Those rumors came from a single, unverified poster on a comic discussion board who claimed to work on the film with no proof. So I'd take it all with a grain of salt. Though Dark Phoenix is such an important X-Men story that I could see Marvel wanting to save it for themselves. But that's a lot of spent money to throw away.
Re: Xmen / Mutant Mega-thread
Posted: 27/07/18, 14:40:17
by O-dot
To quote Don Draper, "Is this a substance much like bullshit?"
I totally don't buy that they're just going to cancel two megabudget franchise properties. No way. Quality control has never been that big a concern in the X-men franchise. It's truly a fluke that Logan turned out as good as it was.
Re: Xmen / Mutant Mega-thread
Posted: 29/07/18, 00:37:01
by klimov
Can't they just cancel all of them, forever?
Re: Xmen / Mutant Mega-thread
Posted: 30/07/18, 00:34:18
by darkness
O-dot wrote:I totally don't buy that they're just going to cancel two megabudget franchise properties. No way. Quality control has never been that big a concern in the X-men franchise.
Normally I'd agree with this. But Marvel Studios, who's responsible for a good chunk of Disney's revenue, tends to get what it wants. So if they said kill Dark Phoenix I would tend to believe Disney would do it, especially if somehow the film was subpar. After all, Fox is the one who gets to take the financial hit for that, not them.
But again, this all came from a single poster on a message board, so I still would take it with a grain of salt. Since the deal just literally went through, it's probably too soon for Disney to have been making decisions. Hell, they might get the idea to can it from reading these rumors.
Re: Xmen / Mutant Mega-thread
Posted: 27/09/18, 14:11:52
by TC
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a 2-minute trailer in which the titular character utters two lines. confidence-inducing this is not.
Re: Xmen / Mutant Mega-thread
Posted: 27/09/18, 19:34:02
by darkness
Yawn.
Re: Xmen / Mutant Mega-thread
Posted: 28/09/18, 08:19:04
by TC
yeah. it's my favorite storyline in all the x-men comics, and this has two crushes in it, and i still think it looks like a disaster from this trailer.
Re: Xmen / Mutant Mega-thread
Posted: 28/09/18, 10:43:36
by Alexhead
They barely did a decent job with the Days of Future Past storyline, already fucked around with/fucked up this one in the original trilogy, now this is getting dumped in February...just give them all back to Marvel please kthx.
Re: Xmen / Mutant Mega-thread
Posted: 28/09/18, 16:06:33
by O-dot
Two thoughts. Fassbender is aging at a rate not seen since Ralph Fiennes in the early 2000s. And I've never seen so many big name actors so obviously just in it for the money by this point.
Re: Xmen / Mutant Mega-thread
Posted: 28/09/18, 20:47:50
by TC
...and now they've pushed it back to june.
Re: Xmen / Mutant Mega-thread
Posted: 28/02/19, 11:17:26
by darkness
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Re: Xmen / Mutant Mega-thread
Posted: 28/02/19, 12:17:39
by TC
i'll be there. looking better.
Re: Xmen / Mutant Mega-thread
Posted: 28/02/19, 13:08:16
by darkness
Being a big story from my childhood comic days, I'm cautiously optimistic. Hoping we get a Days of Future Past and not an Apocalypse.
Re: Xmen / Mutant Mega-thread
Posted: 05/03/19, 13:02:58
by TC
this trailer is a little better, except we can hear her scream in space. maybe she's in our heads.
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Re: Xmen / Mutant Mega-thread
Posted: 05/03/19, 14:06:30
by darkness
That doesn't look too bad. Starting to look forward to this one. Hopefully the Fox X-Men franchise can go out on top.
Re: Xmen / Mutant Mega-thread
Posted: 31/05/19, 07:06:53
by TC
not canceled...
GeekTyrant wrote: Disney and Marvel Are Preparing For Reshoots For THE NEW MUTANTS
Disney and Marvel Studios are planning on releasing The New Mutants on the big screen. The film production has been in limbo for some time now. It was supposed to go through some extensive reshoots, but those reshoots never happened while the film was at Fox.
Well, now that Disney and Marvel have the film they are ready to get the film the reshoots that it needs. The confirmation of this news comes from X-Men: Dark Phoenix director Simon Kinberg, who told Digital Spy:
"What's happening is we're gonna do reshoots this year on that film and it has a new release date from Disney. That's really it. Part of it was figuring out what the reshoots were gonna be, the pick-ups, and the other part of it was getting that cast back together."
That’s great news! The new release date for the film is in 2020, so we still have to wait a bit, but hopefully it will be worth the wait. This is actually a movie I’ve been really excited about. On top of that, it sounds like Marvel is going to be helping guide things on the creative side. Kinberg added:
"For all of these movies, Marvel's really brilliant at scheduling pick-ups into their budget and schedule so it's all prepared, and we have never been that smart. For us, we're always scrambling to get these actors back together so they're all in the same place at the same time."
I imagine Josh Boone will return to direct the reshoots with the cast that includes Anya Taylor-Joy as Magik, Charlie Heaton as Cannonball, Maisie Williams as Wolfsbane, Henry Zaga as Sunspot, and Blu Hunt as fallen Mirage. Here’s the previously released synopsis:
Held in a secret facility against their will, five new mutants have to battle the dangers of their powers, as well as the sins of their past. They aren’t out to save the world — they’re just trying to save themselves.
Hopefully the movie turns out to be a hit!
Re: Xmen / Mutant Mega-thread
Posted: 06/01/20, 08:12:47
by TC
fucking finally:
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Re: Xmen / Mutant Mega-thread
Posted: 06/01/20, 12:49:51
by O-dot
Heavily reshot. Dumped on a spring weekend.
Re: Xmen / Mutant Mega-thread
Posted: 06/01/20, 13:08:15
by TC
director says it's actually his original vision.
Re: Xmen / Mutant Mega-thread
Posted: 18/04/21, 06:52:23
by TC
THAT was “his original vision”? Finally watched New Mutants last night and holy fuck was it a completely shit show. It was aggressively bad, like it was trying to piss off the viewer. 3/5 of the kids have inexplicable and unnecessary accents that seemingly come and go throughout the film. The writing and dialog are completely nonsensical, for the most part. And the “story”? I mean, of all the NM stories out there, you come up with this shit? Holy fuck was this movie infuriating. Not “bad-good” like Neil Breen films, just fucking bad. Hopefully next time they decide to revisit The X-Men universe, it will be by someone that actually loves the material and is competent enough that studios stay the fuck out of their way. So depressing what Hollywood has done with such a fantastic universe of material and a killer setup not even 20 years ago.