Nave,
The most inconsistent is the opening of X3. I've stated it before but the timeline is all off with that opening scene between Charles and Erik.
And that's more apparent with the release of the trailer and showing Erik in full Magneto gear at the end of the trailer.
Unless the film jumps forward 20 years, the opening scene to X3 doesn't work with this film at all.
I remember that, but I can't recall if they captioned that scene (with something like '15 years ago' or such). Even if they did, it's still murky because a) the events in the first X-Men film are said to be 'in the not too distant future'. X3 also had that weird error in grammar (in X3, they wrote 'in the not
to distant future), so I'm not going to rely on captions for continuity.
I think that the scene at the Grey house can be reconciled rather easily. Charles and Erik are simply shown to be 'younger', age isn't specified. All we need to do is show that Charles became bald sometime prior to his fallout with Magneto. The Grey recruitment could occur at any, unseen, point during the span of the new movie. Just my thought. Am I missing anything?
I don't see them splitting in the 60's, reconciling in the 80's, the splitting again right before we get to the first X-Men film.
That makes this film completely irrelevant if they do that. That's the whole point of making this film; seeing how the relationship began and see how it ultimately failed...how two factions in the mutant community began.
Yes, definitely, a reconciliation in the 80s would be irksome to the entire narrative. Lets keep things simple!
If there is a sequel, it's almost got to be a given that we'll see Charles trying to get his school up and running and the challenges in doing that. It is there where we'll probably meet Jean, Storm, and Scott.
I could see that. Though this is out of context, but I really hope that a story surrounding the 'The Original X-Men', whenever it is made, gets a different director and cast of actors. It would make it a whole lot more interesting if it's that, instead of being simply a sequel to the prequel. I suppose hype surrounding
The Wolverine led me to think this way.