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19:38 / 13.11.05

I think Stan Lee's senile - he can't even remember the name of a character that he created, and seems to think that he's been allowed to swear in a film that is blatently going to be a PG.

15:45 / 15.11.05

A recent ad for the Fantastic Four DVD in the pages of Marvel Comics says that the DVD (which comes out in mid-Dec.) will have a 'sneak peek' at X3, whatever that means.

17:54 / 15.11.05

I think Stan Lee's senile - he can't even remember the name of a character that he created...

...or he was trying valiantly not to reveal the movie's big hook—that Jean comes back to life. My gut feeling is that he was choosing his words carefully to dance around the reveal, and that the SciFiWire geek, striving to appear in-the-know, both spoiled the movie and made Stan look bad.

Fucking internet "journalists," man.

02:35 / 16.11.05

whaddafuck intarwub!

08:34 / 16.11.05

That's almost as good as the classic Cash picture!

12:27 / 16.11.05

I need that photo on a t-shirt, with the caption "Excelsior, Bitches!"

12:25 / 17.11.05

Oh joy, Emma Frost has been cast...we can all finally rest easy now.

Look...her name is Ashley and she's blonde and has perky breasts thus making her ideally suited for the role.

The girl cast as Monet St. Croix has a potato nose so I thought it best not to burden the blog with her image (just looking out for everyone’s fragile sensibilities, is all).

So with Emma and Monet joining the cast that brings the total number of featured characters, both speaking parts and cameos, to something like...what, 40. I hope Brett Ratner isn't under the impression that by resorting to flagrant geekery (like having a corset-bound White Queen mincing around a class-room, grinding her crotch against the forehead of every unsuspecting student she passes or by featuring every comic book character to ever sport an X-shaped belt buckle) that he's going save this bloated, dead horse.

Just kidding! Such geekery will work wonders. I personally can't wait to see Ashley here rolling around on the Mansion front lawn with Ellen Page's big noggined Kitty Pryde, pulling hair and snarling hurtful, yet witty insults at each other. Oh, won't that be the day.

Regrettable Juvenilia

12:39 / 17.11.05

Yeah, thanks for that contribution.

Mister Six, whom all the girls

12:46 / 17.11.05

Will thet also be grinding some home brewed crotch coffee?

18:21 / 17.11.05

The article does mention that those 2 characters are likely to be smallish cameos...maybe a la Kitty Pryde in X2?

With the size of the cast for X3, many characters look likely to have only tiny roles, methinks...

07:01 / 18.11.05

Yeah, thanks for that contribution.

Pleasure...lover.

With the size of the cast for X3, many characters look likely to have only tiny roles, methinks...

Small cameos you say? We knew Kitty was Kitty in both flicks because she could run through walls and Siryn was Siryn because of that wail. They didn’t have to say a word because their powers did the talking. Now how, pray tell, will we be able to know who’s who if they don’t have lines or if other characters with lines don’t identify them? Will they have another “students-being-attacked-by-military-types” montage?

Oh and yeah, does anyone actually know what M does? I know her mutant power is that she’s perfect but what does that mean?

ONLY NICE THINGS

08:35 / 18.11.05

Finnola Hughes will always be the White Queen to me.

As for Monet's powers... oy. In essence, she's super-strong, can fly, Nigh-invulnerable, photographic memory, heightened sesne. She's also autistic. She's also actually not Monet at all, but Monet's two younger sisters, fused together to create a copy of their older sister. Except she isn't anymore, because they swapped bodies with her when she was transformed into a spikey gimp.

It's all a bit involved, not to say utterly ridiculous. There's a bit on it in the Marvel Surgery thread in Comic Books, if you're ready for the pain.

20:17 / 29.11.05

superhero hype has the following screenshots from the 'preview' of X3 to be included on the Fantastic Four movie DVD:

storyboards and Avi Arad, doubtless saying how awesome the movie will be.

09:16 / 30.11.05

superhero hype has the following screenshots from the 'preview' of X3 to be included on the Fantastic Four movie DVD:

Yeah, they’re kinda shite, aren’t they?

Oh and plus, X-3's plot will revolve around ugly mutants feeling bad about being ugly and about people calling them names like Cat-face or...um. Professional ugly mutant and chronic sewer-dweller Callisto is also appearing and will be played by the lovely and surprisingly eyepatch-free Dania Ramirez (and yes, there are indeed three fat, black fingers attached to the top of Ms. Ramirez's hairdo).

Anyway...I was just wondering what the likelihood is of M being included in this movie for the sole function of providing Rogue with her unnervingly absent powers of flight, nigh-invulnerability and super-strength. Monet St.Croix is just the kind of girl Rogue has been looking for and it would make a lot more sense if Rogue sucked her dry than if Miss Marvel (played by Olivia Wilde of course) mysteriously showed up. Plus she’s a throw-away character…she is meaningless to the greater X-mythos thus making her oh-so expendable. I'm guessing if anyone is going to try and move Rogue’s character away from her frumpy, mousy brown roots and more in the direction of her melon-bosomed comic incarnation it will be someone like Juggs subscriber and Hooters patron, Brett Ratner. Not that he's planning to, mind you.

Oh, and F.Y.I. I seriously doubt they’re going to introduce the Gen X team just yet so my guess is that M may very well be a member of the Hellions and Emma their mentor. This would make her evil and it perfectly acceptable for Rogue to make her a vegetable. But then again one would assume X-3 writer would like to preserve Emma’s current good girl image so that she’ll be able to play a teacher in the X-3 writer penned New Mutants movie coming to a theater near you, Summer 2007.

Or maybe M will just be some random Xavier School student who Rogue caught trying to give Iceman a blowie outside the showers after PE. Bless.

15:00 / 30.11.05

I didn't get Haus' Finola Hughes reference - I'm gonna take a guess. Was she Emma Frost in the supposed-to-have-been awful, low-budget Generation X TV pilot years back?

15:14 / 30.11.05

That she was, FinderWolf. Although, for some reason I used to think it was Morgan Fairchild.

ONLY NICE THINGS

15:59 / 30.11.05

Finderwolf, if you ever, ever combine the words "Finnola", "Hughes", "Emma", "Frost" and any perfect, imperfect, pluperfect or other past tense form of the verb "to be" again, I will put you down like a foamy labrador.

18:38 / 30.11.05

Morgan Fairchild would probably have been better, although cheesier in that unique 80s way.

18:41 / 30.11.05

>> (and yes, there are indeed three fat, black fingers attached to the top of Ms. Ramirez's hairdo)

Perhaps King Kong, or more to scale, Mighty Joe Young is patting her on the head in a paternal way? (no swipe at her parentage, simply figured you know, the fingers kind of look gorilla-esque to me, esp. what with all the King Kong advertising bombarding me these days)

Maybe King Kong is really a MUTANT and gets depowered when Morgan Fairchild as Emma Frost says 'no more mutants'.

Help me.

Spyder Todd 2008

20:35 / 30.11.05

*rolls up newspaper and bats Finderwolf on the nose while telling him "no, bad Finderwolf"*

Glad to be of service here.

22:02 / 30.11.05

As for Monet's powers... oy. In essence, she's super-strong, can fly, Nigh-invulnerable, photographic memory, heightened sesne. She's also autistic. She's also actually not Monet at all, but Monet's two younger sisters, fused together to create a copy of their older sister. Except she isn't anymore, because they swapped bodies with her when she was transformed into a spikey gimp.

Urgh. That was all Larry "Hammy" Hama's doing because Marvel forced him to write Gen X against his will so he set out to basically ruin the characters (Seriously. I remember reading that somewhere at the time - um, which isn't proof but you'll just have to take my word for it).

M was a fun character before he got his hands on her. But basically, yeah, she's a perfect mutant. Telepathy, flight, strength, invulnerability, "flashes of intelligence that put Reed Richards to shame " (actual quote) and probably other powers that never came up.

As for how you'll know it her... dunno. She'll be gorgeous- but so will everyone else in the movie (more or less).

04:50 / 01.12.05

Finderwolf, if you ever, ever combine the words "Finnola", "Hughes", "Emma", "Frost" and any perfect, imperfect, pluperfect or other past tense form of the verb "to be" again, I will put you down like a foamy labrador

No Haus, wait! Finderwolf does have a point. I, myself have quite fond memories of dear Finola as the White Queen. There's one scene in that dreadful, spurt of commercialism where our White Queen goes into a police station to get her kids out of jail, right? And she tricks the pig at the desk...wait for it...into thinking a postcard is an FBI badge! He let's them all go and...well, in retrospect this doesn't seem all that cool anymore but I curled over with delight at that tender age with the prospect of what telepathy entailed. She never was quite sexy and there weren't any pastees or corsets or anything but there was this strict schoolmarm thing about her...mmm, you had to be there. Oh and I'm not being sarcastic in the slightest...I really was that easy to please when I was younger.

Perhaps King Kong, or more to scale, Mighty Joe Young is patting her on the head in a paternal way? (no swipe at her parentage, simply figured you know, the fingers kind of look gorilla-esque to me, esp. what with all the King Kong advertising bombarding me these days)

FinderWolf, I checked. Those pudgy fingers actually belong to none other than 80's cartoon icon and Bill Cosby's special friend, Fat Albert (well, actually the fatty playing him, more like).

As for how you'll know it her... dunno. She'll be gorgeous- but so will everyone else in the movie (more or less).

Warewullf, she will not be gorgeous at all. The girl playing her is a bloody turd...you should see her...dead ugly, right? Oh and you're spot on, M was a fab character. She always seemed so unimpressed with it all. Perpetually bored with the superheroness of being an X. Luckily I jumped ship...the Gen X ship, long before everything went south. I never suffered the likes of Gaia and all that.

ONLY NICE THINGS

07:21 / 01.12.05

Finderwolf does have a point.

Whether this is true in a cosmic sense remains to be determined. In this case, however, his point is quite unlike the point you have made. Finderwolf guesses that Finnola Hughes was Emma Frost. FINNOLA HUGHES IS EMMA FROST IS IS IS IS IS IS NOW AND FOREVER. Question this and you reap the whirlwind.

(The studious observer may question the importance of Finnola Hughes to this thread. The studious observer is looking for FORKS IN EYES. IN a thread made up primarily of quotes from rumour sites and observations that a) the actor playing Fat Albert is fat and b) the actress playing Monet looks like a turd, Finnola Hughes may be out last, best chance.)

Regrettable Juvenilia

07:31 / 01.12.05

Was there ever a time when this thread was in any sense a) about the third X-Men film, b) worthy of being spared a tactical nuclear strike?

07:47 / 01.12.05

I think earlier on there was a post that mentioned the third X-Men film, but I'm not sure?

Regrettable Juvenilia

09:04 / 01.12.05

Great! Is it out yet? What do the people who've seen it think of it?

09:14 / 01.12.05

Is Finderwolf the only person taking this thing seriously?

ONLY NICE THINGS

11:09 / 01.12.05

Well, define seriously. The issue here is that there is no X-Men 3 film, nor will there be for quite some time. In the meantime we have this thread full increasingly of rumours copied and pasted from websites devoted to film adaptations of comic books. So, by the time the thing comes out we have a 6-page thread on it. This occurs in comics also, but the lead times are relatively shorter.

11:12 / 01.12.05

It does need a rumor and pre-production add on to the summary/title. I think that the Spider-Man 3 thread is about the only one that truly presents itself this way in that it asks what we'd want/expect from the film that is coming.

Regrettable Juvenilia

11:21 / 01.12.05

In the meantime we have this thread full increasingly of rumours copied and pasted from websites devoted to film adaptations of comic books.

Many of the posts on this thread aren't even that. Chikatilo's posts, for example, seem to be devoted to extensively mocking a finished movie that he has written, produced and directed in his head.

13:13 / 01.12.05

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

15:26 / 01.12.05

Wait... they're doing a third X-Men movie?

16:14 / 01.12.05

Oh and Haus, the serious thing was that Finderwolf seems to be the only one presenting regular updates from various sources about the films production, rather than the bizarre outlines of something else or the complete off-topic posts.

Anyway, I've said it once (twice, maybe even three times) and I'll say it again - Vinnie Jones = complete lack of interest from BtB

ONLY NICE THINGS

16:36 / 01.12.05

There is nothing more serious than Internet runours. Except possibly the idea that Emma Frost could be played by anyone other than Finnola Hughes.

16:50 / 01.12.05

here's actual NEWS: (courtesy of comics continuum)

>> X3 MOVIE UPDATE

The first trailer for X3 will appear in front of King King, 20th Century Fox has confirmed for The Continuum.

King Kong is scheduled to open in theaters on Wednesday, Dec. 14.

"We're expecting it to get a very enthusiastic response and we're very excited about it," associate producer David Gorder said. "We've got great footage. We've got three more weeks of principal (photography), so we've got a lot of stuff packed into the trailer that you'll see in front of King Kong."

The trailer will likely give at least a glimpse at new-to-the-movies characters such as Beast (Kelsey Grammer), Juggernaut (Vinnie Jones) and Angel (Ben Foster).

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