WeaponXProject
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larryfilmmaker said:Because FOX doesn't give a crap about telling truly compelling stories OR being loyal to the X-Men mythology.
1) Wolverine is not 6'3".
2) Wolverine is not the central hero of the Phoenix storyline and the only one who can stop the Phoenix.
3) Wolverine, in his "berskerker rage", would kill his own teammates (especially in the early days)... he doesn't just huff, puff, and stab some soldiers in the chest.
4) Wolverine doesn't make wisecracks like a class clown making fun of the other students. he gets shots in sometimes, but not like a clown
5) William Stryker was a preacher who murdered his newborn baby and his wife in cold blood the moment he saw his son was a mutant. He was not a scientist in charge of the Weapon X program, he had nothing to do with Wolverine in any way... we're going to get more confusing garbage like this...
6) Sabretooth was not a two dimensional moron who grunted and snarled once in a while
My point is, Avi Arad and Fox don't care about staying loyal to the subject matter. They have proven that point time and time again, but the X-fans keep coming back for more asian callistos and a wolverine who isn't only taller than wolverine is in the comics... but he's actually much taller than the average height! I understand that some things need to be changed in the transition to the big screen, but they barely even stay loyal to the underlying THEMES of the X-Tales. Now we've got yet another X-Men movie with the main actor working as producer. That is absolute garbage and shouldn't even be allowed in my opinion. That doesn't mean he's working hard to make sure the movie is good, it means he wants control or he's not doing it fools. He did it on X3 and we all remember how great of a film that turned out to be...
I want a FAN who understands how to translate to make the X-Men movies... not somebody who admits to never having read them before.
that's because you're trying to cram every little detail and in comic land, that's impossible. You have to stay true to the THEMES and important events. There are like 30 years of Wolverine story... of course it won't fit. Know what? There are like 50 years of Cyclops stories... there are 70 years of Superman stories... of course you can make a single movie about ANY comic book character. Wolverine is not on the top of the comic book character list when it comes to compelling storytelling. I say that belongs to the icons like Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, and the X-Men TEAM.
What you know Benioff was a big Wolverine fan and ditched other projects to do the movie script. He said he read a ton of his comics and his history can be peiced together in them.
Points one through six are not changeble now and have no issue in effecting his origin besides the fact that Sabretooth sucked in the X1.
Cyk has 50 years right? 50 years of being the same boyscout character that says and does everything right.
Superman has had 5 movies now and another coming so I think Logan can have one about his beginning.
What is not compelling about Wolverine...the fact that he had clues of his unanswered past and he went on searches to find out the truth....if it is not compelling then why is it the anchor of the X universe in the fact that they alluded to his past and the puzzles to them....the most compelling part is the fact that we don't know it all. We don't know everything that happened to him, whether he was a good agent when he worked in the gov't, whether he agreed or was tricked into doing the Weapon X project. And most of all we don't know what he'd do if he found it out and went back retracing his steps. If that's not compelling than what is? Cyclops' first pair of goggles. His leadership roles which are always the same. Flat characters don't make for compelling films. Rounded one do, mystical ones do...Wolverine is all of this.