Donner Talks Mutant Movie News

Mutant Fever Continues

By TK | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (17)

Do you want more Marvel mutant movies? Was X3 and X-Men Origins: Wolverine just not enough for you? Lucky you, then, because apparently that well hasn’t been drained yet.

SlashFilm was at the Fox Blu-Ray press event in Beverly Hills, and managed to get some interesting, if nerve-wracking, tidbits from Lauren Shuler Donner, the producer for pretty much all Marvel-based mutant superhero movies in recent history. As suspected, there’s already a Deadpool spinoff movie in the pipeline, and as far as the mutants go, the plan right now is for a fourth X-Men movie, as well as a movie based on the X-men C-Team, The New Mutants. The latter will likely be a coming-of-age story as well, given the age of the team and their trainee status. Although, who the hell knows what team members they’d use. I could pass on Cypher (ooh! a translator! So thrilling!), and if we saw Magik, they’d likely dump the whole demon alter-ego thing. Ah, Inferno. Such a fun story arc.

Back on topic: It’ll be interesting to see where 20th Century Fox takes the series now. Bryan Singer’s and Gavin Hood’s Wolverine screwed with the timelines quite a bit (and killed off critical characters), so there’ll likely be more frustrating tinkering. But really, the movies will succeed if they can just do one thing:

Suck less.

I don’t ask for much.

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They're are countless X-Men characters, this cash cow will never run out of milk, and even if it does, there's always the reboot.

Posted by: George at September 22, 2009 10:05 AM

I want more mutants, but like you I just want them to suck less.

Posted by: ed newman at September 22, 2009 10:07 AM

I feel like I'm on here once a week showing my support for X3.

What's the word on a Magneto spin-off? And what are the odds it will suck worse that Wolverine? 2:1?

Posted by: Colin at September 22, 2009 10:07 AM

I'm not interested in X-men spin-offs.

I'd watch a Moist spin-off from Dr. Horrible, though.
You know, just an ordinary guy, life of crime, moisture.
Could be fun.

Posted by: BWeaves at September 22, 2009 10:14 AM

I would love to finally see a third X-Men film. The first was great (save for Halle Berry). The second was phenomenal. I can't even imagine what has taken them so long to announce a third after the success of the first two.

(The devil is whispering in my ear that there was not only a third already, but also a forth spin-off with a mute deadpool. It sounds familiar, but the devil is a liar and a douchebag.)

Yeah, can't wait for that third X-Men movie.

Posted by: superasente at September 22, 2009 10:18 AM

Hell yes, I would absolutely watch a Moist spin off. Most certainly before the next garbage X-Men movie.

Posted by: TheMaskedEmu at September 22, 2009 10:40 AM

Is there an X-Man with a suck mutation? If they're going to continue deep-dicking the franchise, they might as well go full meta.

Posted by: admin at September 22, 2009 10:43 AM

I just wish I had more access to glittering spandex, so I can be Dazzler for Halloween.

Hmm, maybe the Halloween stores have an Edward Cullen costume I could use. BA-ZING!!

Posted by: Patty O'Green at September 22, 2009 11:37 AM

I'm surprised so many people enjoyed even the first X-Men movie.

Would the New Mutants really be about the original cast of that comic? Seems like there have been ten versions of the team since then, and none of those "classic" characters are any more well known to the general public than the current team. I wish they'd just let them alone, the early issues of that comic were more true to original X-Men concept than anything else published under the X banner in the last thirty years.

Posted by: Dur. at September 22, 2009 11:57 AM

"I just wish I had more access to glittering spandex,"

Well, I just wish I had a body like Rebbecca Romajin Stamos. If I looked that good naked I don't think I would ever get dressed again. Also, I could probably get John Stamos into bed, so double win.

Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at September 22, 2009 12:39 PM

What are they going to do when patrick Stewart dies? It's all over when there's no more appropriately-grave bald men to wheel around.

Posted by: hater from siloam springs at September 22, 2009 2:17 PM

Fuck you for picking a shitty ass actor who couldn't even come close to touching Gambit from the comics. I'm looking at you Taylor Kitsch. Were you Cajun? Charming? A panty dropper? Did you have an ego as big as Wolverine's? Granted, it was probably the screenwriters fault...or was it? I still think Josh Holloway would have been better. Just like they should have chosen James Preston Rogers to play Thor.

Posted by: DeistBrawler at September 22, 2009 2:34 PM

Hey! I liked Inferno. Okay, I liked parts of Inferno. Colossus fighting a demon? Sure. Madelyne Pryor in a cape and black leather bikini? I'm down. The presence of Mr. Sinister? Not so much. The unspeakably terrible ending? Feh.

I'm going to be sick.

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at September 22, 2009 4:18 PM

Keep the Rat far far away from the franchise. Here's an idea, give it to Joss Whedon. He wrote Astonishing X-Men, he knows his stuff. Oh wait, Fox already stole from that plotline for that bullshit X3 bullshit.

Posted by: TylerDFC at September 22, 2009 5:11 PM

I want to be excited for this. I really do. I love all things X, and I loved the Inferno storyline. But I'm scared that they'll get someone like Hayden Paniwhatever to play Illyana and it'll be like Halle Berry as Storm all over again.

Posted by: MelBivDevoe at September 22, 2009 5:21 PM

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

BASTARDS!!!

Sorry. I'm sobbing incoherently in the corner over here with my Illyanna tattoo and my depressing, age 36 year old ass. I AM (well, was) the personification of that lil' demonic russian and I AM (was) willing to do ANYTHING to secure the role when I was 16-20. I mean that - I'd have let Skitz script my casting couch power play and I was virgin! Virgin I say!

Now it would take damn near Joan Rivers levels of work to make that audition happen.

TK, I do believe I have tasted the rage and it burns. Oh how it burns.
*weepweepweepweepweep*

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