Vaughn's Danger Room Storyboards & Sentinel Head Pics

[Retroman]

Storyboard artist Tim Burgard posted these storyboards he did for the Danger Room sequence while Matthew Vaughn was still on board. The scene is different from the one that we ended up getting and the Sentinel design looks an awful lot like Guy Dyas's design for X2.

From timburgardart.com:

Source: http://www.timburgardart.com/story_full.php?page=15
http://www.timburgardart.com/story_full.php?page=16
http://www.timburgardart.com/resume.php

 

[Retroman]

These photos look like they were taken in the props department of X3 on August 30th 2005.

From rositavisibleworld:

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/89812767@N00/184237912/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/89812767@N00/184237917/

 

[WideAwake]

Wow, the storyboards look great, especially the first panel. Has a bit of a comicy feel to it.
Not too sure about the skeletons though. It would be a bit too much.

That is not the same Sentinel head as used in the final movie, is it?

I liked the way they handled the Danger Room in the final movie.
It was nice looking action, that reintroduces us the to characters. Also, the scene had the right tone to not make it being a simulation be an anti-climax. The scene was a bit rushed though.

Thanks for posting Retroman!

 

[AznBABYBANDIT]

that does not look like the final sent.

 

[Retroman]

Wow, the storyboards look great, especially the first panel. Has a bit of a comicy feel to it.
Not too sure about the skeletons though. It would be a bit too much.

I think it would have been cool to see that.Every X-Men fan was dying to see the Danger Room come to life and ultimately it was pretty underwhelming.

That is not the same Sentinel head as used in the final movie, is it?

It is actually....

Source: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=7611937#section16

Thanks for posting Retroman!

You're welcome.

 

[AznBABYBANDIT]

0_o it looks much much darker

 

[X-Maniac]

I think it would have been cool to see that.Every X-Men fan was dying to see the Danger Room come to life and ultimately it was pretty underwhelming.

Agreed. I still can't believe that TV clip with Wolverine suddenly stepping out from behind the Sentinel head was what ended up in the movie!

The skeletons concept is from Days of Future Past, that would have been interesting, but rather gruesome for a PG13...

 

[Retroman]

Agreed. I still can't believe that TV clip with Wolverine suddenly stepping out from behind the Sentinel head was what ended up in the movie!

The skeletons concept is from Days of Future Past, that would have been interesting, but rather gruesome for a PG13...

Yup definetly Days Of Future Past and the tv clip kind of spoiled the whole scene. Cause it wasn't much different in theaters which is what everyone was hoping.

 

[Pauluz]

I love it!

 

[CapBeerCino]

I don't like the whole "star trek holodeck" direction they've taken. It's hard to believe that kind of technology would be available anywhere in the near future - I found that part of the movie very hard to suspend.

 

[AznBABYBANDIT]

is there one u can buy? but 1:5 size?

 

[gothicFLAVOURS]

I wouldn't have liked the scene of that storyboard. It would have looked great, but it would have ended with the "you can get hurt in the Danger Room" motto.

I loved what ended up on screen, but I would have liked to see more parts fo the Sentinels than just the head of one of them.

 

[Bishop2]

Those storyboards are fantastic - far superior to the NON-action sequence we got in the movie. The version in the final film just feels like they didn't wanna spend the money to do it right, which is unfortunate. In particular, the "skeletons sitting upright" thing would've been absolutely phenomenal to see play out.

 

[Angamb]

this session would have been with Bobby and Kitty only, remember it from the first draft?

 

[Bishop2]

this session would have been with Bobby and Kitty only, remember it from the first draft?

When did we see the first draft?

 

[the a1ant]

When AICN did their review of the X3 script. They said only Bobby and Kitty were in the Danger Room, in a war setting (or something like that?).

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

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.

I think it looks cool, but the skeleton thing might've looked corny on screen. It depends on how the effects would've looked, lol. I like what we got in the final film, but they should've shown more of the sentinel, and not have released that clip before the film was released.

 

[gap5ewl]

I don't like the whole "star trek holodeck" direction they've taken. It's hard to believe that kind of technology would be available anywhere in the near future - I found that part of the movie very hard to suspend.

yeah same here it just didnt fit in with the realism of the movie. They should've either kept singer's design or just made the danger room look like a battlefield.

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

I don't like the whole "star trek holodeck" direction they've taken. It's hard to believe that kind of technology would be available anywhere in the near future - I found that part of the movie very hard to suspend.

But technology for Cerebro is believeable?! Or adamantium which is a totally made up, fictional, element?!

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

Okay, so Iceman and Kitty were gonna get fried into skeletons, and then they'd come back as normal?

Thank god Vaughn walked.

 

[Bishop2]

Okay, so Iceman and Kitty were gonna get fried into skeletons, and then they'd come back as normal?

Thank god Vaughn walked.

Yes. The Danger Room. It's all holograms. Proper safety protocols and crap.

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

Yes. The Danger Room. It's all holograms. Proper safety protocols and crap.

If it was all holograms, then they wouldn't get fried down to skeletons in the first place.

It's called the "DANGER Room", because despite being holograms and simulations, the DANGER is very real.

 

[Bishop2]

If it was all holograms, then they wouldn't get fried down to skeletons in the first place.

It's called the "DANGER Room", because despite being holograms and simulations, the DANGER is very real.

The point is that the "being fried down to skeletons" is part of the hologram.

I would like to think that they would nevertheless be injured by this experience, even if the danger isn't as serious as it seems on the surface.

 

[HughJackFan420]

i hate the Sentinels in the concept drawings...

from X2 they had the same design for the Sentinels. that same fan/air refreshenr for cars look on the Sentinels is corny. they were gonna make the Sentnels mobile instead of airborne which to me is hella lame. i hope they think of sticking to the more original look if they should put Sentinels in X4

 

[Bishop2]

from X2 they had the same design for the Sentinels. that same fan/air refreshenr for cars look on the Sentinels is corny. they were gonna make the Sentnels mobile instead of airborne which to me is hella lame. i hope they think of sticking to the more original look if they should put Sentinels in X4

The sentinels have always been mobile. It's just that sometimes they can also fly.

I don't even know if they flew in the original story they were introduced in, but they certainly walked.

 

[Nell2ThaIzzay]

The sentinels have always been mobile. It's just that sometimes they can also fly.

I don't even know if they flew in the original story they were introduced in, but they certainly walked.

I think what he meant by "mobile" is the fact they were considering a "rollie pollie" type deal for the Sentinels, similar to the droidekas in Star Wars: Episode I