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'X-Men: Dark Phoenix' to be "grounded"
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Gordon Shumway
Banned
Excuse me! Fan4stic..
Frozenprince
Banned
It's X-Men IN SPAAAAAAACE FFS. Corsair might show up.
CORSAIR.
CORSAIR.
yanipheonu
Member
Literally the opposite of what it should be.
I'd be down if they went full Guardians of the Galaxy with X-Men, honestly.
I'd be down if they went full Guardians of the Galaxy with X-Men, honestly.
Logan was grounded and was the best comic book movie since The Dark Knight.
Frozenprince
Banned
I mean distilling it down it's just "X-Men versus the planet of the bird people"The story that involved these guys?
This is literally what they should do. Can't they at least learn something from Marvel?
Yes, but nobody ever expected Logan to deal with this type of setting in the first place.
Two different types of stories.
digitalrelic
Banned
Great news as far as I'm concerned.
This is X-Men grounded:
And this is X-Men hammy:
I'll fucking take grounded any day of the week.
This is X-Men grounded:
And this is X-Men hammy:
I'll fucking take grounded any day of the week.
TheJollyCorner
Member
One of the big differences right now between the MCU and what FOX is doing. Guardians, Doc Strange, and Thor: Ragnarok should be big, flashing signs saying "HEY! IT'S OK TO GO A LITTLE NUTS WITH COMIC BOOK MOVIES!"... but no... more 'grounded' X-Men with uninspired S&M costumes.
yankeehater
Member
To bad grounded doesn't mean that they got Nolan to work on it. I would love to see what he could do with something like this.
StrangeRoboMemory
Member
We already had a "grounded" version of Dark Phoenix and it was awful. It always sucks when people who actively don't like the source material are involved in an adaptation. Audiences don't mind space opera and far-out fantasy, that's been proven over and over again in terms of box office cash.
LordOfLore
Banned
It reminds me of that new Wasp costume.
Youngfossil
Neo Member
Great news as far as I'm concerned.
This is X-Men grounded:
And this is X-Men hammy:
I'll fucking take grounded any day of the week.
To be far. Logan isnt an xmen movie and it's much easier to do a grounded movie with one Super hero (that only has claws) than a team of supers that can shoot laser and summon tornados.
Frozenprince
Banned
Dark Phoenix takes place in space.
Two completely different kinds of stories.
Might as well not do Dark Phoenix tbh.
Thank god Marvel is giving us the Black order, we need freak alien shit
Of all the storylines you decided to go with 'grounded' on, you pick Dark Phoenix? WTF?
It should be going *huge*. Shit should be like Avengers: Infinity Wars, all out bonkers.
Granted based on Apocalypse I don't think Sophie Turner could carry anything that big, though perhaps a good director could get more out of her. She never had the right look to be Grey, and the acting didn't help.
Logan also had Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart, two legendary actors, as the focal point plus one awesome little girl, and James Mangold had directed some excellent films in the past. Probably not a fair comparison from that front either.
It should be going *huge*. Shit should be like Avengers: Infinity Wars, all out bonkers.
Granted based on Apocalypse I don't think Sophie Turner could carry anything that big, though perhaps a good director could get more out of her. She never had the right look to be Grey, and the acting didn't help.
Logan also had Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart, two legendary actors, as the focal point plus one awesome little girl, and James Mangold had directed some excellent films in the past. Probably not a fair comparison from that front either.
Frozenprince
Banned
I can't get over this. It's bothering me so bad lol.
It is LITERALLY A STORY ABOUT THEM IN SPACE
Frozenprince
Banned
Feige da gawd saving comic books once again.
I'm gonna mark TF out when he gets us a super skrull on the screen.
Sgt. Kabukiman
Banned
This movie is gonna make it hard for those of us stanning for the Foxverse on off-topic, haha. What the fuck were they thinking giving this movie to a first time director? And the X-Men franchise is better off without the Phoenix baggage. Plus, there's no way Sophie Turner can carry that story. She was terrible in the last one.
Oh well, they'll First Class the series again after this one fails and in the meantime, the spin-offs will keep us occupied. Thank god for New Mutants.
Oh well, they'll First Class the series again after this one fails and in the meantime, the spin-offs will keep us occupied. Thank god for New Mutants.
God I love these.
Instead of devouring a star and killing the entire population of a planet, Jean will drain the electricity of a building, causing the people inside to die.
Instead of the Shi'ar empire coming to intervene, it is the local police force.
Lilandra is the mayor of the city that Jean attacked. She comes to put Jean under arrest.
I guess Lilandra's police force could be made up of meta-humans or they have technological enhancements. They come after the x-men team while they are hiding out in a big forest or something.
And Mystique will be Jean's love interest and Cyclops just some background character.
Instead of the Shi'ar empire coming to intervene, it is the local police force.
Lilandra is the mayor of the city that Jean attacked. She comes to put Jean under arrest.
I guess Lilandra's police force could be made up of meta-humans or they have technological enhancements. They come after the x-men team while they are hiding out in a big forest or something.
And Mystique will be Jean's love interest and Cyclops just some background character.
Great news as far as I'm concerned.
This is X-Men grounded:
And this is X-Men hammy:
I'll fucking take grounded any day of the week.
Yeah, I think "grounded" for the MCU is dumb as fuck but I think grounded is just what X-Men needs. I'm really looking forward to New Mutants because it's supposed to not go all out on the comic-booky stuff.
Frozenprince
Banned
Logan is an elseworlds based off Old Man Logan, it and Dark Phoenix saga are as diametrically opposed as possible.
Why even DO Dark Phoenix if your not gonna go to space and blow shit up?
Why even DO Dark Phoenix if your not gonna go to space and blow shit up?
The Elite
BOSS
Great news as far as I'm concerned.
This is X-Men grounded:
And this is X-Men hammy:
I'll fucking take grounded any day of the week.
Grounded for Logan doesn't necessarily mean grounded for the X-Men will work. Despite Wolverine being one of the team they are vastly different as properties.
BoogieWoogie
Banned
Not for Dark Phoenix and the Shiar of all things.
BattleMonkey
Member
Grounded, is code for "cheap". With how the movies are performing, they ain't spending a budget on huge intergalactic storyline
Youngfossil
Neo Member
Why can't they do a REAL sentinal movie. Where it's bleak as they are killing mutant
Bobby Roberts
Banned
Simon Kinberg is a fucking jackass
SomedayTheFire
Member
Please stop this.
Father_Brain
Banned
As I've said before: the Singerverse is a relic of an era when it was still novel for superhero adaptations to not show outright contempt for the source material. Long overdue for a total reboot.
Not like there isn't glut of "Grounded" x-men stories.
Frozenprince
Banned
Tell him to go away and stop ruining my X-Mens.
I believe that rumours were the film opens
.
I have trouble seeing this as a sprawling GOTG style space romp...., or a film that people will actually want to see.
Eh.
with a space ship crashing in the grounds of Xavier's school with Chastain's character inside. The rest of the film is primarily the X-Men battling alien invaders.., on Earth
I have trouble seeing this as a sprawling GOTG style space romp...., or a film that people will actually want to see.
Eh.
Youngfossil
Neo Member
They should pull an avengers and give each (main) character their own movie. (Cyclopes, X32/Wolverine. Jean gray, and i dunno lets say gambit) then make an xmen movie.
Great news as far as I'm concerned.
This is X-Men grounded:
And this is X-Men hammy:
I'll fucking take grounded any day of the week.
This is a movie about a giant space fire bird thing that turns evil and an intergalactic empire trying to stop it.
This is not Logan.
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