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    Image of BlueBeard BlueBeard
    12/17/09

    In reply to Bryan Singer Takes Another Crack At Retelling The X-Men's Origin
    I thought they said the First Class title was going to be (basically) the new mutants- as in, the first class of Xavier's school to be trained as warriors, as opposed to the current students who are just being educated in a sanctuary.

    Clearly, "First Class" makes more sense as the original 5 X-Men, but how the hell are you going to pull that off now that 2 out of 5 are children? Angel and Iceman were part of the original group with Ms marvel, Beast and Cyclops.

    I'm pretty sure it will not be an origins movie.
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    12/17/09

    In reply to Bryan Singer Takes Another Crack At Retelling The X-Men's Origin
    It would be nice to see something with a bunch of Warren Ellis pseudoscience in it and less Wolverine (and more Cyclops! Cyclops forever! Mebbe Jake Gyllenhaal? or - no one punch me - Zac Efron?).
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    Image of byers byers
    12/17/09

    @Perhaps Not: I do not agree to this no-punch rule.
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    Image of Colander Colander
    12/17/09

    @Perhaps Not: I would punch you, but you're right. Cyclops needs to be a charismatic actor or he'll always appear underused, since the character doesn't have a 'hey look at me!' personality.
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    Image of Jesse Astle Jesse Astle
    12/17/09

    @Perhaps Not: Team Cyclops?
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    Image of icy_one icy_one
    12/17/09

    In reply to Bryan Singer Takes Another Crack At Retelling The X-Men's Origin
    Enver Gjokaj from Dollhouse would be a really good pre-fur Hank McCoy.
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    Image of Susan B. Susan B.
    12/17/09

    @icy_one: Enver Gjokaj from Dollhouse would be a really good ANYTHING.
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    Image of icy_one icy_one
    12/17/09

    @Susan B.: I must admit my motive here is to find work for Enver Gjokaj for my own enjoyment.
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    Image of Susan B. Susan B.
    12/17/09

    @icy_one: I support that agenda, whole-heartedly.
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    Image of AngryEddy AngryEddy
    12/17/09

    In reply to Bryan Singer Takes Another Crack At Retelling The X-Men's Origin
    I can't wait to see how they try to shoehorn Wolverine into this. As we all know, there are no X-Men movies - just a series of Wolverine movies.
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    12/17/09

    In reply to Bryan Singer Takes Another Crack At Retelling The X-Men's Origin
    Help me out as I'm having trouble tracking down the quote, but I believe Xavier, in the movies, referred to one of the main trio (Cyclops, Storm, and Jean...I think Jean) as "one of my first students". X-Men First Class is supposed to be about the first group of students at Xavier's school (according to /Film). So it would make sense to see those three at a very young age. And of course, Wolverine can make an appearance at any age.

    Of course canon counts for nothing, previous movies even less so, but it wouldn't be impossible to imagine that Gambit could be an elder member of the crew, given his place in the Wolverine Origins timeline.
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    Image of tipsymongoose tipsymongoose
    12/17/09

    In reply to Bryan Singer Takes Another Crack At Retelling The X-Men's Origin
    They should just make another sequel that retcons everything that happened in X-men 3.

    I'm less interested in seeing young Cyclops/Storm/etc than I am in seeing some Apocalypse or Cable.
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    Image of Colander Colander
    12/17/09

    @tipsymongoose: Yeah, I'm glad he's back, but I'm sad it's First Class. X3 didn't quite do irrevocable damage--everything (even the supposed deaths) can be rectified in ways that stay true to the comics (introducing Mr Sinister, Apocalypse, and/or the Hellfire Club can solve most of their problems).
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    Image of WestMantooth WestMantooth
    12/17/09

    In reply to Bryan Singer Takes Another Crack At Retelling The X-Men's Origin
    Hopefully, he'll go all out in terms of action this time, but tell a good story.

    Hopefully Dougherty and Harris do a passover of someone else's script.
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    Image of TemporalSword TemporalSword
    12/17/09

    In reply to Bryan Singer Takes Another Crack At Retelling The X-Men's Origin
    While I'm all for Singer to return, the thought of a prequel has me less than excited. He's already managed to set up the team quite well in the first two movies, so what story really needs to be told? I'd rather see a new story, even with a (mostly) new team (yes, we can leave Wolvie out), although I do understand picking up from Ratner's mess would be difficult.
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    Edited by TemporalSword at 12/17/09 6:41 AM TemporalSword was starred TemporalSword was unstarred
    Image of Jonn Jonn
    12/10/09

    In reply to What If Moviemakers Swapped Franchises?
    Cons: Abrams' inability to not have a happy ending

    I like how people complain Joss Whedon has to make his characters miserable, and completely the opposite about Abrams.

    Christopher Nolan's GI Joe
    [words]

    I detect some subtext. Some repressed dislike. I'm not sure what it is, but...
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    Image of DraconisXC DraconisXC
    11/11/09

    In reply to What If Moviemakers Swapped Franchises?
    Sid and Marty Krofft's Crank:

    Pro's: The bizarre melange of drug-addled shaky-cam, psychedelic electro music, and a talking flute will blend fairly well with the initial concept of the film.

    Cons: Jason Statham as a man-sized puppet. #transformers
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    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    11/11/09

    @DraconisXC: starring H.R. Puffnstuff as Jason Statham!? where do i buy my ticket!? #transformers
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    Image of Pants McCracky Pants McCracky
    11/11/09

    In reply to What If Moviemakers Swapped Franchises?
    The only one who doesn't belong on this list is McG. The guy is a competent craftsman, but he has no personal style. There's nothing distinctive about him at all. That's why the only thing you can do with "McG vs Dollhouse" is go with a Charlie's Angels gag. With McG there's no there there. He's in the same class of bland journeyman hack as Brett Ratner. Not that there's anything wrong with that. #transformers
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    11/10/09

    In reply to What If Moviemakers Swapped Franchises?
    Despite the snark, Nolan's G.I. Joe was the best idea in this whole article. I want that movie so bad.

    And The Dark Knight was amazing. :P #transformers
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    Image of SJ_Edwards SJ_Edwards
    11/10/09

    In reply to What If Moviemakers Swapped Franchises?
    Bong Joon-Ho to direct Terminator.
    Hideo Nakata to direct Dollhouse.
    Michael Bay to direct traffic.
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    Edited by SJ_Edwards at 11/10/09 8:32 PM SJ_Edwards was starred SJ_Edwards was unstarred
    Image of Miksho Miksho
    11/11/09

    @SJ_Edwards: Given his love for explosions and crash scenes, should we even be letting him direct cars? #transformers
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    Image of SJ_Edwards SJ_Edwards
    11/11/09

    @Miksho: I was hoping he'd get run over. #transformers
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    Image of Miksho Miksho
    11/11/09

    @SJ_Edwards: He'd make some awesome roadkill. #transformers
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    11/10/09

    In reply to What If Moviemakers Swapped Franchises?
    If McG did Dollhouse would we see breasts ?? #transformers
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    Image of Evdor Evdor
    11/10/09

    @gorehound: Possibly, but it would be in such a way to be completely uninteresting. #transformers
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    11/10/09

    In reply to What If Moviemakers Swapped Franchises?
    Another great article, Graeme. #transformers
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