Restart the Franchise at the beginning

[Jan Irisi]

I can't see them restarting the franchise at all.

I don't see them doing it either. There are all sorts of directions to veer off into now, with so many characters to play with. They can go anywhere now, but not restart.

 

[89123]

remake the x-men movies? no, just plain no. sorry you didn't like x-men 3, get over it.

 

[Frodo]

A prequel would be good imo but not a restart . They could show how Xavier met Magneto , the founding of the Xavier school , Maybe young a Mystique could serve the role that Rouge served in the first one. A trouble youth coming to terms with her powers .

She's angry and Erick sympathizes with that. She butts heads with Professor X . It could be part of the rift between Magneto's and Xavier's views. It's not in the comics but the films have strayed alittle from the comics anyway.

Didn't Xavier once have some great past romance? That could be good as well. If you make the story about how the two men became friends and how their idealogies eventually split them apart violently , that would be good IMO

They could even feature Jason from X2 along with Brian Cox .

IMO a more character driven prequel would be good. That's what I would do for the next film and the way X3 ended it would be fine to then go back and see how it all started .

 

[liverlips]

I'd like to see prequel.

I'd actually prefer that to a Magneto spinoff. Now that everyone has become attached to the characters, a history lesson would be in order. Maybe they could use the de-aging techniques on Cyclops, Jean, Storm, and Beast as they go up against Magneto for the first time.

 

[Sun_Down]

Go back to the earlier days when the X-men were formed use the original team only & do a Sentinels story.

X-men - The Beginning 5-25-08

So...you want "the earlier days", but you want Sentinels? So you want TAS?

I'm so sick of people comparing the movies to that damn animated series and acting like TAS is the be-all-end-all of the X-Men.

 

[Shadow Moses X]

So...you want "the earlier days", but you want Sentinels? So you want TAS?

I'm so sick of people comparing the movies to that damn animated series and acting like TAS is the be-all-end-all of the X-Men.

well the TAS is damn sure better then the Movies.

 

[XCharlieX]

If they do reboot the franchise and make it a comic style thats good, because then comic fans wouldnt be slamming great films of the present saga for some comic book and would have their own. I sure as hell would pass on viewing them though.

 

[BMM]

well the TAS is damn sure better then the Movies.

Well, it is a cartoon meant for kids and hardly has to deal with the same kinds of issues movies do.

The only problem I have with the animated series is when people attempt to use it in place of the source material in their reasoning for why something should be different in the movies . . . when in actuality, the cartoon takes numerous liberties with the comics . . . just as many in the movies in some cases. Haha. I blame the animated series for a lot of misinformation. It was a fun series, although it was better when I was a kid. I watched an episode a while ago . . . doesn't quite have the same effect as it used to . . . but it was effective in what it was meant to do.

 

[Shadow Moses X]

Well, it is a cartoon meant for kids and hardly has to deal with the same kinds of issues movies do.

The only problem I have with the animated series is when people attempt to use it in place of the source material in their reasoning for why something should be different in the movies . . . when in actuality, the cartoon takes numerous liberties with the comics . . . just as many in the movies in some cases. Haha. I blame the animated series for a lot of misinformation. It was a fun series, although it was better when I was a kid. I watched an episode a while ago . . . doesn't quite have the same effect as it used to . . . but it was effective in what it was meant to do.

I still watch quite a few episodes, theres really not a lot of good television these days like there use to be when X-men aired.. so TAS is still good for me.

 

[BMM]

I still watch quite a few episodes, theres really not a lot of good television these days like there use to be when X-men aired.. so TAS is still good for me.

Haha. I agree. From what I've seen, the majority of cartoons don't seem to be as good as they used to be.

 

[Sun_Down]

Well, it is a cartoon meant for kids and hardly has to deal with the same kinds of issues movies do.

The only problem I have with the animated series is when people attempt to use it in place of the source material in their reasoning for why something should be different in the movies . . . when in actuality, the cartoon takes numerous liberties with the comics . . . just as many in the movies in some cases. Haha. I blame the animated series for a lot of misinformation. It was a fun series, although it was better when I was a kid. I watched an episode a while ago . . . doesn't quite have the same effect as it used to . . . but it was effective in what it was meant to do.

Exactly. I swear, half of the complaints people have about these films come from comparisons to TAS and people honestly consider it "source material".

 

[DACrowe]

Well the animation series was written for kids and was vague and broad and decidely less violent. But I felt it communicated its message better than X3 and while not as violent and featured a smaller vocabulary to work from, it was a bit more mature in storytelling than X3 really ever was (compare Jean's arc).

And people complain the Animated Series caused MISINFORMATION? What do you think X3 will do for the next generation or two? People are going to go "What?....Cyclops and the Proffessor are alive....Jean chose Scott for real and married him...he was the one who killed her.....Logan really didn't become team leader and her lover.....Rogue isn't cured? Well....I prefer the movies."

I mean X3 is far less faithful and much more disrespectful to the source material than the animated series or the first two movies for that matter though.

 

[The Dark Defender]

The only way this franchise is ever going to be done justice on the big screen is to pull a Batman Begins and start from scratch.

Singer ****ed it up so bad from the start that he not only destroyed the two he worked on, but damaged any future sequels by his horrid excuse for characterization. Ratner did as good of a job of cleaning up Singer's mess as he could under the circumstances, but it shouldn't have come to that.
X3 is the first decent X movie, but it's nowhere near as good as an X-Men film could and should be, and a big part of that is the various problems left over from Singer's trainwrecks.

 

[The Dark Defender]

I mean X3 is far less faithful and much more disrespectful to the source material than the animated series or the first two movies for that matter though.

It'd be almost impossible to be lest faithful than the first two movies, since they were butchered by someone with almost no familiarity with the source material going in(and it showed), and had a little bit more by the time he was done; not to mention he has as little knowledge of competent filmmaking as he did the source material.

 

[chaseter]

I'd prefer a good sequel with a nice script that combines the quality of story from X2 with the action from X3....

With Sinister as the main villain. After 3 movies I'd like to move on.

Agreed! Maybe Ratner can work out a few kinks and get the time he needs to make a GREAT movie. We need Sinister and Gambit.