Back when the X-Men movies were coming out, I had an idea. Instead of the 5 or so X-Men movies we got, I thought it would have been cooler to shoot 1 massive movie, that is released over multiple movies. If you don’t think that’s doable, I’ll remind you that all 3 Back to the Future movies originally were supposed to be one movie. Then they realized it was waaaaay too long, and chopped it up into 3 movies, and added some padding on the 3rd movie.

But my idea is first you see X-Men. And it’s a stand alone movie, but the individual X-Men kind of rotate in and out until the final battle of the movie. Only thing is, the final battle doesn’t happen in this movie. Instead, the big finale is Morph of the X-men dies. He would be heavily featured in the main movie. As basically the “main character”, since the other X-Men are tagging in and out so rapidly.

Then, 3 months later, we get “X-Men: Prof X”. It’s a back story of Charles Xavior, and how he started the X-Men. And it shows his lifes work leading up to, and including the events of X-Men. You even see every time Xavior was onscreen in X-Men, that footage is reused in “X-Men: Prof X” as part of the story. But this movie expands on his personal role in the main movie. And this movie would only be in theaters a short time. Maybe a month.

Then X-Men: Wolferine would come out. And again, his backstory, and the events leading up to, and including the footage from X-Men.

And you begin to see why the main movie the X-Men cycle in and out. Each individual X-men will get a brief run movie, and each movie will include footage from the original movie.

I figure Cyclops and Jean Grey would be bundled together for their backstory movie, and their scenes in the main movie would be bundled.

And each one would get these full movies, but they’re like side piece movies. Thats why they get limited runs.

And remember when I said the final battle doesn’t happen? Well, I lied. The final battle just doesn’t happen in the FIRST movie. The second movie X-Men 2 picks up immediately after the first one ends. And by that, I mean even in shooting it’s shot as just one continuous scene so the second one picks up IMMEDIATELY after Morphs death.

Then they spend the first third of the second movie regrouping, and making sure they’re well prepared for the battle. And the middle third is fighting big fights, but not the final battle.

Then the final third is the big epic battle everything has been brewing towards. And it comes to a finale.

And then they judge audience engagement. If the audience just wants X3, thats where they go. But, if they want more Morph, they can do a Morph backstories movie. He doesn’t get one with the rest, because he’s already the main character of the first movie.

Oh…and by the way…MY version would have had Wolferine WEAR THE GOD DAMN YELLOW SUIT!!!

But here’s the cool thing about all of this. Both X-Men, X-Men 2, and all of the backstory movies (with the exception of Morph) would all be shot at the same time.

And the entirety of X-Men can be seen in the backstory movies if you watch all of them. However in each individual backstory movie, only maybe 15 minutes of the original movie is present, because each one only shows the footage reletive to that movie.

So anytime Wolferine is on screen in X-Men, that same footage will be used in X-Men: Wolferine. But you won’t see Cyclops in X-Men: Wolferine unless he shared screen time with Wolferine in X-Men.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    I still argue that if you take:

    X-Men Origins: Wolverine
    X-Men
    X2

    That’s a solid trilogy. Beginning, middle and end. People hate Origins because of how they fucked up Deadpool, but Reynolds as Wade was fine, the plot with Silver Fox was fine.

    What I’d like to see Marvel do is spread it out a bit more:

    X-Men - Classic blue and yellow suits, OG team.
    X-Men 2 - Introduce the New X-Men, turn Beast Blue. Giant Size #1 story.
    X-Men 3 - The Sentinels story from X-Men 97-100, Xaviers dreams of an alien invasion, Jean becomes Phoenix.
    X-Men 4 - Shi’ar invasion, Mkrann crystal, all that, probably a 2 parter.
    X-Men 5 - Hellfire Club, seduction of Jean.
    X-Men 6 - Dark Phoenix.

    Twice now they just tried to do 1-2-Dark Phoenix. Not enough time to get to know Jean and get to know Jean as Phoenix before doing Dark Phoenix.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      11 hours ago

      One of the reasons I wanted each one of them to have individual backstory movies, is because I want a Beast movie. I think he has ALL the characteristics to be a lead role, but I didn’t want to kill him. That’s why I chose Morph.

      But Beast is intelligent, empathetic, loving, and he’s strong. Like he could have scenes that are him being cornered by a bunch of humans, and they try to 20 on 1 fight him. He tries talking his way out of it. He does everything he can to avoid fighting. But then one of them takes out a chain and just thwaps him in the face. Then he’s like “Alright, shows over” and just goes all Beast mode on them.

      But then the news is reporting that somebody captured video footage with their home camcorder (you have to remember 2000 was before everybody had a camera in their pocket), of Beast just tearing them up, but DIDN’T get footage of the 5 minutes of the humans being the ones to pick the fight.

      So now Beast is trying to explain the situation to Charles, and Charles is telling him how he needs to be the better person. And Beast says “Better person? Look at me! I’m not a person at all!” And Charles says “Yes. You are.”

      And you could see Beast in his room, just self isolating and trying to rationalize things. Trying to see himself as a person, who just happens to be 6’9, 700lbs of muscle, and blue furred. It’s self discovery on his end. And the fight scene could be the part of his movie that ends up in the first X-Men movie. You put little clips of each movies most important scenes. The whole first movie would essentially be a full length movie that serves as a commercial for the other films.

  • phughes@lemmy.caEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    ’ll remind you that all 3 Back to the Future movies originally were supposed to be one movie. Then they realized it was waaaaay too long, and chopped it up into 3 movies, and added some padding on the 3rd movie.

    That’s retroactive marketing bullshit. “It was always envisioned as a trilogy, which is why the first one is a standalone movie and the second and third are two halves of a movie” Once you notice this talk you see it everywhere. The Matrix, Pirates of the Caribbean… really any big hit that they cashed in on with two more sequels.

    Just like Lucas’ nine part saga BS, when really he hadn’t thought past the end of A New Hope.