Tag: X-Men

Episode 232: New Mutants

Martyn and Gerrod discuss the 13th film in the X-Men franchise, they also discuss the latest Bond trailer and, John Boyega’s recent interview with GQ.

The New Mutants is a 2020 American teen-horror, based on the Marvel comics of the same name. It is the thirteenth and final installment in the X-Men franchise.

The film was directed by Josh Boone, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Knate Lee.

It stars Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Alice Braga, Blu Hunt, and Henry Zaga.

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Ryan Reynolds interviews Hugh Jackman

Hugh Jackman is currently doing the press rounds for the upcoming sports drama, Eddie the Eagle. On one of those junkets he was surprised to find Ryan Reynolds in the interview chair. Reynolds crashed the junket and asked Jackman a bunch of questions, most of which were sly digs at X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Reynolds shared the video on his YouTube channel, which you can view below.

Film review-Deadpool 

The new Fox/Marvel superhero movie is loud, obnoxious, sarcastic, violent and sexually graphic. It’s also a tremendous lot of fun, at least for the fans. 

This has been a passion project for Ryan Reynolds for the past eleven years. But Fox never had enough confidence in the project to green light a movie. They put the character in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, in an attempt to garner popularity and spin the character off. However they mishandled him terribly and the project looked dead. At some point in 2014, test footage for a solo movie leaked online. It was a huge internet sensation and this movie received the green light the next day. 

  
The director Tim Miller’s background is in visual effects and it shows here, the opening credits fuse great action with sublime visual effects. Instead of the normal list of actors’ names, we get a tongue in cheek poke at the superhero/action movie clitches (“A Hot Chick. The comic relief. A British Villain. Directed by an overpaid douche bag”). 

Shortly after, the Merc with a Mouth breaks the fourth wall and assures the audience that this is no ordinary superhero movie, “I may be super, but I’m no hero”.

  
Deadpool is looney toons, but with a face full of scars and a couple of swords. It won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, but it will probably be your shot of Jack Daniel’s. 

Fox are developing two shows set in the X-Men Universe

Fox have long wanted to make a TV series set in the X-Men universe, now it seems that they’ve reached an agreement with Marvel, which will not only allow them to develop one TV series set in that universe, but two.

Fox producers Bryan Singer, Lauren Shuler Donner, and Simon Kinberg will colabirate with Marvel TV’s Jeph Loeb and Jim Chory to bring the shows to our screens.

The first series is called Legion. It’s being written and helmed by Fargo creator Noah Hawley. The second series, Hellfire is being developed by Evan Katz (24: Live Another Day), Manny Coto (24), Patrick McKay (Star Trek 3), and JD Payne (Star Trek 3).

Legion will  introduce us to the story of David Haller, David has battled with mental illness his whole life, he was diagnosed as schizophrenic in his teenage years,  he’s been in and out of various psychiatric facilities for years. After an encounter with a another patient, he’s confronted with the possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees might be real.

I loved Fargo, I thought it was a marvelous adaptation of the Cohen brothers movie. Hawley is a great choice to take on this project and I’m sure he will bring us something magical.

FX said:

“Legion is just the sort of ambitious story that Noah excels at. His adaption of Fargo for television was one of the most acclaimed television events in recent memory. It’s also an honor to partner with Marvel on Legion and to enlist such an accomplished team of Executive Producers to create this pilot.”

Hellfire will be set in the mid-late 1960s, and follows a young Special Agent who learns that a power-hungry woman with extraordinary abilities is working with a clandestine society of millionaires – known as ‘The Hellfire Club’ – to take over the world.

It’s unknown at this point if anyone from the film universe will appear.

I’m very interested to see how these projects turn out. It’s actually surprising that Fox and Marvel have made a deal together, it’s well documented that the two studios don’t see eye-to-eye. Marvel haven’t allowed Fox to release X-Men toys since 2003.

 

Channing Tatum walks from Gambit?

I imagine very few of us saw this coming. According to The Wrap Channing Tatum is dropping out of the Gambit movie, which he has been trying to get Fox to make for years. 

This was a long passion project for Tatum, he’s spoken enthusiastically about the film in every interview for the past three or four years.

He even surprised fans at comic con by attending the X-Men panel in Hall H. 

No reason has been given yet, as to why he is leaving. But Tatum did admit in an interview recently that he was struggling with the Cajun accent.

Gambit is scheduled for release at the end of 2016. 

Rumour X-Men/Fantataic Four crossover due in 2018.

The very reliable Latino-Review are reporting the X-Men may team up with The Fantastic Four in a cross-over in 2018. 
But before that can happen, the Fantastic Four reboot and its sequel (due in 2017) have to make a huge amount at the box office. X-Men: Apocalypse also needs to make a respectable amount, which is a safe bet when you look how well Days of Future Past did.
So a lot of things need to align before that can happen, but given that every single studio wants an Avengers, I would say 2018 is looking pretty good for a crossover. 

The possibility alone has me excited. 

Deadpool starts shooting in March

Fans have been waiting years to see Ryan Reynolds reprise his role as the merch with the mouth, now we’re one step closer. He and director Tim Miller are in pre-production for Deadpool. The movie finally starts shooting in Canada, in March.

The movie has booked two months at Vancouver’s North Shore Studios, although it isn’t known if the production will shoot in any other locations around the city.

I can’t wait, I’ve always thought that Ryan Reynolds was born to play two roles, Wally West AKA The Flash and, Wade Wilson AKA Deadpool.

I really hope the film can live up to my expectations. Reynolds and Miller has stated they wanted this to be R-rated (18 in proper money). But the pair eventually made a compromise with Fox, who wanted a PG-13 (12A in proper money).

The film will also star T.J. Miller (big hero 6) and Ed Skrein (the upcoming Statham-less Transporter movie).
Deadpool is set for a February 2016 release and will be part of the wider X-Men universe.

Review-X-Men: First Class DVD

After the abysmal X-Men 3 and the enjoyable, but forgettable Wolverine. I’ll admit that I was sceptical about another trip to the X-Men well.
I was wrong, X-Men: First Class is brilliant.
The movie starts, where the first X-Men film started, in 1944, with a young Erik, in a Nazi concentration camp. Erik’s power is spotted by Dr Schmidt (Kevin Bacon) who pushes Erik to unleash his powers, in a brutal way.



At the same time, a young Charles Xavier finds young Raven/Mystique, in his kitchen, disguised as his mum stealing food and the two become friends.
The movie then moves to  1962, where Charles (James McAvoy), with the help of CIA agents, starts to search out other mutants. It’s during a mission, that they find Erick (Michael Fassbender-next James Bond, surely?) who is still hunting Schmidt, who now is a wealthy man named Sebastian Shaw. Shaw is organising his own group of mutants, to rise up against the humans.

The acting is great, but the film suffers slightly from having so many characters. Any film with a large cast is going to struggle to give each character the screen time, he/she deserves. Some of the mutants featured are Angel,  Azreal, Banshee, Beast, Emma Frost, Darwin, Havok, and Riptide.  Even Hugh Jackman makes a cameo appearance as Wolverine.

There are some continuity issues, Xavier is left wheelchair-bound in this, yet in the flashback opening to X-Men 3, an older Xavier is walking, unaided. Also, in the ’80s set Wolverine, there is a teenage Emma Frost. Yet in the 60’s set First Class, Emma Frost is a fully grown adult.  Which, bring us on to the only major flaw in this film, January Jones. She is awful. She looks bored, she looks hungry. Maybe we would have gotten a better performance if someone on set, had just bought her a sandwich. Special mention however must go to Nicholas Holt. He is amazing as Hank McCoy/Beast. His American accent even sounds natural.

Overall, I enjoyed this film and I would welcome another X-Men story, with this cast.