The Official DANGER ROOM Thread

[X-Maniac]

We need the Danger Room to explain why some mutants finally get to be what we have expected --- Storm finally flying etc. After the events of X1 and X2, Xavier will have seen the need for combat training to hone the X-Men's powers. Then we can justifiably see Storm flying and not easily getting kicked to crap (as she was by Toad), Rogue being confident and not continually bursting into tears, and maybe even Iceman icing up! Go Danger Room!

 

[Retroman]

DANGER ROOM - COMICS BIO

The main training center for the X-Men, located three levels down in their basement. The original Danger Room had simple and complex mechanical obstacles and tests that were used by the team to hone their powers. After meeting the Shi'ar and helping Lilandra to regain her throne (the first time), the Danger Room was refitted with advanced Shi'ar technology, which allows it to create almost any scenario and setting imaginable. It can even create simalcrums of people, as well as smells and sounds. A combination of advanced animatronics and forcefields gives the holograms a realistic feel, and allows the X-Men to prepare for almost any eventuality. During Operation: Zero Tolerance the Danger Room was picked clean, so it was not in use for a while. However, when Professor X returned the Danger Room was refurbished and is operational again.

X-Men training in the Danger Room in the comics.


Sources: http://www.mutanthigh.com/tech/dangerroom.html
http://p200.ezboard.com/fxmendarkevolutionsrpgfrm78
http://therealx-men.tripod.com/thewarroom.htm

 

[Retroman]

X-MEN(2000) DANGER ROOM - Conceptual Art

X2 (2003) DANGER ROOM - Conceptual Art

X2(2003) DANGER ROOM - Storyboards

X2(2003) DANGER ROOM - Animatics

Source: Countingdown.com, X2 DVD and The Art Of X2.

 

[Retroman]

X2(2003) DANGER ROOM - Set Construction in 2002

Images courtesy of the X2 DVD

 

[Retroman]

X2(2003) Deleted Scene - Wolverine wonders around and finds the Danger Room

Source: http://www.wolverineandrogue.com/x2media/x2screencaps.php

NOTE: Scene was replaced with a chat with Bobby.


The X2 DANGER ROOM Trailer (Save As): http://www.cinemovies.fr/medias/ba/x2_teaser_m.mov

 

[Retroman]

THE DANGER ROOM QOUTES


X-MEN(2000) Related

X-Men Franchise Producer Lauren Shuler-Donner talks to Chud - June, 2001

S.J.R.: What about the rumor that there's going to be a Danger Room sequence in this?

Lauren: We're going to fight for a Danger Room sequence. We felt robbed last time.

Source: http://www.chud.com/news/june01/june13saturn2.php3



X-Men Franchise Producer Lauren Shuler-Donner talks to IGN - June 15, 2001

Smilin' Jack Ruby soldiered on, asking Shuler Donner what new characters and settings X-Fans might expect in the sequel. "There will be Sentinels. ... Beast, probably. We love Beast. I'd like to see him ... We're going to fight for a Danger Room sequence. We felt robbed last time." (Due to the first X-Men's relatively small budget, the original script's planned Danger Room scene had to be scrapped.) So when will the cast and crew reunite in Toronto to film X-Men 2? "We'll probably end up shooting in March. That'll give us enough time to prep it and then we'll have enough time to get it out by the end of the year."

Source: http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/300/300581p1.html



X-Men & X2 Producer and Co-Writer Tom DeSanto talks to Countingdown - September 25, 2003

"Wolverine is arrogant and doesn't want to put on a costume, so when the flamethrower comes up for Cyclops, who's smarter than Wolverine, he's just nailing the room, he's just acing it. And poor Logan, first the battering ram comes out and his shoe flies off, then the flamethrower, and his shirt's on fire...He's trying to put it out and take his shirt off, and then this guillatine comes out, and it just became this whole sequence which explained the costumes. So the Danger Room shuts down, and Logan's in there, his hair is half-singed, he's just in tatters."

Source: http://www.countingdown.com/movies/2756437?item_id=3214677


X2 (2003) and X3 Related
X-Men & X2 Director Bryan Singer talks to Countingdown.com - January 7, 2002

“If I had a dollar for every rumor...I could have a danger room,”

Source: http://www.countingdown.com/movies/1394/movieinfo/production?item_id=439789



X2 Composer/Editor John Ottman talks on his official site - June 2002

I arrived on a very hot (and always beautiful) day, and was driven to the building which housed the production offices for X2. Just as I walked in, a fiery production meeting had just wrapped up where the danger room had, as is well known now, been cut from the script. Clearly there had been an explosion I just missed and sort of saw the debris and war-torn faces around the office. "Oh boy, here we go," I thought.

Source: http://www.johnottman.com/projects/features/xmen2/thoughts.html



Marvel Studios Producer Kevin Feige talks to Wizard Magazine - July, 2002

Wizard magazine reveals that Bryan Singer wants to keep two intense and visual effects-heavy scenes in X-Men 2, one involving the X-Men's famed Danger Room. "Where it sits in the script right now, it's like a chicken with an eight-inch neck," laments Marvel Studios' Kevin Feige. "Some stuff's going to have to go. Honestly, [at this point], there's a lot still up in the air."

Source: http://www.countingdown.com/movies/1394?item_id=995359



X-Men & X2 Director Bryan Singer talks to Comics Continuum at Comic Con - August 5, 2002

Is he doing anything with Juggernaut or the Danger Room? "No, no. I love Juggernaut actually and I think the Danger Room is cool, but because of the story … We dabbled with ideas and Danger Room designs, but not in this picture."

Source: http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0208/05/xpanel.htm



X2 Production Designer Guy Dyas talks to Press at X2 Set Visit - 2002

Press: What was your favorite set piece to work on?

Dyas: Bryan will probably kill me for saying this, but it probably was the Danger Room. I think we had really come up with something I hadn't seen before. I think it was going to be the absolute perfect connection between set design and computer graphics. What that set was going to do was going to be phenomenal. The sequence and animatics we created were phenomenal. I've seen what the Danger Room was like in the comic books, but thought we could do better than that - with all due respect. I went and looked at the Fox archives and what had existed was a big square room with a window at the end...every single panel or square in the room conceals a weapon or a projectile or some kind of area that lifts or lowers. We made a really intense animatic. I'm almost sure that Bryan will keep it in his back pocket for a later installment.

Source: http://www.ugo.com/channels/filmTv/features/xmen2/xmen2design_2.asp



X-Men & X2 Director Bryan Singer and X2 Production Designer Guy Dyas talk to the Comics Continuum - December 6, 2002

The Danger Room was originally scripted to be in the X-Men sequel, but director Bryan Singer said it won't be in the film.

"I think the Danger Room is cool," Singer said. "We dabbled with ideas and Danger Room designs, but not in this picture."

Production designer Guy Dyas showed the online press some designs of the Danger Room during a recent press tour. "It's not in the film, but it's here to look at," Dyas said.

Sources told The Continuum that in earlier versions of the script Wolverine is in the Danger Room when Stryker's troops attack of the X-Mansion. In the Danger Room, after choosing "Real Danger" mode, he was to have faced columns sprouting from the floor and flying projectiles.

"Everything changed in the script, so we had to go back to square one," Dyas said of the design process. "There was a lot of that. So have tremendous amounts of artwork that's going to go back to Fox archives."

Source: http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0212/06/index.htm



X-Men & X2 Director Bryan Singer talks to CFQ Magazine - March 18, 2003

I love Beast as a character, and I'd like to have him in the next movie. He will have to be done with CG, because makeup would just take too much time. I'd also love to do something with the Danger Room, but that didn't work out.

Source: http://www.countingdown.com/movies/2756437/movieinfo/director?item_id=2982492



X-Men & X2 Director Bryan Singer talks to Wizard X-Men Special Edition Magazine - April 13, 2003

The Danger Room: "Believe me, if the idea had worked really well...if the idea of the Danger Room has worked in [X2], it'd be in the movie," explains Singer. "You choose your battles in terms of money and time. And it's something that perhaps can be explored in a third film. It would be a lot of fun."

Source: http://www.countingdown.com/movies/2756437/movieinfo/production?item_id=3028925



X-Men Franchise Producer Ralph Winter talks to Comics Continuum - April 16, 2003

"We certainly want to have an X-Men 3," Winter said. "We're saving sets, we're saving pieces that we didn't get to use like the Danger Room. Yeah, we're talking about it and hopefully this movie performs and we'll see ourselves doing this again."

Source: http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0304/16/



X-Men & X2 Director Bryan Singer talks to CFQ - May, 2003

I love Beast as a character, and I'd like to have him in the next movie. He will have to be done with CG, because makeup would just take too much time. I'd also love to do something with the Danger Room, but that didn't work out. We built a pretty big set of it and had some plans for it, but it never fully factored into the story - we builta big section, while the bulk of it would have been created in the computer, but it would have cost $5 million to do this sequence that didn't really have a specific function. I didn't fully see how all of it would completely work - we had ideas and did some animatics, but everything's a [budgetary] battle. On the first film we tried to make a $110 million movie for $75 million. This time we're trying to make a $150 million movie for $120 million. There's always trading going on, and I still feel like I'm making THE USUAL SUSPECTS for $6 million. The day you start saying "We've got room to spare", well, the challenge is over.

Source: http://talk.trekweb.com/articles/2003/05/04/1052084957.html



X-Men Franchise Producers Lauren Shuler-Donner and Ralph Winter talks Countingdown.com - May 7, 2003

Q: Given more time and more money, what would you have liked to have seen added to this movie?

Donner: Well, we created the Danger Room, we wanted to see the Danger Room, in fact we built it...

Winter: ...and we're saving it...

Donner: Yeah, we're saving it for the next one...and Beast is a character that with time and money, we would incorporate his story into the movie...

CountingDown: So based on those comments, are you optimistic that some of those things, such as Beast and the Danger Room, would hopefully come about in these films at some point?

Winter: We are optimistic, we're holding stuff, and anxious for this movie to perform, and for the studio to agree with us that we want to make another one, so yeah, were feeling good about it.

Source: http://www.countingdown.com/movies/2756437/movieinfo/production?item_id=3046799



X2 Production Designer Guy Dyas talks to XMF - 2003

Dyas: I think so, the designs for the Sentinels and the Danger Room have been carefully archived for the next film. The Sentinels were almost fully conceptualized and taken in 3D while the Danger Room was hald built on a stage up in Vancouver. We tried to incoporate these things into X2, but there was just too much going on in the film already and had we added all of the scenes that we wanted to add, the film would have ended up being 4 hours long...So look out for the Danger Room sometime down the line

X2M: The Danger Room. How much of the set was built before being cut? I read in an article that you were sad to see it not get filmed.

Dyas: I think that it was about half built. I kept some photos becuase it looked really impressive, even at that stage. I was sad to see that scene go because I collaborated with Adam Kubert, (the genious comic book artist who draws Wolverine on a regular basis), on staging that scene inside of the set. Adam did some original boards for us and they clearly showed how amazing the whole scene was going to be. Wolverine is one of my favorite characters, and this would have been his big moment, his time to kick ass on the big screen like no one else before.

Source: http://www.xmenfilms.net/exclusive/guydyas.html



X2 Production Designer Guy Dyas talks to CountingDown.com - May, 2003

About the Danger Room:
This is a set that was fully conceptualized and was going to be a key moment in X2 because it was going to allow us to witness one of Wolverine's training sessions. The room's overall shape was oval, but the control room from which Xavier can monitor the progress of each session was going to be mobile. So basically the fight was going to be very dynamic because the Danger Room's weapons were going to be dynamic and our point of view from the control room was going to be dynamic. I am a big fan of Adam Kubert's work and he's very cool because he did a story board sequence for me showing Wolverine in action and based on my Danger Room design. We built half of the enormous set on stage, however due to time constraints the overall sequence needed to be cut from the final script. It was particularly sad for me because so much development, design and even construction effort went into the set, but ultimately I think that it is better to save it for a future film so as to be able to feature it fully. With a scene taking place in a space like the Danger Room you just don't want to have to compromise and I think that it will be a big part of the next film.

Source: http://www.countingdown.com/features?feature_id=3037579



X-Men Franchise Producer Lauren Shuler-Donner talks to Variety - November 25, 2003

After "Constantine," Shuler Donner plans a short break from comics to do the drama "The Secret Life of Bees" and then is back for "X3." For the third installment, she wants to include a loquacious, blue-furred scientist called the Beast and a sequence in the "X-Men's" training center, the Danger Room.

Source: http://www.countingdown.com/movies/2756437?item_id=3270585




X-MEN 3 (2006) Related

IGN Filmforce - March 22, 2005

IGN FilmForce's secret X3 source advised us that Anna Paquin is signed to return as Rogue and that the Danger Room will finally be seen.

Source: http://filmforce.ign.com/x-men/articles/597/597963p1.html



AICN Script Review - June 13, 2005

On the cool side of things (both literally and figuratively), Bobby and Kitty both share time in none other than the Danger Room. It’s a relatively short sequence, and it’s not all that well-written (of all the things you could do in something as neat as the Danger Room, why have a bunch of bullets flying at two mutants during a World War II setting?!?), but at least it’s given a nod in this film instead of completely forgotten about in the others.

Source: http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=20443

 

[NocturnalMadman]

I didn't realise it had been built for x2 and dropped AGAIN. Only knew about the first film.

The designs look cool, I think WWII is a bit of a waste butchuck Colossus in the scene and it'd be better...

 

[Mr Sensitive]

I liked very much those designs by Kubert and all this amazing conceptual art, Retro.

I really hope they use the Danger Room in X3, the holographic training has always been a great idea.

 

[spidey207]

As stated earlier, It would help the plot, not take away from it by showing the excellerated jump in powers by the different X-men.

 

[Retroman]

As stated earlier, It would help the plot, not take away from it by showing the excellerated jump in powers by the different X-men.

True

 

[Jennifer Walters]

Wow. I had totally forgotten about that Danger Room Teaser Trailer.

 

[Doomed_hero]

Still think it would be cool if the movie started off with the end of X2 where Jean is abot to die. It is all the same except cyclops who is doing something different. the n jean dies and you here "Senario fails."

 

[GNR]

Still think it would be cool if the movie started off with the end of X2 where Jean is abot to die. It is all the same except cyclops who is doing something different. the n jean dies and you here "Senario fails."

That has potential to be a good scene.I would hate to Cyke go thru that though.The guy's gonna be an emotional wreck!Poor guy.

 

[Will]

I'm really hoping The Danger Room makes in into the 3rd. If Gambit isn't in at least put that in there.

 

[ichorinmyveins]

I hope the opening will be in danger room.

 

[Mimic317]

The danger room could be pretty sweet if done right. It could be a scene, like in the Ultimates, where Logan goes nuts berserker raging and tearing apart the Xmen one by one. But the twist could be, he freezes when he sees a hologram of Jean...

 

[Retroman]

How come no ones talking about the danger room?

 

[fazeforce]

Retroman - I know that's its been stated countless times on these boards, but I gotta say it again - YOU ROCK. You're a friggin' machine!

Anywho - a danger room sequence would be cool - but I gotta tell you, if it's included as just an arbitrary scene to just show it off and doesn't do anything to advance the film - even exposition from the characters during the scene - I don't know that I'd want it to be in the film.

The cool thing for me would be seeing the X-Men use their powers - and I'd rather see them doing it against a real opponent, not something shooting darts at them.

That said - I think they are going to give us a danger room sequence in X3 - they know the fans want it.

 

[Captain Zero]

RETROMAN - gotta second the props! Rad pics & history.

Here's hoping we get the danger room. Don't really care if it's integral to the plot, altho I like the idea of some newer mutants having chance to shine for just a sec, outside of the main flow of the story -- like that brief shot of Colussus in X2 going metal -- that was killer!

My dream would be a danger room of Wolvie stalking the Hand through quiet streets of Kyoto, but that's not gonna happen. Still just a sucker for that old graphic novel.

 

[Retroman]

No problem guys.

I agree. They could have some really cool scenes with the other mutants showing off their powers. It would also explain how they are so well trained for combat.

 

[borinquenknight]

i think the most logical dangerroom scene for this movie would be xavier showing beast through the lower levels of the mansion and bringing him into the danger room observation area and the audiance not knowing where they are and xavier being like "And this is the DAnger room" and it zooms in showing smaller characters training in the danger room so that one day they too will become xmen, it could show shadowcat, colossus, cypher, multiple man, dazzler etc.

Someone needs to give you a writing job on this film. This sounds great to me.

 

[GNR]

It wouldn't make sense for Beast to come back and have no idea what the Danger Room is.Beast was one of the originals,and if anything,it should be mentioned that he had a hand in building it and making modifications to it over the years.

If anything,it should be Colossus and Shadowcat seeing the Danger Room for the first time along with the audience.

 

[Pauluz]

in the heat of battle would be silly, unless they're in the Danger Room!

 

[Neto Magnus]

Danger! Will Robinson, Danger!

 

[The Geek Vault]

There in the danger room