Fox's Plans for the 'X-Men First Class' Franchise

Fox's plans for X-Men: First Class became official following in November, assigning Josh Schwartz the enjoyable task of scripting an peril for up-and-coming X-Men. At the time, it wasn't run off if the film would be based on the droll ticket series that follows a young Cyclops & Co, or if it would be a sequel to X3 that followed Kitty Pryde, Iceman, and Colossus. Lauren Shuler-Donner gave the suit during ample interview on Fox's Life After Film School show and to the surprise of no one, X-Men: First Class will be a prequel. "It is the first domain of Xavier's school, way following when, so it's young Scott, young Jean, young Beast and that'll be really fun. I think [the plan] is to follow some of the characters into their own stories, and weave them following into the X-Men world. And hopefully First Class will suit its own franchise and we can follow them as they grow up." Given that a young Cyclops appears in X-Men Origin: Wolverine, the plans are obviously already in motion. Personally, I was hoping for a series that did follow the "new taste," because then we could have a Wolverine and Kitty Pryde match-up. It seems a speck dull to have a series following characters you know survive to suit X-Men -- but in the light of I happily read Wolverine: First Class my fracas isn't exactly watertight. At least the transformation from Beast from a man to a furry bawdy cat would be interesting ... but really, shouldn't Fox be looking forward with their characters, not back?[via Comics Continuum]Filed under: Action, RumorMonger, Scripts, 20th Century Fox, Newsstand, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Remakes and Sequels Permalink