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Film X-Men 3 will be directed by .... Brett Ratner. John threatened to derail the day when he offered this information in the comments section of my previous post on the subject. So now what was one of the best film franchises of the decade is now in the hands of the man who directed the Rush Hour films and the pointless Hannibal Lector remake/prequel Red Dragon. John says:
"The only good news is that with shooting starting so soon Ratner might not have time to make major changes to the script or cast. Does he really have the clout to persuade the studio to put things on hold and risk pissing off the cast while he rethinks the whole thing?"
Well no, but I wouldn't be shocked if he starts going over the script during shooting. And hiring his mate Chris Tucker to play a mutant he'll create from scratch and wedge into the thing for 'comic relief'. Seriously is this the man you want to have overseeing the realisation of the Dark Pheonix arc? Ironically Ratner left Superman just before Bryan Singer took over that project after walking away from X-Men. Swings and roundabouts.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ratner should pull the old "character sucked in from an alternate universe" move and have Tucker reprise his role as Ruby Rhod. Can't you just see what a double act Ruby and Wolverine would make. Pure comedic gold, I tell you!

[I laugh because otherwise I'd never stop crying...]

Anonymous said...

It looks as if you were right about Ratner's rewriting the script: rumour has it that he's having a (young, female) mutant with the power to seduce written into the film.

Stuart Ian Burns said...

The crudding out of the film continues. Although I have heard nice rumours that the casting directors, without a script to use, have been resorting to something mocked up based on Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men ...

Anonymous said...

Yes, I've heard that story too. (And that Summer Glau screen tested for the part of Kitty Pryde, so she went to Joss to ask for advice. Which is only fitting when you consider that Whedon has acknowledged that Kitty was one of the inspirations when he developed teenage superheroine of his very own.)