Silvermoth said:
No. What I mean is everyone wants a great director who loves the X-men comic books but talk is cheap. Does anyone actually know a director who fulfil this criteria.
The Wachowski brothers are a good idea but I highly doubt that because they put robots in their matrix film, that automatically makes them an X-fan. However they did refer to the final battle in The Matrix: Path of Neo "as serious Hulk vs Galactus fun" so maybe they are marvelites and would be interested in a truer to form X-men film. After seeing V for Vendetta, they're certainly my pick as long as they don't go over the top with special effects
if these are the demands you are making, then you can't complain if joss (or josh) wheldon is the next guy in line, i mean, he freaking writes the comics for them
i am personally a fan of wheldons media, though i haven't read much of his comics,firefly and serenity are two of the best sci-fi productions this mellenium and i would be game for it
but seriously though, they don't have to be an xmen brain wizard, i garuntee Raimi didn't know everything about spiderman when he first started the project, but obviously if you are to do the movie right, just like making a movie in to a book (closed circut to ron howard) you probobly should read the book and if you don't do it right, alot of people are going to be pissed at you
James Cameron, get his but back on board, he wanted it in the early 90's but the budget was too big, lets give him the budget, forget these 3 where ever made, and do it right
but basically, you need someone who is enthusiastic about doing it right both ways, Bryan singer was not interested in making xmen movies, he was interested in making movies that he could show off what he could do, that he could make a comic book movie without any actual comic bookness to it, and he could get praise for making such a deep comic book movie, he honestly can care less weather the name is xmen superman hellboy or the toxic avenger he is doing it his own way, and that way has absolutley nothing to do with the source material
honestly if uwe boll had an enthusiastic approach towards making the movies, and he was going to keep it as xmen as possible, and he really cared about the little things that singer didn't, i wouldn't be thrilled, but i would say, here is a guy who wants to do it right, lets give him a shot
but its not just the director, the producers and writers and actors even all go into shaping these movies, Wolverine didn't have to be such a caring prick, and more of the rouge han solo if Hugh would have been like, "i don't think wolverine should act like this, he doesn't care about anyone but himself, and he is a ruthless bastard, not the leader of the xmen" maybe the movie would have been different
who are the directors in half the jerry brukhimer movies? the answer is probobly michael bay, but after that no one really knows, who did national treasure? top gun? con air? you will recognize all their names but you probobly don't know off the top of your head
the reason i said that ^ example is because, everything has to go right to make a movie a success, OR someone has to take the initiative, like Bruckhiemer does, or like Nolan does in BB
