X3 teaser poster

[Warrior Poet]

Though, I think the guy who styles himself a Warrior Poet would be more open to artistry from tough characters

Touché!

Fair enough. Apparently, Wolverine's a great dancer, and looks snazzy in leopard hot pants. You heard it hear first.

From Umbran.

Warrior Poet

 

[Palaner]

*sigh*

http://chud.com/news/3270

BRETT RATNER SPEAKS IN THE THIRD PERSON
06.08.05
By Devin Faraci
Contributing sources: MTV

csaIf there is no other information that you get from this article, at least walk away knowing that Brett Ratner talks about himself in the third person. The new director of X3 unloaded in a bizarre interview with MTV that covered himself in the third person, how all of you reading this hate him, and when Brandon Routh will die.

"Jackie Chan says Brett Ratner is the luckiest guy in the world," the fuzzy, creepy man said, referring to the star of the now defunct Rush Hour films, "and I feel like I am."

Ratner is a self-professed comic book fan, ( "Bryan Singer and Brett Ratner are in that age range who grew up on comics," he says. "Well, I don't know if he grew up on comic books, but in that generation where comic heroes are part of our society and part of our pop culture.") and he had been interested in doing the first X-Men until Bryan Singer took it. Then he was attached to the new Superman... until Bryan Singer took it.

God, could this all be a ploy to bring Singer back to the franchise?

"Bryan Singer left ['X-Men 3'] because he didn't like the material," Ratner insisted, although Singer has denied this. "But I don't think this movie is tainted; I think it is fantastic and the script is amazing."

But Brett Ratner knows that Brett Ratner is not the most popular guy on the Internet. "[They think] I'm the antichrist I don't think about it." He doesn't think about it - being the Anti-Christ comes naturally to him!

So who IS Brett Ratner? "I'm not Joel Schumacher," he said. "And I'm not ... um ... who did the third Superman? I'm Brett, and all I know is what I know, what I can do and what I have to work with."

Of course he's referring to the fact that superhero franchises have died after the second film. And thinking of that makes Brett Ratner think of something else. "Well, there's also the fact that all the Supermans die a tragic death," he said. "Do you think the new guy [Brandon Routh] is going to die also?"

Wait... is that a threat? Oh Brett Ratner, you card!

 

[Taren Seeker]

Wow...that is one of the more mean spirited and biased commentaries I've read.

What is it the industry calls these..a hatchet job? Or something to do with a knife...

 

[RangerWickett]

Have any of you swung by Aint-it-cool-news.com to see the bizarre rumors there. Like that the plot of the movie will revolve around a glowing-blue serum that, when injected into a mutant, turns her into a normal person.

Apparently the first person they inject is Rebecca Romijn (Mystique).



P.S., did anyone else notice that, in the first movie, when Mystique is in the helicopter, disguised as Senator Kelly's aid, she takes a cel phone from the senator, tucks it into a coat pocket, then proceeds to shapeshift and, apparently, integrate the cel phone into her body?

 

[Breakstone]

P.S., did anyone else notice that, in the first movie, when Mystique is in the helicopter, disguised as Senator Kelly's aid, she takes a cel phone from the senator, tucks it into a coat pocket, then proceeds to shapeshift and, apparently, integrate the cel phone into her body?

...ew.

 

[Ferret]

Poster looks good, I don't know how good Ratner is, but I also don't know how bad he is....

Did anyone notice the order the casting is in?[/url

Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Shawn Ashmore, Daniel Cudmore, Alan Cumming, Famke Janssen, James Marsden, Sir Ian McKellen, Anna Paquin, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Kelsey Grammer, Vinnie Jones, Maggie Grace


Hugh coming first of course.... Some names I can't place though who is/are Shawn Ashmore and Daniel Cudmore? I'm guessing Bobbie and that-fire-guy-whose-name-I-forgot.

 

[BvS]

Unfortunately it seems that Nightcrawler (or at least the actor who played him so well) has been dropped.

http://filmforce.ign.com/x-men/articles/627/627266p1.html

This movie is starting to seem way to "executively handled". Between the constant changing of directors, a just-finished script, a group of actors all wanting more screentime and a production company so tenatiously set on a release date despite these setbacks, the whole thing is leaving a bad taste in my mouth. Hopefully Fox will be able to pull it all together in the end.

 

[Sir Brennen]

Wow...that is one of the more mean spirited and biased commentaries I've read.

Well, to be fair, I think many of his comments are a reaction to the mean-spirited things that have been said about him. At least he seems to have a sense of humor about it.

 

[Taelorn76]

Update on Magneto spin-off

This is from Superherohype.com.

MTV has posted a great interview with Marvel Studios chairman and CEO Avi Arad. He discusses all of the Marvel movie adaptations in the works and reveals some new bits on various projects. For example, there's this part about the Magneto "X-Men" spin-off:

"I will always want Ian McKellen," Arad says. "There's no way for me to think of not walking into the story through him — through something happening now, and then going back there. Ian is an ambassador for this, and he needs to be there."

From my understanding they want to deal with present day Magneto and flash back periodicly to what shaped him into the man he is now.