Despite the monumental success of Fox’s ( ) X-Men franchise across 13 films, the series eventually petered out and is now being resurrected under the auspices of Disney and Marvel. At the time of writing, it’s still not entirely clear what the MCU’s main plan is for revamping its merry mutants. However, the return of Hugh Jackman in Deadpool & Wolverine suggests that Marvel won’t be cutting all ties to what came before.
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The two decades in which Fox produced films de X-Men led to a good portion of abandoned long-awaited projects. Others offered little more than the promise of potential. In any case, these are the ten best X-Men that will never see the light.
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And X-Men Origins: In April 2007, Fox hired longtime comic book writer David S. Goyer to direct the film, initially set between 1939 and 1955, following Magneto’s survival at Auschwitz and beyond.
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What could have become a powerful counterpoint to the contemporary and notable Magneto’s Will by Greg Pak and Carmine Di Giandomenico ended up crashing and burning. First, the 2007-2008 Screenwriters Guild of America strike delayed the project. Then, the mediocre premiere of Origins: Wolverine made the studio reflect. Once X-Men: First Class hit theaters, Fox canned Magneto’s solo film with many of his ideas incorporated into First Class.
9 X4 evolved into a soft reset
At a Fox press event in September 2009, the producer of X-Men Lauren Shuler Donner announced that the studio was “cooking up plans” for a directed sequel to X-Men: The Last Stand. At that time, the studio was already immersed in the development process of X-Men : First Class but it wasn’t the movie Lauren was referring to.
Instead, Lauren was discussing a possible release prepared by the series’ former director, Bryan Singer, that would continue the X-Men story after the premiere of First Class. Two years later, Donner revealed the film’s active development: “We took the treatment to Fox, and they loved it… And X4 leads into X5.” That approach would end up bearing fruit in a modified version, which would become a continuation of both the original series and First Class en forma de X-Men: Days of Future Past.
8 The New Mutants was supposed to be part of a trilogy
When Josh Boone and Knate Lee released The New Mutants, They imagined a horror trilogy based on cult characters. After the release of the original, New Mutants: Brasilwhich would focus on Roberto da Costa and his fellow New Mutants fighting their estranged father (played by Antonio Banderas!) in Brazil.
The third and final installment of the trilogy would be New Mutants: Inferno, an adaptation of the infamous X-Men crossover with Magik, played by Anya Taylor-Joy, as the protagonist. Unfortunately, the $50 million that Los Nuevos raised Mutants at the national box office they put an end to those plans.
7 Kitty Pryde Was Almost Going Solo Before The Movie Disappeared Related of the team.
After the successful premieres of Deadpool y Loganearly 2019 was plagued with rumors about the evolution of the franchise X-Men Fox. One of those tasty morsels involved the possibility of a Kitty Pryde movie directed by Tim Miller, the Dead pool. With the code name of 143this film promised to bring Elliot Page’s version of Kitty Pryde to the big screen and even had the collaboration of the famous X-Men comics writer Brian Michael Bendis.
It was never revealed if this Kitty Pryde solo project focused on a popular story taken directly from the comics, such as Kitty’s possession by the demon ninja Ogun. Instead, the project sadly faded away, and according to Tim Miller, the merger with Disney officially killed the film. During an interview with ComicBook.com, Miller said, “I love the X-Men. I don’t expect Marvel to call me and say, ‘Come do the my Kitty Pryde movie. Damn, I love that movie. Now it will never be made.”
6 X-Force almost exploded in theaters
The fan-favorite X-Men spinoff, X-Force, almost hit the big screen several times. Following Rick Remender’s acclaimed reinvention of the team in the pages of Uncanny X-ForceIn July 2013, filmmaker Jeff Wadlow was hired to write and direct an adaptation of the franchise. After the success of Deadpool In 2016, Ryan Reynolds even suggested that he would appear in X-Force.
In May 2016, Simon Kinberg contributed a rewrite to the script. The following year, Joe Carnahan replaced Jeff Wadlow as the film’s director, who, in turn, was replaced by Drew Goddard the following year. This game of musical chairs disrupted the film’s pre-production process, and soon enough, Disney was negotiating to buy back the X-Men properties, ending this version of X-Force. However, it must be said that Ryan Reynolds refuses to let the idea die.
5 Gambit almost reinvented Ragin’ Cajun
Channing Tatum has reportedly been circling the Gambit character since X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Unfortunately, his schedule did not allow him to do the casting. Instead, the role of Gambit fell to Taylor Kitsch, whose performance, like the rest of the film, was poorly received. Five years later, Fox was ready to reinvent the character and cast Tatum in the role she had coveted for years in a solo project titled (simply) Gambit.
With a script by Josh Zetumer based on an early story by Chris Claremont, Gambit advanced enough in the process to cast Léa Seydoux and then Lizzy Caplan in the role of Belladonna Bourdeaux during different parts of the film’s production cycle. Daniel Craig even applied for the role of Mister Sinister. Despite this project’s pedigree from the beginning, it never made it out of development hell. Instead, it went through directors such as Rupert Wyatt, Doug Liman and Gore Verbinski before being canceled in May 2019 following Disney’s acquisition of Fox.
Related RUMOR: Channing Tatum to Finally Play Gambit in Deadpool 3 A new rumor claims that Marvel Studios’ Deadpool 3 will feature a cameo by Channing Tatum as fan-favorite X-Men character Gambit. 4 X-23 would have been a direct sequel to Logan
After the critical and box office success of the Wolverine movie “final”, Logan, Fox was considering all of its options regarding continuing the series without Hugh Jackman. In October 2017, the director of LoganJohn Mangold, announced that he was working on a direct sequel to the film centered on Wolverine’s young female clone, X-23, with the character’s original creator, Craig Kyle, hired to write the script.
About a month later, Disney announced its acquisition of Fox’s assets, including the return of the X-Men. Instead of continuing Fox’s mutant universe, Marvel canceled all projects in development to use the characters to grow its Cinematic Universe. As a result, X-23 never came to fruition, and in 2019, Mangold confirmed that the project would never happen.
3 X-Men: Fear the Beast Would Have Been Different Than Any Other X-Men Movie
None of the canceled and scrapped X-Men movies that will never see the light of day is more compelling, exciting, and downright baffling than X-Men: Fear the Beast. Planned as a solo Beast film by Byron Burton, assistant editor John Ottman who edited X-Men: Apocalypsethis film would have been set in the late 80s and was structured as a horror film in the vein of The Thing by John Carpenter. If that premise isn’t enough to make X-Men fans salivate, what is?
In this film, which serves as both a prequel and a sequel to Days of future past, Beast must solve a mystery involving a deadly monster terrorizing people in a remote location that he was responsible for creating while trying to keep his mutation under control. Featuring cameos from Wolverine, Professor Despite presenting a new vision for the franchise, Fox’s architect for the series, Simon Kinberg, refused to read the script and shelved the idea.
2 X-Men: First Class almost had a direct sequel Related X-Men: First Class Director Says Deadpool 3 Will Bring the MCU “Back to Life” Matthew Vaughn believes the long-awaited superhero movie will give the MCU a much-needed “shake.”
Definitely, X-Men: Days of the Future past found a way to thread the needle between being a sequel to both The last battle like First class, but Fox was on the verge of working with Matthew Vaugn to create a direct sequel to First class that would have been set in the 1970s and potentially featured Tom Hardy as a younger version of Wolverine.
Initially conceived as the third part of Vaughn’s trilogy, Fox was so enamored of days of the future past that he decided to immediately move forward with it as a sequel. Thus, the direct sequel of First Class It never got past the planning phase. Vaughn ended up leaving the franchise to focus on another comic, Kingsman.
1 Fantastic Four Vs. X-Men would have been the end of Fox
Although it may not seem like it, Fox had a master plan for its Marvel franchises. That plan was to turn the X-Men and Fantastic Four into massive film franchises in which both sets of heroes would cross paths in one final film to cap off the entire saga. Does it sound familiar to you? It is the same idea that Marvel used at the same time, until the culmination of the first phase of the MCU. Marvel’s idea succeeded beyond their wildest dreams, while Fox’s failed miserably.
So what would it have been about? Fantastic Four Vs. X-Men ? According to Zack Stenz, who worked on the script for First Class along with Ashley Edward Miller, they were hired by Fox to develop an idea that would have reunited the X-Men and the Fantastic Four with other heroes, including Deadpool and Daredevil, under the direction of Paul Greengrass. Described as a free adaptation of the event Civil War From Marvel, the film would have seen the Human Torch cause collateral damage during a mission that sparked a superhero search. The complete and utter failure of the renaissance of Fantastic four by Fox in 2015 relegated this idea to the dustbin of history.
X-Men (Movie)
X-Men is an American superhero film series based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name.
Created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby First movie X-Men Last movie The New Mutants Characters) Wolverine, Storm, Rogue, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Nightcrawler, Mystique, Gambit, Magneto
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