Okay, so finally I managed to get the guts on posting some ideas.
Enjoy!
It's long, bring your supper if possible.
Scenes removed:
Magneto and Xavier find Jean.
Jean kills Charles in her own house.
Storm and Wolverine go to Alkali lake.
Kitty and Bobby scene.
Taking out the metal of the weapons.
The entrance and line of the X-Men in the “final battle”.
Wolverine looks for Jean.
New characters: Gambit, Emma Frost
Characters "taken away": Kitty, Colossus.
When: Replacing the scene of young Jean
We find a Charles slightly younger, but with the wheelchair. He’s in a meeting with Mr. Worthington and Warren (Warren is about 13) and Jean, Scott and Storm (approximately Warren’s age) are next to him sitting on a comfortable sofa.
Mr. Worthington: Then you will help him?
Xavier: Of course. (smiles) It’s what this school is for.
Mr. Worthington: Are you sure (sighs) are you sure that you can cure Warren?
Xavier: I said that I could teach young Warren to control his talent, but I never said I would cure
Mr. Worthington: Talent? TALENT? Have you seen the THINGS my son has on his back? You call that talent, Mr. Xavier?
Xavier: Mr. Worthington, please. I teach my pupils to know how to control their power and make them… believe that his mutation is a gift. Please understand…
Suddenly, Xavier’s facial expression changes. He looks at Jean, who has a real EVIL face. She's staring directly Mr.Worthington.
Jean (w/ deep voice): You won’t cure your son.
Mr. Worthington: What?
Jean (deep voice): Neither him neither ANYBODY!
Furniture in the room starts to shake and the Worthingtons get alarmed. Mr. Worthington looks at Jean repulsively.
Xavier: Scott, hold her!
Jean (w/ deep voice): YOU WON’T DO SUCH THING! YOU WON’T CURE US, NO YOU WON’T! NEVER! (screams)
Xavier: Jean, Jean… calm down… (holds her hands and shuts his eyes) Calm down. I’m here, I’m here. Jean.
Cyclops: We’re here.
Jean looks breathlessly at Cyclops. Furniture stops shaking. Jean falls on Scott smiling, and sleeps.
(pause)
Mr. Worthington: Yes, I see how you help them. Warren, let’s go.
While they’re going, Warren stares at them. They (except Jean) stare him back.
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When: Before Storm speaks with the Professor.
Emma enters class.
Emma: Good morning. Allow me to introduce myself: I’m Ms. Frost, your new teacher, and substitute of… Professor Jean Grey. My aim is to enjoy your classes with me as much as you do with the Professor.
(pause. Emma stares at them)
Emma: Samuel Guthrie, it’s not the first time I hear this, but I wish you’d stop thinking that “I’m hot”. (laughs) It isn’t a very mature way to consider a superior. If you don’t stop I’ll make you think that you’re the most beautiful rose of the flower bed.
Samuel: You wouldn’t do that.
Emma looks at him and smiles.
Emma: Let’s begin. You, Jubilation Lee, could you…?
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When: Cyclops in Alkali lake.
Cyclops searches for Jean. After various moments of desperation, he finds her at the border of the lake and smiles.
Cyclops: Jean!
He runs towards her.
Cyclops: Jean…
He strokes her.
Cyclops lowers his head onto her chest. Tears start to fall from his eyes. He gets the mobile.
Cyclops (crying): I found her.
In Magneto’s lair, Callisto says to Erik that she detected a mutant more powerful than him, blah, blah, blah you know how it continues.
We come back to the school, and we are in the same scene as Xavier’s funeral, the only difference is that the tombstone says “Jean Grey” and Cyclops is in Storm’s place (but he doesn’t speak, he just looks at the tomb). Wolverine looks at the “bowl of fire”, suddenly the fire goes upwards and starts to grow larger.
The ground shakes and Jean springs from the tomb, “unconscious”. She rises, and the fire follows her, taking the shape of a bird. Both are suspended in the air. The fire keeps moving and surrounds Jean in spirals. As the fire is starting to be part of her (that’s to say, she’s on fire), her clothes begin to change. Astonished, the witnesses gaze steadily the scene.
Charles stares at Emma, who’s surprisingly calm, but serious.
Phoenix looks directly at the Professor, and screams with a very dark and deep voice:
Phoenix: YOU’VE TRAPPED ME FOR YEARS IN THIS PUNY LAYER OF FLESH! IN THIS LIE! That’s why… YOU’LL BE PUNISHED!
We see Cyclops, shaking his head, incredulous.
Suddenly, a card on flames falls on the first row (where Rogue, Bobby, Colossus, Beast and Moira are sitting). The card explodes at the same time the people sitting are either jumping on time or covering themselves.
Magneto’s mini-brotherhood (Maddrox, Gambit, Arclight, Psylocke, Callisto, Quill, Juggernaut and Pyro) attacks.
Magneto stares, in between the trees of the mansion, at Jean.
A fight begins:
Cyclops>Arclight
Beast>Juggernaut
Angel>Quill
Storm>Callisto
Wolverine>Maddrox
Emma Frost>Gambit
Iceman>Pyro
Colossus helps the pupils to go inside the school.
The fight is a bit long, that includes:
Quill goes to help his partners, but Angel clasps him with his hands and flies. Quill gets rid by activating his spikes. Angel gives a cry and seizes him. (Quill manages to stop being crashed on the ground by, again, activating his spikes). He starts throwing constantly spikes, but Angel manages to miss every single one and knocks down Quill with his wings.
The fight scene of Storm is similar to the one of the final battle, only that Storm is kinda loosing.
Maddrox multiplies and minuses his clones cuz Wolverine is constantly cutting into pieces all his copies, trying to find the “original”.
Emma manages to miss on time one of Gambit’s cards. Gambit throws another one but this time Emma is prepared, and uses her diamond form to protect herself.
Pyro is throwing fireballs to Iceman, who’s protecting Rogue with an ice shield. Psylocke suddenly appears, surprises Rogue and clasps her wrists. She falls unconscious and Rogue absorbs her powers.
Bobby seems to not hold on for longer Pyro’s attacks. Suddenly, we hear a “smack” sound and Pyro falls. Rogue “appears”. She goes towards Iceman while shaking her hand (since it hurt her a bit).
Iceman (serious): Do you really want the cure?
Even though the punch hurt him, Pyro gets up and he continues the battle with Iceman.
Beast tries to stop the unstoppable, but he starts to get tired. Suddenly, Colossus charges Juggernaut and they fight. Beast, who’s on the floor, looks at the ceiling.
We see what caught his attention: Phoenix and Charles are about 6 metres from the floor, fighting telepathically. Phoenix is staring at Charles fiercely, while he seems to be suffering.
Phoenix (whispers): Beg for me, Charles.
Phoenix is turning darker (like in the original scene of Charles’ death).
Xavier: Jean… please…
Xavier is awfully tense.
Xavier: Think of Scott…
Phoenix screams. Suddenly, Xavier falls onto the ground. Phoenix falls too, slowly. When she gets to the floor, her face demonstrates amazing tranquillity and, at the same time, she seems a bit disconcerted.
Magneto walks towards her.
Magneto: My dear child (he strokes her hair) Oh, my poor, dear child. You didn’t find a home here (she stares at him) but I’ll give you one, where no one will limit your (pause, looks at Charles’ corpse) your splendid talent. Come with me (whispers) No one will ever defy you, since I won’t ever tolerate it.
Magneto gives signs to Pyro of withdrawal.
They escape with Jean.
Cyclops: No!
Arclight makes him shut up. She goes away with Psylocke on her arms.
Rogue, Wolverine, Storm, Beast, Bobby and Cyclops, with their clothes ripped off and fatigued, surround Xavier’s body. Beast crouches and takes Xavier’s wrist. He doubts, looks at the others and shakes his head a bit.
Storm falls on her knees, hugs Charles and cries. All the rest look sad or begin to cry, even the students.
The scene changes where we see Charles’ Xavier tombstone. In front there’s Kitty and some friends leaving some flowers, crying.
When: After Rogue & Wolverine’s chat
Wolverine sighs. He hears that someone is fidgeting while he’s walking through the corridor.
He stops in front of the door where he listens the sounds, and we see that it’s Beast (we can only see his back) with a lab coat and the room he’s actually in is the school lab.
Beast: Good night, Logan.
Wolverine looks slightly impressed.
Beast: (ironic) You’re not the only one who has animal instincts. But I guess you already guessed that, no? (he turns) What are you doing here? Or do you always take nocturnal walks through the school?
Logan notices a flask with the symbol of Worthington Labs next to Beast.
Logan: What’s that?
Beast looks at him coldly.
Logan: WHAT IS THAT?
Beast: Nothing that may interest you
Logan: What’s that **** doing here?
Beast: I had to analyze it to see if the copy really works
Logan: Oh PLEASE! You too? Look, I’m just fed up like Storm of people moaning about this and that of the “mutant symptom”. So you are a disease? Like the rest?
Beast: (sighs) You have no idea… what I’ve been…(shakes his head) do you know what is like, people chasing you because your appearance is not of their taste? Logan, do you think I didn’t have difficulties on crossing a simple street? Or…or…touching a woman? I’m a human being, I have the right
Logan: (sarcastic laugh) NO. You aren’t. (pause) Have you thought of what all the kids of this school are passing through? You’ve noticed Rogue? Actually, she just left! Are you going to leave too? Are you going to show we’re chickens here? (pause) Really, I thought you were smart.
Beast: Sincerely, I don’t know what to think. Please, leave me alone. This does not concern you.
Logan walks towards the flask but Beast pushes him violently onto the wall.
Logan: You beast.
Beast: Logan, don’t force me to
Logan: I let Rogue go because SHE is the one who has to take the right decision. She has to learn. What’s up? Do I have to teach something to you too?
Beast: You can’t shut up, can’t you?
Logan: If you don’t throw that crap down the drainpipe, (SNIKT) I’ll make you.
(Roar)
Beast: Little man… (jumps towards Logan) ENOUGH!
Fight.
BANG. They break through the wall. Sounds of claws and roars are heard across the place. Rogue, who’s near the mansion, stops and listens. Children get out of their rooms to see what’s happening. Rogue enters and observes the scene, scared.
Beast and Wolverine seem to fight till death.
Suddenly, they stop, and look at each other. They get up and bow.
Emma (voice in OFF): Now, come to the living room before I make you dance a tango.
We're in a different room (the living room) with Cyclops, Beast, Wolverine, Emma and Storm.
Emma: Words can’t describe what just happened.
Storm: What went through your minds? Don’t you… don’t you think?
(pause)
Cyclops: How did you get the cure? You stole it?
Beast: No. I asked the creator, Dr. Kavita Rao.
Cyclops: So “the cure” really works? It’s not a trap?
Beast: On principal, yes. But I have to be 100% sure.
Logan (sarcastic): And how are you going to prove that?
Beast ignores him, but Logan looks at Beast.
Storm: Look, Hank, I remember your… bad experiences, but
Cyclops: We have to talk about this. Make sure “the cure” works, and I trust tomorrow you’ll have results. But don’t take decisions without speaking with us, okay? (pause) Good. Let’s go to sleep for once.
Beast is about to enter the lab.
Logan:You're a mutant. (sarcastic) Try to not-forget, okay?
To be continued... (more new scenes to come)
what do ya think?
it's in the works.
