But they weren't BORN into the team. They all had origin stories.
Huh what? Origin stories would be cool, but I didn't say they should release a solo Cyclops/Jean/Wolverine/Storm movie first before an actual X-Men team movie.
Imagine if they released a film titled Wolverine in 2000, then Cyclops in 2001, then Jean Grey in 2002 and finally Storm in 2003 then the all-ensemble X-Men film in 2004. The first all-ensemble X-Men might be perform huge with the 4-films that led to it...
I said "imagine" and "might perform". I didn't suggest Fox should have done it before.
Stop putting words in my mouth.
Good idea for a story, sure.
But good idea to bank money at the box-office, no.
And you are forcing me to like this idea and trying to make me contradict myself. You know what let this discussion go.
okay, so avengers is the most successful, highest grossing comic book movie, ever. and the hype built up more and more by releasing films each in the same universe as each other.
which culminated to 5 to 6 superheroes, coming together. that's essentially wat x men is as well, dozens of superheroes appearing onscreen together. my question/theory is this:
obviously fox focuses on wolverine as the main character in all of its cinematic lore. so, wat if they started off with him, as an origin story, and then a magneto and xavier origin story similar to first class, and so on, and so forth, until we get to something like X Men - a film where all of them are finally culminated on screen to fight alongside together, finally - instead of starting off that way, the same way I heard they were gonna do the justice league movie (that might have would have been doomed to fail).
do you think the x men films would have been more well received/higher grossed/more popular?
Solo X-Men films? No. The only X-Men who can support solo comics are Wolverine and... err that's it. Unless you wanna count someone like Deadpool. If they can't support solo comics, what makes you think they'll support solo films?
The X-Men are a team. They are together with a share mythology because they all share one thing in common(they are mutants).
It's not like Avengers or Justice League where most members have their own solo stories and solo mythologies.
first before replying to your next quote, I just have to say that this post in fact made me lol when I read it to myself.Good idea for a story, sure.
But good idea to bank money at the box-office, no.
And you are forcing me to like this idea and trying to make me contradict myself. You know what let this discussion go.
If they want to make origin stories/solo movies for Jean, Cyclops and the rest, it could happen, after all, the length of a single film isn't very long. I mean just look at Lost or other TV shows with an ensemble cast, if they can dedicate centric episodes for 6 seasons to more than 15 characters, why can't the writers of Fox come up with a story for Cyclops, Jean, Storm that would last long than at least 1hour and 30 minutes. The problem though, the scale of it wouldn't be very big, I don't think it will do very well at the box-office especially if the budget is big and chances are Fox would put characters that shouldn't be in the film in the first place. They would do it just to get more interest to the public. Like what they did in Origins by mixing Gambit/Deadpool/Cyclops/Emma Frost in the origin story of Wolverine. And personally, instead of making smaller films, they could justcontinue making films with the cast that started the series. No one is getting any younger after-all.
Good idea for a story, sure.
But good idea to bank money at the box-office, no.
And you are forcing me to like this idea and trying to make me contradict myself. You know what let this discussion go.
It made me lol also, you clearly called him out and he knew it, so 'you know what let this discussion go.' Haha
As everyone else said, the X-Men series in the comics is about the TEAM from the get go. Sure nobody is born into a team but that's a silly argument because you can make it for any series.
"Marty McFly and Doc Brown weren't BORN friends, lets have one movie all about Marty and one all about Doc and then lead into BTTF" nah it doesn't work that way with everything.
Avengers the movie is a team up of different characters with totally different origins. They could all exist within their own universe if little things didnt connect them. But X-Men are all in the same mutant universe. They start that way in the comics, tv shows and everything.. Of course the movies are going to be the same. Writers and viewers like the character dynamics between like Logan and Scott or Xavier and Magneto because they're all supporting characters of each other. Iron man has Pepper and Rhodes, Thor has Jane and loki etc. X-Men IS all of the characters together, thats the point.
Nobody wants to watch a movie about Jean and her parents.