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James Franco, Simon Kinberg and Wonder Woman movie writer Allan Heinberg are teaming for a new X-Men Multiple Man movie. Deadline reports Fox Studios is developing the flick which will star James Franco as Jamie Madrox the Multiple Man, with Simon Kimberg on board as producer, and Allan Heinberg writing the script. Multiple Man is Jamie Madrox, who, in the comics, conveyed
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We get an update on the X-Men movie universe from Simon Kinberg at the recent 2016 Saturn awards.
Kinberg offers news on Wolverine, Deadpool 2, a new main X-Men movie, New Mutants and Gambit.
“We’re figuring that out now,” Kingerg responded when asked what’s next from the X-Men franchise. “The first thing up, we’re shooting the Wolverine movie right now, and we start shooting Deadpool 2 at the beginning of next year, and I sit down and start writing the next one of the mainline X-Men movies real soon.”
On New Mutants, Kinberg offered:
“I can’t tell you what the roster is, but I can tell you who the director is, which is Josh Boone who directed Fault In Our Stars,” Kinberg said. “We have a really good script and hoping to shoot that real soon, too. It’s very loyal to the comics. I’ll leave it at that.”
While the release of the Channing Tatum Gambit movie has been delayed, Kinberg says he hopes to film next year.
“Yeah. We have a great script on that and hope to shoot that movie at the beginning of Spring of next year.”
(via YouTube)
With the near $800 million box office gross that Deadpool brought it, it’s learned a sequel is coming sooner rather than later.
Fox’s Simon Kinberg filled in Collider that the Deadpool 2 script is almost complete, and that they want to start filming as early as next year.
“The guys, (Paul) Wernick and (Rhett) Rheese, are working on the script, and we hope to have a script very soon… we hope to shoot the movie sometime in the beginning of next year,” Kinberg said.
No details for Deadpool 2 have been released other than it will feature Cable and Ryan Reynolds will return. It’s also been said that it should still have the same tone and budget as the first movie (around $50 million). Domino has also also been rumored for the sequel.
No release date has been set for Deadpool 2.
X-Men: Apocalypse officially kicks off tonight, but yesterday saw advanced screenings take place, which I was privy to.
Currently at Rotten Tomatoes, X-Men: Apocalypse is considered “rotten” with only 47% of the ratings positive.
Audiences listed are giving it a 74% positive rating, so there is a pretty wide gap.
Speaking of the gap, I’ve been traversing the internet checking out fan reaction (reddit is blowing up here), and I think reactions are based on expectations: For example, I went in with low expectations (wasn’t a fan of Days of Future Past or The Wolverine), so I pretty much enjoyed X-Men: Apocalypse; however, if you happen to be a die-hard X-Men fan, this movie probably comes off as disappointing.
So let’s take a look at the good and the bad of X-Men: Apocalypse (Spoilers follow):
The Good:
Opening scene: First Four Horseman: I loved the opening scene set in the past with Apocalypse and his original Four Horseman — those guys were bad ass! The scene got pretty graphic, too, which took me by surprise. The music was pretty epic adding to Apocalypse’s “godlike” presence. Hey, Fox! Can you release the names of the characters and actors! Off to a good start!
Quicksilver: We all recall that first look image of Evan Peters as Quicksilver in X-Men: Days Of Future Past — we all hated it! However, once we saw Quicksilver on screen, the character quickly (no pun intended!) became a fan-favorite and stole the show. Quicksilver steals the show once again in X-Men: Apocalypse. He has by far the best scenes and best written dialogue. How about a spinoff movie?
Psylocke: Olivia Munn was bad ass as well! The look and feel of the character was pretty much straight out of the comics, something which Munn wanted to remain true to. Definitely worked! Another character deserving of a spinoff movie.
Yes. Fox spoiled the ending to the movie the day before its release.
Jean Grey: I’m a fan of Sophie Turner. I dig her in Game of Thrones and felt she played a good enough Jean Grey. What was pretty awesome was when they revealed the Phoenix at the end! Now that was cool to see and might lead into the next X-Men, movie, which may be set in space.
Stan Lee: Always good to see Stan Lee on screen, and this cameo happened to be very special to him because it also featured his wife. Very nice!
Wolverine: I loved the Wolverine scene, it was straight out of the Weapon X comics. We know Hugh Jackman’s time is counting down, so including him with the Berseker Rage was pretty awesome. Thank you!
The Bad:
Visual effects were pretty much crap (guessing this movie is a disaster in 3D).
In my opinion, there is absolutely no excuse for Oscar Isaac to look as bad as he did as Apocalypse. NONE. Especially when they already had a costume designer working on the movie who came up with the exact look out of the comics! But they didn’t use it! This just screams that Fox is too cheap to do the character justice, and it came out as so. The special effects for the rest of the movie were sub bar, IMO, as well.
We could have had this:
But got:
Apocalypse: In addition to the crappy visual effects, his power base was pretty disappointing. The guy acquired thousands of mutant powers, but uses less than a half dozen? Laughable.
New Four Horseman: Storm and Apocalypse show up to Caliban and ask him to find the most powerful mutants. Psylocke steps in and says she knows them, etc. Off to Angel we go. Angel? Huh? He’s one of the most powerful? Again, missed opportunity to create “Archangel.” Angel was probably the most disappointing character in the movie. I felt they needed to transform Angel, like in the comics, to Archangel, which I felt they didn’t come close to. I also felt Magneto becoming a Four Horseman was a waste: We knew he was going to become a good guy. Again. I felt Kinberg and Singer played it too safe with these characters (probably because they’re all basically “good” guys). They didn’t even compare to the original Four Horsemen listed above. Meh.
Lamest character in the movie?
Jubilee: The mall scene was cut from the movie for whatever reason, but hey, instead we probably got a bunch more of the Michael Bay-esque explosions, right? The mall scene featured the Dazzler Easter Egg and Jubilee using her powers. Bryan Singer said in an interview he wanted more of Jubilee — well, dude, you’re the director, give her some more screen time, then! Hello! The good news is that the scene will be in the Blu-Ray.
Psylocke: She goes on both lists because the bad is that she didn’t get enough screen time!
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Danger Room scene: Another big time missed opportunity!! Mystique is the new team leader (or whatever) and we see the Danger Room unfold. Then we see — Sentinels?! The crappy Sentinels from Days of Future Past! Ughhh!! LOL! How epic would it have been if they showed the Sentinels from the comics! Instead, Singer uses his crappy version that is cousins with the Dyson vacuum cleaner. More piss-poor special effects from these guys! Inexcusable!
We hate this:
Love this:
Post-Credit scene: Haven’t these guys learned anything from Marvel Studios? You go out with a BANG! not a whimper. The post-credit scene revealed the involvement of Essex Corp, which we are to presume is Mr. Sinister; however, I felt like the reason they revealed so little is because they aren’t sure what’s next. I thought it was rather lackluster and lame.
On the Fence:
Havok’s death: Is he really dead? With Mr. Sinister teased, it’s possible Havok may have somehow survived.
Mystique: Hey, it’s Jennifer Lawrence, so she has to be the leader of the movie, right?
Anything I missed? Let me know in the comments below.
Following Hugh Jackman, who will be the new Wolverine?
Well, my pick of Tom Hardy may have taken a hit as it’s learned Bryan Singer pitched the female version of Wolverine, X-23, to Fox.
Fandango caught up with Bryan Singer who also let it be known he pitched a version of X-Force, that Simon Kinberg is working on an X-Force script, and that following X-Men: Apocalypse, he won’t have much to do with the X-Men universe as he will be working on 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.
Singer did previousy state that if he is going to continue on with the X-Men universe, he wants the next movie to be set in space.
Here is what Singer had to say about X-Force and X-23:
“I have discussed that with the studio,” Singer reveals. “I actually initially pitched the X-Force and the female.”
“Simon [Kinberg] is in the earliest script stage, so that’s kind of where that stands, and we’ll see how it evolves,” he says.
Regarding an eventual X-Men movie that, similar to Marvel, features all the X-Men universe characters (X-Men, Deadpool, X-Force, etc), Singer said:
“But it has to be done right,” he cautions. “Anytime you throw all these characters together to hit a start date, it can make a lot of money, but it can also be a clusterf**k. To me, it has to be done with a lot of care. These things can get overwhelming, and if a character doesn’t belong in a movie, don’t use him. If the tone can still maintain itself, I’m all for it. What I’m not for is throwing a bunch of characters together and hoping it works.”
In the comics, X-23 was cloned from Wolverine DNA and brought up in the Weapon X program to kill Wolverine; however, she ended up joining the X-Men where Wolverine became a father-figure to her.
A few weeks ago saw the Channing Tatum Gambit movie pulled from Fox Studios’ release schedule with the reason cited due to script rewrites.
Now while doing press for X-Men: Apocalypse, writer/producer Simon Kinberg confirms they are still working on the script and hopes Gambit will film by the end of this year or at the beginning of 2017.
Via Flicking Myth:
“We’ve got to get the script right. We just didn’t get the script to the place where we all thought the movie deserved. So we’re still working on the script. We’re very close, actually, to being done with the script. And the hope is that Channing [Tatum] has a couple of movies he has to shoot, but that we would shoot at the end of this year, or the beginning of next year.”
“It’s looking really good. I’m not going to say anything about it content-wise. I think one of the things that I’ve learnt on all these movies – and maybe the lesson was best learned for me on Deadpool – is the most important thing is getting the tone and the voice right. That the storytelling, the actual narrative, the plots are sort of interchangeable and disposable, ultimately.”
“…we’ve really tried to do with Gambit is make sure that we get the voice of that character right and the tone of the comics 100% on the page. It’s a very unique tone. It’s unique from Deadpool, it’s unique from the X-Men. It’s a heist movie that we’ve never done in these kinds of films before. He’s a con-man. And so that’s really where we’ve spent our time.”
“There was a moment when we were going to shoot the movie at the beginning of this year, and then we felt like it just wasn’t ready. Knowing, hoping, that Gambit is like what Deadpool was – the start of a new franchise within the X-Men universe – we want to make sure we get it right.”
Following last year’s Fantastic Four box office disaster, it’s learned that writer/producer Simon Kinberg still wants to do a sequel.
It probably should be noted Fox basically has to do another Fantastic Four film, otherwise the rights revert back to Marvel Studios, which is why they did the 2015 movie last year.
Via Den of Geek:
“We want to make another ‘Fantastic Four’ movie. We love that cast – I mean if I were to say to you now Michael B Jordan and Miles Teller, and Kate [Mara] and Jamie [Bell] are great actors – we love that cast. I love the comic, I mean I love it almost as much as X-Men. We’re working really hard on figuring that out. Nothing would make me happier than the world embracing a ‘Fantastic Four’ movie. We’ll try to be truer to the essence of the tone of Fantastic Four, which is completely – well, not completely, but largely – distinct from the X-Men, which is brighter, funner, more optimistic tone. I think we tried to make a darker ‘Fantastic Four’ movie, which seemed like a radical idea but we were kind of messing with the DNA of the actual comic instead of trusting the DNA of the comic.”
Interstingly enough, the Josh Trank script and cut of the movie has been said to be exactly that — brighter and funner. The release of Fantastic Four saw controvery as Trank tweeted out he wasn’t happy with the final cut of Fantastic Four, suggesting it wasn’t his version.
Kinberg, who rewrote Trank’s script, went on to admit they didn’t do a good job.
“We didn’t make a good movie and the world voted, and I think they probably voted correctly. And you can’t make a good movie every time out – not everybody does. We actually have a pretty good batting average, all things considered. But I think we made many mistakes when we made that movie – mistakes that we learned from and we wouldn’t repeat.”
It remains to be seen whether or not the cast will be back for a Fantastic Four sequel as some of them said they didn’t think they would be returning, and it’s also learned Michael B. Jordan has been cast in Marvel’s Black Panther movie.
Yes. X-Men: Apocalypse does have a post-credit scene.
Writer/producer Simon Kinberg confirmed a post-credit scene.
Slight spoiler/tease follows (nothing too specific) from Kinberg:
“It’s a nod toward potentially a lot of different movies. I mean certainly the Wolverine movie is related to what happens at the end of it, but there’s also another character that’s introduced, at least in name, in the tag and he could show up in any host of different X-Men films. Maybe a Gambit movie, maybe another X-Men movie.”
(via collider)
“X-Men: Apocalypse” has a May 27, 2016 release directed by Bryan Singer starring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Oscar Isaac, Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne, Tye Sheridan, Sophie Turner, Olivia Munn, Lucas Till, Evan Peters, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Alexandra Shipp, Josh Helman, Lana Condor & Ben Hardy.
Synopsis:
Following the critically acclaimed global smash hit X-Men: Days of Future Past, director Bryan Singer returns with X-MEN: APOCALYPSE. Since the dawn of civilization, he was worshipped as a god. Apocalypse, the first and most powerful mutant from Marvel’s X-Men universe, amassed the powers of many other mutants, becoming immortal and invincible. Upon awakening after thousands of years, he is disillusioned with the world as he finds it and recruits a team of powerful mutants, including a disheartened Magneto (Michael Fassbender), to cleanse mankind and create a new world order, over which he will reign. As the fate of the Earth hangs in the balance, Raven (Jennifer Lawrence) with the help of Professor X (James McAvoy) must lead a team of young X-Men to stop their greatest nemesis and save mankind from complete destruction.
It’s learned Hugh Jackman’s final Wolverine movie has begun filming and will be rated-R.
Collider caught up with Simon Kinberg at a press event for X-Men: Apocalypse where Kinberg offered the following:
“It’s a very radical, bold, different Wolverine than you’ve ever seen in any of these movies.”
“I’m not sure what I’m allowed to say about that. I will agree with you that Patrick Stewart was rumored to be a part of that film. It takes place in the future, and as you and others have reported, it is an R-rated movie. It’s violent, it’s kind of like a western in its tone. It’s just a very cool, different film.”
The untitled Wolverine movie has a March 3, 2017 release directed by James Mangold also starring Richard E. Grant, Stephen Merchant and Eriq Lasalle.
Hugh Jackman is also heavily speculated for an appearance in X-Men: Apocalypse, which hits May 27th.
Following Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn stating not to believe the rumors about Fox and Disney, now Deadpool director Tim Miller and executive producer Simon Kinberg say more of the same.
Miller and Kinberg spoke with CBR, where Miller notes he doesn’t think “anybody would seriously consider it” due to the legal issues and such.
Miller: I’m ready for it, but the studios are not ready for it.
Kinberg: We would love it. I mean, Tim and I talked about it quite a bit. We grew up on comics that did it all the time, quite freely. Not just within the Marvel Universe, but outside the Marvel Universe. So it’d be rad to see it. Those decisions are made by people at a much higher part of the food chain than Tim and I — we just go execute it.
But yeah, we would love it, and we certainly each have a really good relationship with Kevin Feige. Maybe one day there’s a sit-down, “Godfather”-style dinner where we could broker a deal. It’d be cool.
Miller: I honestly can say, as an adult who works in this industry, you certainly can see all the reasons why it doesn’t happen. The corporate inertia, just the lawyering of that deal alone is so daunting that I don’t think anybody would seriously consider it.
But as a fan, you just want to go, “Fuck man! Why can’t I see that?” Because that’s what I got in comic books. What’s more, they had DC/Marvel crossover events that were just stupendous. On a creative level, you just want to say that comic books is just a huge world. I read Marvel, and I read DC, and I read Image, and I read small independent publishers. I’ve got a “Goon” comic book from Dark Horse. I love all of that stuff. To me, it’s all one big world.
The previous Avengers and X-Men rumor stated a crossover movie was happening in 2020, with a second rumor stating the X-Men was going to be rebooted within the MCU following X-Men: Apocalypse.
Both Deadpool director Tim Miller and executive producer/writer of the X-Men movies Simon Kinberg talk about the potential of an Avengers and X-Men Marvel crossover.
“I would love to some day in part heal the rift between the world of X-Men and the world of Avengers,” Tim Miller told Crave Online.
“Yeah, I think we all would,” Simon Kinberg added. “There’s so much crossover in the comics it would be neat to one day be able see those characters share a movie.”
“Kevin [Feige] is so awesome,” Miller said. “Did you see my little pizza box in one of the scenes? ‘Feige’s Famous Pizza’ — that was my little.. trying to bring these worlds together.”
“Both of us are actually quite close with Kevin and have a profound amount of respect for what he does,” Kinberg offered. “And it would be fun to all team up one day, somehow, together, if that could work.”
“I think it’s a super smart move with Spider-Man. I mean, he’s great,” Miller said.
Miller also offered a resounding “no” when asked if he would like Gwenpool (good answer).
Regarding an X-Men and Avengers crossover, the latest rumor states that it’s happening after X-Men: Apocalypse with a movie possibly coming in 2020.
It also probably helps that long time X-Men producer Lauren Schuler Donner also happens to be friends with Feige as well as the two have worked together in the past.
Keep your fingers crossed.
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Fox is currently developing two new TV series based on X-Men properties with Hellfire Club and Legion.
Now we get some details from X-Men writer/producer Simon Kinberg about the series as well as Gambit.
Regarding Gambit, Kinberg describes it as a “heist movie and a sexy thriller in a way.”
Kinberg told Collider the following about Legion and Hellfire Club, going so far as to compare Legion to Breaking Bad (yes, Kinberg was involved with Fantastic Four).
“Legion and Hellfire are both super active. Hellfire we’re hoping to be shooting at the beginning of next year, the pilot. It’s been extraordinary working with Noah Hawley [on Legion], who I think is a straight up genius. Actually the idea forLegion, it began in conversations with Lauren Schuler Donnerand Bryan Singer and Noah me, but I remember I was actually in Moscow last year about to go into a dinner, I was there for the Days of Future Past premiere, and I was sitting in a car outside a restaurant about to go into dinner. It was really early on in the process, like one of the first conversations, and Noah and I were on a call just the two of us just riffing ideas, and I was sitting outside what I thought was gonna be like a 10 minute call and I ended up sitting out there for three and a half hours, missing the dinner. Everybody had not only had the dinner but went home, and I just got off that call being like, ‘It’s midnight in Moscow but we have to make this show with this guy because he’s so brilliant.’ So that’s really ramping up now, the production’s ramping up to start shooting at the beginning of the year with FX.”
“I mean the thing that’s cool and that’s the hope in branching out to TV is that we can tell these X-Men stories in a slightly different way and even with a slightly different tone. It’s one of the thing we’re kind of doing in the different movie franchises. I mean Deadpool obviously has a very different, almost antithetical tone to the mainline X-Men movies. The X-Men movies are dramatic and almost operatic, whereas Deadpool is irreverent and hysterical and sort of a dirty R-rated comedy in many ways. And Gambit will have its own different flavor and tone to it, will be more of like a heist movie and a sexy thriller in a way. So the TV shows give us an opportunity to go even further and certainly what I’m seeing on Legion with Noah and FX is an intent to do something completely original in the genre, in some ways to sort of blow up the paradigm of comic book or superhero stories and almost do our Breaking Bad of superhero stories.”
“The Hellfire script we have an amazing writing team, really two writing teams working together on it, and also that will shoot next year.”
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About a week ago saw Bryan Singer tease that the X-Men: Apocalypse trailer will be released soon, and now it’s learned the trailer will be attached to Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
X-Men producer and writer Simon Kinberg confirmed to Collider that the X-Men: Apocalypse trailer will be released in December attached to Star Wars.
“I can in fact confirm that information. Our first trailer will be on Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It’s our first thing out there so it is somewhat of a teaser but it’s certainly longer than a minute and it has a ton of cool stuff in it.”
It’s also been said the Captain America: Civil War trailer will be attached to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and recently Batman producer Charles Roven hinted a new Batman Vs. Superman trailer may be attached to Star Wars as well.
The X-Men: Apocalypse Comic-Con trailer has leaked online as well.
“X-Men: Apocalypse” has a May 27, 2016 release directed by Bryan Singer starring Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult, Evan Peters, Ian McKellen, Rose Byrne, Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan, Alexandra Shipp and Oscar Isaac.
It was previously stated that Fox and Marvel had been at odds over the Marvel-licensed characters which includes the X-Men and Fantastic Four. Reportedly it got so heated that eccentric Marvel CEO Ike Perlmutter ordered the cancellation of the various comic books and movie-related merchandise. The cast of the Fantastic Four movie was even blown
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Suffice to say there has just be a tad bit of outcry regarding the look of Oscar Isaac’s Apocalypse in X-Men: Apocalypse.
When the first images were released the internet exploded with comparisons to the Power Rangers bad guy, Ivan Oooze.
And I think rightfully so.
Honestly, I can’t believe how someone could be a part of a multi-million dollar movie and actually approve of the look.
Yeah, it’s that bad.
Now the latest is that MTV caught up with writer and producer Simon Kinberg – who also worked on Fantastic Four – asking what’s up with Apocalypse’s costume. Here’s what he had to say:
I feel like we have been, the ’X-Men’ franchise, has been growing a little bit more into science fiction. I think ’Days of Future Past’ with time travel and the Sentinels took us into a slightly broader, more science fiction world than the films had occupied in the past,” he said. “We felt like the movies were ready for something that was slightly more, let’s say, cosmic. Once we made the decision for Apocalypse to be the villain at the center of the movie, we wanted to be true to the comics, which are sort of, like you, say, not costume, but it’s not just a guy in a helmet. It is more cosmic.”
First, Kinberg mentioning the Sentinels in X-Men: Days Of Future Past isn’t a good sign in my book as their designs in the movie were pretty bad as well. The older ones were akin to some kind of 1970s dryer, and the future versions were straight out of Thor. Kinberg actually says they want to be true to the comics — but they never are; not with the X-Men costumes, not with Wolverine, the Sentinels, and definitely not with Apocalypse. Three strikes, you’re out, dude. Wait, that’s at least four.
Kinberg does say the look of Apocalypse in the movie is based on cosmic. That’s rather interesting as there was a rumor a while back that Apocalypse himself was actually alien (which Singer debunked); however, Kinberg may be hinting toward Apocalypse using the Celestials tech that’s used in the comics. I will say, that Kinberg calling the look of the Apocalypse costume “cosmic” comes off as insulting coming from a cosmic fan.
Fans have also been wondering if Apocalypse will change his size in the movie. An interview a while back with Oscar Isaac saw mention they are going to make it their own thing (which is never good), which seemed to insinuate Apocalypse won’t be all that large in nature.
We had to do some adjustments here and there and be like, alright, maybe this is too alien. He also is someone who people would want to follow and not just be terrified of. So the balance, and then making sure that there’s some great elements from the comic but also making our own thing as well. In the comic, he generally is like 12 feet, 600 pounds.
While there is a lot of negative talk surrounding the look of Apocalypse, in Singer and Kinberg’s defense, there were similar thoughts surrounding Evan Peters’ Quicksilver in X-Men: Days Of Future Past, and we all know Quicksilver’s scene stole the show.
“X-Men: Apocalypse” has a May 27, 2016 release directed by Bryan Singer starring Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult, Evan Peters, Ian McKellen, Rose Byrne, Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan, Alexandra Shipp and Oscar Isaac.
Though initially Fox was hesitant about green lighting Deadpool, now there are actually talks about doing a sequel before the movie is even released.
The Collider caught up with producer Simon Kinberg who lets it be known he has seen a rough cut, and also that they have talked about a sequel. You can check out the video above, with some of the details following:
On Deadpool rough cut:
I have seen a rough cut of Deadpool and it’s fantastic. It’s a really good movie. It delivers on the promise of the trailer… We really committed and leaned into it being R-rated. It’s just darker and edgier and weirder in the best way—like Deadpool should be—than any other movie in the genre.
On a potential Deadpool sequel:
We certainly are talking about the sequel—we were talking about the sequel while we were making the movie just because when you make a film like this that’s from a serialized source material, you hope that it’s the first of many… But yeah [Fox is] feeling good about it, we’re all feeling really proud of it, so hopefully before it comes out we will be well into the process of figuring out a sequel.
On the use of Cable in the Deadpool sequel:
It’s certainly come up because he’s such a big character in the world. And it’s a character that I’ve always wanted to do in one form or another, we talked about Cable actually in Days of Future Past at one point. But yeah we’re in such the early stages of sequel talk it would be genuinely premature for me to say whether or not he was gonna be in it.
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“Deadpool” has a February 12, 2016 release directed by Tim Miller starring Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool, TJ Miller as Weasel, Gina Carano as Angel Dust, Brianna Hildebrand as Negasonic Teenage Warhead, Morena Baccarin as Copycat and Ed Skrein as Ajax.
Synopsis:
Based upon Marvel Comics’ most unconventional anti-hero, DEADPOOL tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.
Deadpool Trailer:
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Prior to the release of the Fantastic Four reboot, Fox Studios announced the sequel for a 2017 release; however, seeing how poorly the movie did this Summer at the box office, it’s possible the sequel won’t happen.
Writer and producer Simon Kinberg, who worked on Fantastic Four as well as the X-Men movies and Star Wars, tells MTV at this weekend’s Toronto Film Festival that he still wants Fantastic Four 2 to happen.
“I’m really focused on the next one,” Kinberg said.
Interestingly enough, Kinberg remarks he was on set every day for filming of Fantastic Four and the thought they made a great movie — a similar sentiment to the Tweet sent out by director Josh Trank that went viral in which Trank stated he had a fantastic version a year ago.
“You’re waking up every morning being like, I want to go make a great movie. It was an opportunity to do that. I do believe there is a great Fantastic Four movie that we’ve made with that cast. So I’m gonna figure out what that is,” Kinberg offered with mention they are still looking ahead at a sequel. “We’re figuring out what that movie would be. I’d like that to happen.”
Kinberg continues with mention he still has yet to fully explore why Fantastic Four bombed.
“I was most disappointed that fans didn’t like it. I care more about them than I do anyone else,” Kinberg said. “But I haven’t done a full deep dive on it. Do I think it was unfairly treated? I don’t know.”
Kate Mara also weighs in that while she is not sure if FF 2 will happen, she wouldn’t mind returning.
“[It’s] unlikely that [a sequel] will happen, but I would love to [do one]. I would love to play Sue Storm in a movie that everybody loves. That would be great,” she said.
Currently, Fantastic Four has a worldwide gross of just over $160 million; the film is rated at 9% over at Rotten Tomatoes.
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With Fantastic Four only about two months away, we hear from Simon Kinberg and Josh Trank as they talk about the controversy surrounding the casting of the movie.
What’s interesting is not only do the two talk about Michael B. Jordan being cast as Johnny Storm, but also Jamie Bell as Ben Grimm, aka The Thing.
“I knew it was going to get ugly,” Trank told the LA Times, who himself is a part of a mixed family. “I get it. I have a lot of friends who are older than me who are comic fans and it’s really hard for them to be on board with a change like that. Fantastic Four has been theirs for longer than I’ve been alive. It hasn’t been mine.”
Tranks continues with the argument that Fantastic Four is more similar to the real world.
“… you can’t just keep telling it the same way over and over again,” Trank offered. “And I think it only helps the world to be more honest with young kids, to show them the world that they go walk outside and see.”
Now regarding Jamie Bell as The Thing, Simon Kingberg steps in to offer an explanation.
“The change of Jamie as Ben being a smaller guy instead of a bigger guy, for example, was for a purpose,” Kinberg explained. “It’s more dramatic when that character becomes a huge rock creature – that’s a bigger transformation. The notion of a working-class tough guy who’s been pushed around by his bigger brothers his whole life seemed like a more interesting character than the guy who started as a football player and just ended up being 4 inches taller.”
Kinberg continues by comparing the Fantastic Four casting to that of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine.
“If you look at Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, everybody was upset at first that Wolverine was tall and now nobody can imagine anybody else other than Hugh Jackman playing Wolverine.”
“Fantastic Four” has an August 7, 2015 release directed by Josh Trank from a screenplay by Jeremy Slater, Simon Kinberg and Josh Trank; produced by Matthew Vaughn, Simon Kinberg, Hutch Parker, Robert Kulzar and Gregory Goodman; starring: Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell and Toby Kebbell.
Synopsis:
FANTASTIC FOUR, a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.
Trailer:
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It’s learned Fox Studios is making a new X-Men standalone spinoff movie with New Mutants, which will have Josh Boone as director.
Deadline reports, similar to its comic book counterpart, New Mutants introduces a new crop of mutant characters born with special powers.
Boone will co-writing the project with Knate Gwaltney, and Simon Kinberg will produce along with X-Men staple Lauren Shuler Donner.
Josh Boone was responsible for last year’s smash hit The Fault in Our Stars, which grossed over $300 million on a $12 million budget.
Boone was also said to be a contender for the Marvel/Sony live-action Spider-Man reboot. Boone is supposed to direct The Vampire Chronicles next for Universal followed by The Stand; the article mentions New Mutants looks to be a few years away.
“We’re so excited to explore this new part of the X-Men universe,” Simon Kinberg said. “And so excited to do it with Josh, who is uniquely suited to tell this story about young characters.”
In addition to New Mutants, Simon Kinberg and Fox are currently filming X-Men: Apocalypse and Deadpool; a sequel to The Wolverine is in the works with James Mangold and Hugh Jackman, and a Gambit movie is being planned starring Channing Tatum. Fantastic Four hits this Summer as well.
The fan-favorite Marvel Comics character Cable is a part of the New Mutants as is Deadpool and Domino. Comic book creator Rob Liefeld, who introduced the characters on the team in 1989, offered some enthusiastic tweets about the New Mutants movie. It should be noted it’s unclear if the New Mutants movie will be based on Liefeld’s best-selling run.
No idea if this is the “almost cancelled” low selling New Mutants cast or the best selling run I helmed. Sorry.
— robertliefeld (@robertliefeld) May 13, 2015
Glad to see Fox expand their X-Men brand… Hopefully they pick the best path, really like to see them compete on Marvel’s level.
— robertliefeld (@robertliefeld) May 13, 2015
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It’s learned the second Star Wars spinoff will feature an origin story for Boba Fett.
The Wrap reports Simon Kinberg is heavily involved in the project, which recently saw Josh Trank depart rumored to due problems on the set of Fantastic Four.
Disney hasn’t confirmed the news.
The second Star Wars spinoff, which Disney is referring to as Anthology movies, is due out in 2018.
Gareth Edwards is directing the first anthology, Star Wars: Rogue One, which will star Felicity Jones, Ben Mendelsohn and Riz Ahmed, and has a December 2016 release date.
Abrams launches the new Star Wars this December with Force Awakens.
Scans surfaced yesterday from Empire Magazine featuring X-Men: Apocalypse concept art.
Now the images have officially been released, with new details from director Bryan Singer and producer/writer Simon Kinberg.
“It’s a big monster of a movie,” Singer offered to Empire. “The stakes are so high and global and the villain is so mythic. It’s definitely an X-Men movie, but it really feels different.”
“They’re as much a part of the movie as our main cast,” Kinberg added regarding the new additions of Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan and Alexandra Shipp. “Scott is not yet the squeaky-clean leader. Storm is a troubled character who is going down the wrong path in life. And Jean is complex, interesting and not fully mature. It’s fun to see someone struggling with their powers when you know one day they’ll become the most powerful person in the world.”
“X-Men: Apocalypse” has a May 27, 2016 release directed by Bryan Singer starring Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult, Evan Peters, Channing Tatum, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Rose Byrne, Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan, Alexandra Shipp and Oscar Issac.
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Scans from the latest issue of Empire Magazine have landed online giving a look at more concept art for X-Men: Apocalypse.
We see a peek at the X-Jet, with what looks to be Moira MacTaggert, Hank McCoy and James McAvoy pictured; Simon Kinberg offers: “Moira is back in a big way. This is a chance to do something we haven’t seen before – a proper Charles Xavier love story.”
Angel art is also featured with Singer teasing: “He’s not a very nice angel. He doesn’t live up to the name.”
An image of Xavier with Cerebro, with Singer laughing: “He’ll have hair in the movie. That’s all I’ll say!”
Another image features what looks to be possibly an origin scene for the villain of the movie, Apocalypse. Singer offers not all of the movie is set in 1983: “There are sequences that take place in the ancient times as well. I’ve always had a deep fascination with religious history, with ancient history.”
“X-Men: Apocalypse” has a May 27, 2016 release directed by Bryan Singer starring Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult, Evan Peters, Channing Tatum, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Rose Byrne, Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan, Alexandra Shipp and Oscar Issac.
Check out our first look a Kodi Smit-McPhee as Nightcrawler in X-Men: Apocalypse as Fox released a short teaser with Nightcrawler transporting.
Simon Kinberg also announced filming has begun on the movie as as we see Return of the Jedi is playing in theaters; X-Men: Apocalypse takes place in the 80s.
Bryan Singer also uploaded more images from his D.C. trip.
Update: New concept art and a first look at the young Jeany Grey and Cyclops has also hit the net.
“X-Men: Apocalypse” has a May 27, 2016 release directed by Bryan Singer starring Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult, Evan Peters, Channing Tatum, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Rose Byrne, Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan, Alexandra Shipp and Oscar Issac.
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Day 1 of the Apocalypse…. Back to the 80s…. pic.twitter.com/0ecjnXX23l
— Simon Kinberg (@Kinberg) April 27, 2015