Singer's lack of vision, too many characters, Wolverine undoubtedly front and center.
The character list would certainly be intimidating. Tough to imagine everyone getting something interesting to do, and there's a ton of potential disappointment when favourites are benched (see Rogue in DOFP). They would almost have to pluck the horsemen from the X-Men team just to thin out their numbers.
Aging actors is an elephant in the room too. Stewart and McKellen aren't going to be doing much exciting action. Would they get Cumming back?
And of course there's the very real possibility that all of the bad stuff from Apocalypse would be ported over. That final action sequence was rubbish for starters, and would be that way with any actor against those green screens.
What if Ben Foster reprised His role instead ofappearing in Inferno and Warcraft (though Warcraft wouldn't be a conflict since that was shot back in 2014, I think).
As much as I like continuity, Ben Foster is no Angel nowadays. I think even with the original cast it might have been worth recasting him.
It wouldn't have changed much, you could have mckellens magneto with his wife who is killed, even if he doesn't have a daughter it would still be about the same.
Mckellen has been in 4 X-Men movies, there wasn't been an OT movie without him.
The film would have been massively altered by the different cast and cast dynamics. It wouldn't "still be the same" at all. McKellen's Magneto was a key part of a larger ensemble, while Fassbender is pretty much a co-lead in a smaller group. Whether you agree that Fassbender is more dominant than Mckellen or not, you must at least agree that there are many more characters to serve in the future period.
Which is a major downer in a thread asking for some imagination.
You can look at any film with a what if attitude but X-Men apocalypse was not restricted because its cast or characters, it was moved along by the story they chose to tell, just like X3, origins, DOFP ect ect
Absolutely you can look at any film with this attitude. People do it all the time: Del Toro's "Hobbit", a TDK sequel with Joker, and I'm sure Blomkamp's "Alien 5" very soon. Why not now? It's just something to talk about.
Not much intrigue left with the older cast, especially after undoing TLS.
Which is why that "veteran" aspect works as well as it does with the remaining First Class cast. Everyone has been more or less separated and are reuniting for this conflict. Like I said the focus would be on the fledgling "young mutants" and any development for that previous X-Men would be less engrossing.
Couldn't disagree more on this tbh. Even with the continuity reset, the OT cast are still etched into public consciousness, and there is weight to their history in the roles. Logan for example looks fantastic, and a part of that appeal is the emotion attached to Jackman and Stewart (those trailers are just awesome).
The FC cast (despite some great talent) have the burden of coming second. They will never be more established, and the unconvincing time jumps make it even more apparent that these guys are not the people that audience have grown up/old with. Mystique reminiscing in the jet in Apocalypse has
nothing on Magneto's "all those years watsed" scene with Xavier in DOFP.
Veterans or inexperienced characters doesn't matter. Singer lacks the eye for big action and spectacle. So it is too out there too imagine IMO. The bad fight coreogrohy wouldn't change. The cheap uninspired setting and atmosphere of the finale wouldn't change. But most importantly, Singer's version of Apocalypse doesn't change with the casts. They'd be dealing with the same Apocalypse. The guy that just stands there and blocks attacks with no visually enticing action displays. No morphing. No energy blasts. Just standing there until Phoenix gets him. So I highly doubt any difference in the action department.
Experience does matter a little. It would have effected how Singer presented their powers/abilities.
BUT. I do agree. Outside of small, intricate sequences (like Nightcrawler at the White House and Quicksilver's scenes), Singer is not really an action guy. He's not shown a talent for large scale combat. The future stuff in DOFP was pretty good, but still quite small in scope.
And also Singer could have had a mystique and psylocke fight, he could have directed a huge kick ash fight with the experienced fighters but that didn't happen.
That is a cool example of something that would have been great to see in Apocalypse. Never thought about that. Could have been fun to see.
)
