Tag: X-Men: The Last Stand
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Sophie Turner’s X-Men: Dark Phoenix Prep Put A Real Strain On Her Mental Health
Once upon a time, in the pre-mcu age, there was an X-Men franchise at 20th Century Fox, and … it wasn’t half-bad! At first!Bryan Singer’s “X-Men” was the first Marvel-derived blockbuster in the history of motion pictures (“Blade” had been a standalone hit before), and the beneficiary of crackerjack casting with Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine. Greenlit…
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Why Taylor Kitsch’s Gambit Only Appeared In X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Director Gavin Hood’s “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” even teed up potential spinoffs by introducing Ryan Reynolds as a pre-Deadpool Wade Wilson and Taylor Kitsch as the Ragin’ Cajun himself, the smooth-talking, card-chucking thief Remy LeBeau, better known as Gambit.Pulling what we’d now call a “Black Adam,” Hood’s prequel did indeed change the hierarchy of Fox’s X-Men…
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Rebecca Romijn ‘Was Not Happy Working’ for Brett Ratner on ‘X-Men: The Last Stand,’ Calls Bryan Singer a ‘Fantastic Filmmaker’ Despite Set Drama
Rebecca Romijn’s tenure as Raven Darkhölme a.k.a. Mystique in the “X-Men” franchise included four feature films (and an uncredited cameo in a fifth) and two male directors who went on to be accused of sexual misconduct and inappropriate set behavior.Bryan Singer directed Romijn in “X-Men,” “X2” and “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” while Brett Ratner…
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Channing Tatum Details How ‘Gambit’ Movie Was ‘Swallowed Up’ by Disney-Fox Deal
Channing Tatum has finally stopped tinkering with a Gambit X-Men Marvel movie.The “Magic Mike’s Last Dance” star and producer reflected on the decade he spent trying to get Gambit off the ground. Tatum had been trying to develop a Gambit film ever since being almost cast in “X-Men: The Last Stand” as the character and…
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The Scrapped Gambit Movie Would Have Been ‘Mutant Goodfellas In New Orleans’
In the list of movies I’d like to have seen, the Channing Tatum-led “Gambit” is up there. One, because Tatum has enough charm to pull off my favorite character from “X-Men: The Animated Series,” and two, because of what “Gambit” co-writer Reid Carolin told The Playlist (via Heroic Hollywood) about the story we would have seen in…
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Time’s Up Condemns Brett Ratner’s Return: ‘There Should Be No Comeback’
Time’s Up has condemned Brett Ratner, the director behind the “Rush Hour” film series and “X-Men: The Last Stand” who was accused of sexual misconduct in 2017, for his planned return to filmmaking.He is set to helm a longtime passion project, a biopic about R&b duo Milli Vanilli, as reported by Deadline Friday. In November…
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Ellen Page, Paris Berelc to Star in Gaming Comedy ‘1Up’ for BuzzFeed Studios
Ellen Page and Paris Berelc have boarded gaming comedy “1Up,” with Kyle Newman directing in what could be the first feature film for BuzzFeed Studios.Berelc will portray a gamer who quits her college esports team due to sexism from her male counterparts. To keep her scholarship, she’s forced to assemble an all-female team and enlists…
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Superhero Bits: ‘Daredevil’ Actor Calls Out Racist Decisions By Jeph Loeb, ‘Tmnt’ 30th Anniversary Panel & More
Want to see how to make your own detailed cardboard sculptures of superheroes? What can we expect from Giancarlo Esposito in the second season of The Boys? How did Jeph Loeb reportedly ruin Nobu‘s story arc in Daredevil? Did Brett Ratner mislead Vinnie Jones about the size of Juggernaut‘s role in X-Men: The Last Stand?…
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‘Dark Phoenix’ Honest Trailer: From the Writer of ‘X-Men: The Last Stand’ Comes the Same Movie Again
This past summer, the X-Men franchise as it existed at 20th Century Fox came to an end. But Marvel’s mutants didn’t go out with a bang, but with the whimper of a new take on a story they already tried to tell back in 2006, and they even brought c0-writer Simon Kinberg back and let…
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‘Dark Phoenix’: Director Simon Kinberg on How Loyal the Film Will Be to the Comic
There are a lot of questions with regards to the upcoming Dark Phoenix. It will be the first time producer and screenwriter Simon Kinberg steps behind the camera to direct, and it will be taking on arguably the biggest X-Men comic storyline of all-time. The adaptation was attempted once before in X-Men: The Last Stand…