So you think they should replace the traditional team with the new mutants and have 1 or 2 cameos from the OC as supporting cast just to make people who miss them happy?
See i don't think FOX are seeing new mutants as a vehicle to use the OC again, they are seeing it as another a new set of characters to make movies with.
Regarding New Mutants specifically, it can work where-ever Fox choses to set it, so yes, I'd make it contemporary, and include some OT faces to make fans happy. It wouldn't harm the film one bit. I strongly believe New Mutants would work better in the present anyway, where they can be viewed truly as the "next generation". A cameo or two would be gravy.
I've not seen a particularly strong argument as to why setting this in the past where everyone is a youngster already would be better.
Outside of New Mutants, I don't believe Fox are interested in it, but I do believe that there are enough interesting characters in the present to have a strong, "non-traditional" team as well. Ice-Man, Rogue and Kitty are not B-list characters, they've just been underserved in this franchise. If you brought back Blink, Bishop, Sunspot and Warpath from the DOFP future scenes as well, you would have a very diverse team.
Actions speak louder then words, its been 10 years since X3, jackmans leaving in 2017, so in another 10 years will this convo still be going on?
Whatever is happening with X-Men films at that point, I'm sure it will be unrecognisable from the franchise as it stands today. If I was to guess, people will be discussing all of the opportunities that have been missed over the years.
Both can be just as tiresome gimmick, especially after 6 movies, and just remember you was the one talking about the overuse of weapon X
It has to be remembered the series already did run itself into the ground until FC and by DOFP the franchise become inconsistent, its not a proper reboot its a timey wimey reboot which hasn't explained the rules to the audience so its likely confusing to understand.
And batman begins actually didn't do all that well at the box office if you compared batman begins $374 mil to the dark knight which jumped quite high up to just over a billion for its second movie which was probably a shock for WB.
Begins had to claw its way out of the grave Batman & Robin dug. I can't think of anything worse to follow, not even Origins.
Point remains, X-Men had hit a new peak by the time Apocalypse rolled out. No-one likes to admit it, but it probably would have faired better if it felt more like a sequel to DOFP. Being good would have helped too.
As for the Weapon X remark, that is oddly a mixture of both rehash and reboot, as it was revisiting what we've seen but also doing it again as part of the rebooted continuity. It earns flack from either side of the scale I guess. And for the record, I don't feel particularly strongly about Weapon X to be honest. My comments over there were in support of someone else.
I love a dose of robbins' reality. Of course, you haven't said anything there we didn't already know.
The new cast has been cast in a series that is already 16 years old and most of them are unknown to mainstream audiences (of course they don't have a similar commercial pull because they are fresh ermerging actors and actresses while Halle Berry and Hugh Jackman are two of the biggest mainstream stars in the United States!) The orginal cast haven't been know the moment they have been cast but have been lucky that Singer re-vived the comic book genre. - The new cast just needs time and way better material to establish a fanbase.
