Ignorance Is Bliss: Singer's X3:
When Bryan Singer left to make Superman Returns he took his writer, Michael Doughtry with him - even as they were kicking around X3 ideas. What we got in it's stead was a superhero movie directed by the guy who did Rush Hour. But what of Singer and Doughtry's version of X-Men 3?
Well... it would have been fucking epic.
Here's Doughtry discussing for the first time an outline of their X3 (full quote):
Quote:
"The idea was that you open up with Alkali Lake but it's completely barren and dried up and there are these odd reports of strange phenomena going on around the world accompanied by bright lights in the sky.
"The idea would be that both the X-Men and the Brotherhood realise that essentially a very god-like force had entered their reality and that it was causing disruptions around the world, you know mutant prisons being decimated, I had pitched an idea about a fleet of cargo ships getting torn apart in the Atlantic and you found out that they were shuttling mutants as slave labour.
"You found out was that Phoenix was going round the world taking things into her own hands and that she had basically returned as a god, which they did in X3. She had viewed herself as above the conflict, that she was here to end things on her terms, she was sick of the fighting and she was going to take things into her own hands and she did not give a s**t what the X-Men or the Brotherhood had to say about it.
"And ultimately the way it was going to end, at least the version I was pushing for, would be that Phoenix was kind of like the Starchild at the end of 2001, she didn't just get stabbed and die again, but she kind of chose to leave.
"The one idea that I loved, that I really wanted to do, was that Cyclops would build the Danger Room. He felt guilty that because the X-Men were too weak, they weren't strong enough or fast enough, that was the reason Jean died. If they were a little bit better at fighting, then she might still be alive. It was all about this guilt he had about her death and he built the Danger Room to train them to be better. In the end it really was about him not being able to let go of her and that causes the chaos and disruption in the movie and in the end it's about him letting her go.
"Ultimately she kind of becomes that cosmic force that Phoenix is known to be, she leaves Earth and becomes a god or at least a higher level of intelligence and she goes into the cosmos possibly to kick-start life somewhere else. The final scene for me would have been her telling Cyclops or her telling the X-Men 'I'll be watching.'"
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God...
dammit.
Never Cross A Black Cat:
Sam Raimi is looking for a female lead to portray Felicia Hardy, who we all know to be the Black Cat. The front runner right now is Rachal McAdams. This confirms a character never spoken about previously. They're also looking for a male lead for a villain, but that's a little more mysterious.
Dylan Baker is back has Dr. Kurt Conners, and I'm reading that he'll finally do the Lizard thing this time. Does this mean we have two villains for Spidey 4?