I’m not a comics guy, rather someone that became a superhero film fan dating to the Batman films 30 years ago and the X-Men films that came 10 years later. The latter became my passion. Don’t care about perfect timelines & continuity. Plenty of comic experts have exposed MCU of the same things. And MCU’s rapidly accelerating problem is too many films + too many characters.
And that is why the X-Men are being ignored. The landscape is too filled, to busy, chaotic. Bottom line, Disney’s ego taking over X-Men has effectively killed interest. Most fans of the Fox X-Men have walked away altogether. I’m reaching that point. What is SO sad is this never had to be a problem to begin with.
The X-Men franchise had wonderful A-list actors and a dynamic team of producers, writers and directors. All Dusney had to do was bring the entire operation into the fold, have an “orientation day” aimed at fixing the issues people had with the X films and make just keep-making-the-films! Keep them alive, relevant, and at some point start having “crossovers”…but leave it at that.
I was a rebel when I first promoted this idea before the Fox “takeover”. (NOTE: understand “21st Century Fox” exists, just Disney owns it. It’s not gone.) Took some time but eventually writers began suggesting exactly this. Keep the creative teams, keep the actors, focus on blending Deadpool into X-Men, and make the X-Men universe more adult themed.
Deadpool 3 could have stayed on track. Disney did not have to tell Fox to shred the planned Dark Phoenix trilogy down to one flick. New Mutants could have been continued in some form. This “introduction & integration” plan was doomed. Even Feige can juggle so much at one time.
It’s a tragedy that almost all the X film actors would have been happy to keep up their roles but they’ve all given up. No one calls them. Even Ryan Reynolds has spoken of being in the dark and his phone doesn’t ring. Meanwhile, hard as it is to believe, Reynolds is getting older. Deadpool 2 was shot FIVE years ago. Evan Peter’s, the youthful fan favorite used by MCU to toy with X fans isn’t a kid.
Probably time to declare X-Men dead. It’s a miracle DP 3 is in any state of production, but it will be the last of those films.
In the end, us X-Men fans will just be ex-fans. I’m already losing interest. Starting with Eternals I haven’t seen a film in a theater. My dwindling interest has been past to my son, who just graduated high school, loved MCU and X-Men, but Dark Phoenix was the last film he ever saw. My wife saw End Game and has lost interest. I predicted all of this years ago.
People think Feige is a genius. Not me. He destroyed the X-Men. And I’d wager his desperate attempts to bring in the characters will be very limited, awkward and a total failure.
You’re not an X-Men fan, you’re a movie fan. No real fan of the characters could seriously say they thought those movies anything other than complete sh!t.
It’s because Disney I too woke. Some sjw said it was inappropriate to have the word men in the title🙈 Disney thinks they can make us all forget the team is calledx-MEN. I’m suprised it’s not just a movie about trannies called ex-men. That seems like Disney’s mo rn
Comments for Marvel Might Be Abandoning ‘X-Men’ Reboot
Tomas.x
I’m not a comics guy, rather someone that became a superhero film fan dating to the Batman films 30 years ago and the X-Men films that came 10 years later. The latter became my passion. Don’t care about perfect timelines & continuity. Plenty of comic experts have exposed MCU of the same things. And MCU’s rapidly accelerating problem is too many films + too many characters.
And that is why the X-Men are being ignored. The landscape is too filled, to busy, chaotic. Bottom line, Disney’s ego taking over X-Men has effectively killed interest. Most fans of the Fox X-Men have walked away altogether. I’m reaching that point. What is SO sad is this never had to be a problem to begin with.
The X-Men franchise had wonderful A-list actors and a dynamic team of producers, writers and directors. All Dusney had to do was bring the entire operation into the fold, have an “orientation day” aimed at fixing the issues people had with the X films and make just keep-making-the-films! Keep them alive, relevant, and at some point start having “crossovers”…but leave it at that.
I was a rebel when I first promoted this idea before the Fox “takeover”. (NOTE: understand “21st Century Fox” exists, just Disney owns it. It’s not gone.) Took some time but eventually writers began suggesting exactly this. Keep the creative teams, keep the actors, focus on blending Deadpool into X-Men, and make the X-Men universe more adult themed.
Deadpool 3 could have stayed on track. Disney did not have to tell Fox to shred the planned Dark Phoenix trilogy down to one flick. New Mutants could have been continued in some form. This “introduction & integration” plan was doomed. Even Feige can juggle so much at one time.
It’s a tragedy that almost all the X film actors would have been happy to keep up their roles but they’ve all given up. No one calls them. Even Ryan Reynolds has spoken of being in the dark and his phone doesn’t ring. Meanwhile, hard as it is to believe, Reynolds is getting older. Deadpool 2 was shot FIVE years ago. Evan Peter’s, the youthful fan favorite used by MCU to toy with X fans isn’t a kid.
Probably time to declare X-Men dead. It’s a miracle DP 3 is in any state of production, but it will be the last of those films.
In the end, us X-Men fans will just be ex-fans. I’m already losing interest. Starting with Eternals I haven’t seen a film in a theater. My dwindling interest has been past to my son, who just graduated high school, loved MCU and X-Men, but Dark Phoenix was the last film he ever saw. My wife saw End Game and has lost interest. I predicted all of this years ago.
People think Feige is a genius. Not me. He destroyed the X-Men. And I’d wager his desperate attempts to bring in the characters will be very limited, awkward and a total failure.
Rormachine
You’re not an X-Men fan, you’re a movie fan. No real fan of the characters could seriously say they thought those movies anything other than complete sh!t.
Jacob Svetlik
It’s because Disney I too woke. Some sjw said it was inappropriate to have the word men in the title🙈 Disney thinks they can make us all forget the team is calledx-MEN. I’m suprised it’s not just a movie about trannies called ex-men. That seems like Disney’s mo rn
Art
I agree. Calling it The Mutants turns me off. I’m 39 years old. I love XMen
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