thorstone said:
Still McKellen kicked ass, I demand they skip out on spin offs and have him for one more sequel, redeeming himself, helping the Xmen fight a greater evil.
X-Men United all over again?
I suppose it
could work. But I'm really okay with just having 3 movies.
If a 4th one is made, it needs to be done very carefully... because everything has pretty much been wrapped up and concluded with
X-Men: The Last Stand, and I don't want another sequel to turn into a retcon fest where they just say "Oh, Cyclops never died! Rogue was never cured! Magneto was never cured! Jean rises again!" and it pretty much just undoes everything that happened in
X-Men: The Last Stand and goes overboard with the resurrections and stuff.
Rogue should stay cured. Jean should stay dead.
I
could see Cyclops having survived the encounter with Jean. But I think it was pretty convincing the way he died.
However it happened, Magneto obviously wasn't cured. I could see him coming back.
I think the way that a possible
X-Men 4 could work, is pretty much make it a direct continuation / expansion upon the battle at Alcatraz. After witnessing what Magneto was capable of with the Golden Gate Bridge and his assault on Alcatraz, Trask now spearheads Project Wideawake, the Sentinel program, to try to prevent any such occurances from happening again (now that Worthington Labs has lost Leech, and can no longer create the cure).
There could be some kind of subplot with Xavier on Muir Island, but I dunno how exactly that would play out. It would be very, VERY, awkward seeing Xavier walking, with a big old beard, instead of the bald guy in the suit, rolling around in the wheelchair. And it wouldn't make any sense to put him back into the wheelchair, since he does have a new body.
This is why I'm very weary of an
X-Men 4, because there's too much stuff that could go wrong. They'd be skating on very thin ice, and there would be little room for error. I acknowledge that with the ending of
X-Men: The Last Stand, it could possibly work. But I think that a 4th movie would just be a ticking time bomb waiting to blow up in the face of every X-Men fan everywhere.
If it could be done right, and add to the world and story we have (and not just end up as some stand alone story, isolated from the trilogy), and not get stupid with a bunch of resurrections and "they weren't really cured!" angles, I'd love to see it. I'd definatley love to see it over
Wolverine and
Magneto, as I'm not a supporter of movie spinoffs.
But I'm just really worried with how it will play out, with Cyclops dead, Rogue cured, Beast off in the U.N., Xavier in another body on Muir Island, and Jean dead... too many character arcs have been concluded to really justify a 4th movie, in my opinion. And I don't want to see a 4th movie that just moves on without those characters, just to introduce new characters. It won't feel like part of the same franchise. Just because a comic book can get away with certain things doesn't mean a movie can.