The Wolverine Should this be the end for Hugh? reboot finally?

If they have to end the character, have him die in by Magneto ripping out his adamantium - which would complement the possible loss of his healing arc in TW-or by sentinel beam, which happened in the comic. There's no need to reboot the series; it's finally back on its feet again, and the last thing the franchise needs is losing momentum. Contrary to belief on the internet, people tire of remakes and reboots easily. And no, rebooting is not demonstrative of creativity, but laziness.

 

If Days of Future Past turned out to be a big success. People would be asking more X-Men films and rebooting this series wouldn't be a good idea.

 

Agreed.

 

A reboot would be very challenging for FOX because they have to find new actors, they will probably find a new director too (I don't think Bryan Singer is ready for a reboot) and basically, they are starting from scratch! And remember, the producers said it was harder for them to do X-Men 1 than X-Men 2 because X-Men 1 was the first one while X2 was a continuation and they didn't start from scratch.

If they just continue with X-Men 5! They don't have to hire a whole new cast, they don't have to retell the world of the X-Men to the audience again and the general audience wouldn't have to adjust with the actors portraying Wolverine, Storm, Cyclops, etc...

 

Agreed! At this point, they have reached an awesome place, in terms of storytelling: the arrival and departure of the cure leaves the characters in a very interesting social and political landscape.

 

Origins: Wolverine was bad?

not from where I'm standing. Still my favourite X-men film.

 

Wait...so Hugh hinting that this might be the last solo film is really him telling us The Wolverine isn't good?

Oh, bhayes...

 

while i dont think it's needed and i dont think it'll happen unless DOFP bombs, which I seriously doubt will happen, I dont get how rebooting X-Men is very challenging or any harder than rebooting any other series.

 

It's not. This franchise is mapped out so bad even the hardcore fans don't know what's in continuity or not. A clean slate would be the best thing for the franchise. Even if the OT actors stay they are still wiping their slate/fixing ****, which is more confusing/difficult to pull off then just introducing a whole new crew and having a fresh start.

 

Business-wise, its not a good idea to reboot this series especially the interest for X-Men movies are starting to rise up again. Its also easier to just make a sequel from an established franchise than to start from scratch.

Of course its easy for fan-boys to suggest that a reboot should happen because they want things to be more similar to the comic-books, but seriously, if you are a producer of this series and you still have most of the cast/crew willing to return and the general audience wants to see more films. You are gonna think twice about doing a reboot.

 

i think there is some mis-communication. Are you saying it's difficult to reboot now or reboot down the road once the reception for the films have wined down/the cast and everyone is ready to move on.

I dont think it's difficult either way, I just dont think it would be smart to do it now especially if The Wolverine and DOFP are successes

 

LOL! Seriously you want the third First Class film as the last X-Men film before the reboot. Again this is a perfect example of fan-boy fantasies. They want a reboot but they want to see a third First Class film first which is obviously is not gonna make more money than the most successful X-Men to date then they will criticize the films that featured the original cast on how they didn't earn the same amount of money that the Dark Knight/Avengers earned at the box-office.

 

This.

 

I think some of these people will find an excuse on why FOX shouldn't move forward with the original cast after DOFP is released. And everytime I bring up the Fast/Furious comparison, they can't say anything about it because they can't deny how the comeback of the original cast of FF helped the stalling movie series.

And they could definitely do something new with the altered present. Introduce new villains, new characters, give the other characters more development and story, give the films a bigger scope. Like seriously there's hundreds of storylines that they could adapt into film.

 

Uhm, it was.

 

But it's kind of a minor issue that most of the main X-Men are dead isn't it?

Oh ok, can't argue with that. Your compelling arguments have convinced me.

 

Excluding Phoenix, most of the "dead" X-Men have the foundations of their return established in X3, or will probably be corrected in DOFP.

 

Its only Jean and Cyclops.

They could resurrect them easily if they want to.

 

What about Professor? And surely resurrecting Jean would be a bit silly.

I can see it with Cyclops though, technically we never saw him die.

 

The empty body subplot covers Professor X's return. As for Phoenix, it should not be too difficult an exercise in screenwriting to cover, considering how multi-faceted the Phoenix force is in the comics.

 

They are explaining in DOFP why Professor X is back. And even if they don't bring back Cyclops and Jean Grey, they would probably include new members to the team like they did in the previous movies. In DOFP, it looks Warpath, Bishop and Blink might be joining the modern-day X-Men. And even if they don't include new members to the team, they could just focus on Wolverine, Storm, Rogue, Colossus, Shadowcat and Iceman as an individual and a team.

There's seriously hundreds of possibilities by moving forward to the present time with the modern-day X-Men.

 

LOL.I don't know why that film gets ripped as much as it does.But a lot of films I enjoy (X3,S-M 3,IM 2,etc) seem to get hated on,so I'm used to it.t:

 

I agree with this. Although there's a few issues, the current series has nothing major that prevents them from presenting more stories so I don't see a need for a reboot yet. Some of the OT cast's ages could present an issue down the line but more focus could be placed on new, younger team members.