for the government. Xavier tells him that the government might have been responsible for what he has become and that he might help Logan learn more about his past. Logan then accepts stating that he is tired of being used by government as a weapon to kill people that they want killed.Things at Cape Citadel don't go so well and the X-Men are struggling in the battle against the Brotherhood and then Xavier loses mental contact with Jean Grey. Xavier then realizes that the X-Men are in some sort of danger and then he sends Logan to the Citadel. While at the Citadel Dozens of Soldiers arrive with their tanks and weapons and Things start to get really intense at the Citadel. Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch see Magneto killing Soldiers without any remorse and they lose their faith in Magneto. Logan arrives at the Citadel and he gets into a Berserker Rage when he sees Sabretooth. A brutal battle rages on with both mutual enemies but Logan manages to win the fight. Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch betray Magneto by helping Logan, Cyclops, Jean, Iceman, Angel and Beast defeat the other members of the Brotherhood. An angry and vengeful Magneto launches the missiles. The X-Men one by one stop the missiles but then Magneto manages to escape. Xavier arrives in the jet and the X-Men get inside it. While Magneto and Juggernaut arrive at the mansion. Then the jet arrives, Magneto magnetically makes the jet crash. Juggernaut and Magneto ambush the X-Men to a battle. Xavier gets shocked to see his step-brother free from the government high security cell. Juggernaut does a lot of damage to the mansion and battle gets really intense. Later Xavier tells Logan to loosen Juggernauts helmet screws, the screw do get but Juggernaut throws Logan around as if he were nothing. Angel manages to take Juggernauts helmet off and then Xavier psychic attacks Juggernauts brain. Then the X-Men manage to defeat Magneto. The next morning Beast, Iceman and Angel tell Xavier that they want to move on with normal lives and that he has taught them how to control their powers, but now they want leave the X-Men. Senator Kelly and Bolivar Trask are having a meeting; Trask presents Senator Kelly with the Sentinels in the meeting as the only salvation to stop the ever growing mutant issue and Trask fears that the mutants will take over the human race.

 

[Rishi]

imo just adapt the first arc of ultimate x-men

x-men vs sentinals vs magneto with wolverine having the same assassin role

 

[ShadowBoxing]

FADE IN.

Int. Xavier Mansion - Living Room. Day

An elderly man white hair sits examining the television with a furrowed brow. He sips on a cup of coffee. He is old, but his body has not withered. He is still quite big for a man of his apparent age.

The Television blares in the background.

Senator Kelly
Dr. Richards, I don’t presume to tell you how to view this matter but my campaign is firmly set against allowing mutants to roam unchecked throughout our population.

Dr. Richards
(interrupting)
What about my family...what if you were to deem us a threat.

Senator Kelly
You hardly qualify...

Dr. Richards
No I want to know Senator...

Xavier enters the room from behind, Erik turns off the television and the voices from the background fade. Xavier wheels himself over next to Erik.

Erik Lenshirr
It’s the same story, every channel

Charles Xavier
I know Erik, but we must be patient, not do anything to irrational.

Erik Lenshirr
Like registering every mutant so they can be hunted down like dogs?

Charles Xavier
I know you’ve seen men like this before, but this time it will be different. We have the power to change things.

Erik Lenshirr
Yes we do, old friend, and I intend to use that power to make things right.
(Pause)
I’m leaving.

Charles Xavier
(shocked)
What?

Erik Lenshirr
You can’t protect me, or my children, not here.
(Pause)
This world has made it’s choice about us...and I will not sit by and let that come to pass.

Charles Xavier picks up the morning paper. The headline reads “Mutant Registation passes in Senate vote”.

Charles Xavier
Erik, you can’t leave like this. Pietro and Wanda still have so much to learn.
I can’t let you go...

Erik Lenshirr
I know you have the ability to change my mind, Charles. So I would appreciate it if you let me make my own decisions.

Erik Lenshirr leaves silently.

FADE OUT.

FADE IN.

Ext. Xavier Mansion - Front Gate. Day

A Taxi waits in front. Pietro, Erik and Wanda (a red haired young woman) load up with trunk with suitcases, and the three enter the vehicle.

Xavier watches from the stoop wondering exactly how to stop them, but he says nothing.

The car drives away. The CAMERA follows as it leaves the gate. Pietro and Wanda both turn and look sullenly at Xavier as it pulls out the gate.

CUT TO.

Ext. Urban Neighborhood. Day.

A young woman, perhaps only fourteen, plays near the sidewalk with another child of her age. They kick a soccer ball back and forth to each other, both wearing athletic school uniforms.

The redheaded girl kicks hard, it bounces off her friends foot.

CAMERA ON the ball as it goes between to parked cars out onto the street.

Soccer Girl
I got it Jean!

The Soccer Girl scoots between the two cars.

POV. SOCCER GIRL. Turns her head to see a car coming straight for her.

It makes CONTACT. QUICK SLAM TO BLACK

CUT TO. CLOSE UP of Jean who gasps.

Jean runs towards the parked cars, between them and out on the street where the girl lays, bleeding. The car has swerved, hitting two parked cars on the other side of the street.

Confusion. Panic. A small crowd of maybe two or so gather around the scene. The driver is getting out of his car, holding his head, disoriented.

Jean kneels down next to her friend.

CUT TO. FRONT DOOR of house. Two parents open the door, John and Elaine, and look outside. They are shocked.

CUT TO. Jean kneeling next to her friend.

Her friend isn’t speaking she is unconscious. Suddenly her voice comes through to Jean, clear as a bell, but her lips aren’t moving. They are psychically linked. The audible sound of her heartbeat plays over the voice.

Soccer Girl (V.O.)
Jean,it’s alright...it’s gonna be all....

The voice trails of into nothingness. No one else can hear it but Jean. The girl has died while in Jean’s own mind.

Jean drops the girl and grabs her head in pain. She screams, and screams, and screams.

SLAM TO BLACK.

DOORBELL RINGS

Int. Grey’s House - Door. Day

The father and mother open the door. On the other side is Charles Xavier, and a cab is waiting outside behind him. He is there unaided. Charles Xavier examines both the parents.

He is obviously not someone they expected.

John Grey
Can I help you?

Charles Xavier wheels inside the residence. The Grey’s make little attempt to stop him. He does not acknowledge them at first, but only at first.

Charles stops in the living room.

Charles Xavier
You are Jean’s parents, are you not?

John Grey
Yes...

John looks at his wife, Elaine. She gives no response. Charles turns and faces them

Charles Xavier
Elaine. John. I am Charles Xavier.
(Pause)
I am a specialist from upstate New York.

John sighs with relief.

John Grey
The doctors looked her over, but she’s been catatonic ever since the accident.

Elaine
We don’t know what to do.

Charles Xavier picks a photo of Jean from off a tabletop and looks it over. It’s of her wearing a ballerina outfit, taken when she was much younger.

Charles Xavier
Please take me to see her.

CUT TO.

Int. Jean Grey’s Room.

Charles wheels in with John’s help. The two parents look on in concern.

CLOSE UP of Jean’s face reveal her eyes open, but no one is in the driver’s seat. She simply is not home, and with barely any reaction besides slight, rhythmic breathing.

Charles Xavier puts his hand on her head, and touches his temple with the other.

John Grey
What are you...?

Charles Xavier
I require the utmost concentration. Please remove yourselves.

John and Elaine seem taken aback by his curtness with them, but they leave the room as he requests.

The CAMERA slowly pans in.

FADE OUT.

CUT TO.

Int. Grey House - Living Room

The mother and father sit on the coach across from Xavier. Xavier is holding a cup of coffee. John is looking through a brochure of the “Xavier Institute”.

Charles Xavier
In her advanced state, I can’t treat her here.

John Grey
I understand...but what is this place, the “School for Gifted Youngsters”.

Charles Xavier
My father, Brian, owned and ran a school, that was willed to me.
...it was for children who had special needs, much like your daughter has now.
(Pause)
He helped me, my step brother, and friends of mine with our gifts. I can help your daughter with hers.

John looks over the packet and shacks his head.

John Grey
I’ve been a doctor for years...
...I’ve never heard of this place.

Charles Xavier
I don’t suspect you have. We like to remain anonymous. Your daughter is going to be faced with challenges you probably won’t understand, and it is best she deal with them in a place where the world cannot hurt her.

Elaine Grey
Why would anyone want to hurt Jeanie.

Charles Xavier
Mrs. Grey, the world fears what it does not understand.

The CAMERA pans back towards the parents, who seem deeply invested in this decision they are about the make.

Charles Xavier readjusts himself in his wheelchair, and looks as if he is deep in thought.

CUT TO.

Ext. Grey House. Street. Day

Xavier and an EMS worker are seen wheeling the unconscious Jean Grey into the back of a small medical vehicle. The two parents, John and Elaine, watching from the doorstep as the vehicle prepares to drive off.

The CAMERA follows behind the vehicle as it drives away.

QUICK CUT to John and Elaine standing on their front stoop.

FADE OUT.

FADE IN.

Ext. DIAMOND Construction site. Dusk.

Somewhere out west, presumably in Nevada or maybe Arizona judging by the surroundings, we see a busy construction of a new building of some kind, only the frame in place. The place is crowded with workers of every kind. The sign out front reads “Diamond Construction Company”.

Int. Diamond Construction site. Dusk.

CAMERA ON SCOTT SUMMERS. Scott is pushing a wheelbarrow full of materials. Scott is muscular, but in a wirey way, and obviously not that strong. He’s tall and lanky, and struggles with his work, he’s been working long hours. He wears thick, red, sunglasses, despite the little light left.

He continues pushing, but slowly, as he moves from one end to the other. He starts to loss his balance a little, struggles with the load, and tips the barrow on the ground.

In the background a small group of workers visibly snicker.

Scott Summers is not well liked around here.

Int. Diamond Construction. Break area. Night.

The sun is down completely. The CAMERA is on Scott Summers yet again, who eats a small sandwich bought off the lunch truck. He is beat. It’s totally dark out, and yet he still wears those glasses, everyone stares. Everyone always stares.

CAMERA ON a group of large men, the one’s who snickered at his performance earlier, coming towards him. All of them are big, mean looking construction types.

Large Worker 1
Hey kid.

Scott Summers gives no response.

Large Worker 1
I’m talkin’ to you

Scott Summers puts down his sandwich and tries to walk past them, but one of them shoves him back in the chair.

Large Worker 2
What do you think you’re doin’

Scott Summer
(mubbling)
Just eatin’

Large Worker 3
You aren’t welcome here freak.

Large Worker 1
Yeah, we heard about you.
(Pause)
Take ‘em off

Scott Summers touches his glasses as if to guard them.

Large Worker 1
Was tha matter, it’s too light out here for ya’? Take ‘em off.

Scott Summers
Dr. Essex told me not to.

The Large Worker 1 picks up Scott Summers and pulls him off the ground, until they are nose to nose. Scott is quite tall, but this guy is much, much bigger.

Large Worker 1
Well I don’t know no Mr. Ethics.

The Large Worker throws Scott Summers down against the ground. His glasses fall off his face.

His eyes open

Flash! A beam of solid red energy erupts from them right at the group of workers. They fly back, unable to resist the mighty force of the blast.

Scott averts his eyes upward, on reflex. He didn’t mean to hurt them.

CAMERA ON I-beams dangling from a construction crane. Scott hits the line supporting it with his blast. The I-beams fall towards the group.

CAMERA ON POV of a group of workers below, looking up at the tumbling mass of beams. Just them the blast rips through overhead, knocking the beams away from the crowd.

CLOSE UP OF Scott Summers getting up. He is holding his eyes shut, but small rays of red blasts seep through the seams of his fingers.

CUT TO.

Ext. Construction site. Night

CAMERA AHEAD of Scott Summers, moving away from an angry mob. He runs, not knowing where he is going.

He turns a corner and crash, hits a trash can. He is being hunted though, he cannot let that slow him down.

Charles Xavier (V.O.)
Run Scott, run to the right.

Scott Summers, doesn’t question the voice, or where it came from, he just does. He runs towards the right.

Ext. Small town street. Night

He runs down the street, the mob still behind him. Unable to really gain much headway. But then...

The sound of a train.

Scott keeps running.

Charles Xavier (V.O.)
Turn to your left!

Scott turns to his left, running down an alleyway in this small town. He comes to the end. The Train is right in front of him, roaring past.

CLOSE UP of Scott Summers, his hands covering his eyes, confused and overwhelmed by the roar of the passing train.

Charles Xavier (V.O.)
Jump Scott!

Scott Summers jumps, and just in time. His hand grabs and railing and he hoists himself into an open cabin.

Int. Train Car. Cow Transport. Night.

Scott falls to his knees in the middle of the car. He is surrounded by cows.

Scott Summers
Hello, is anyone there?

One of the cows “moos” loudly.

FADE TO BLACK.

 

[AlyssaX]

pretty cool reboot so far , ShadowBoxing