Post by Dino on May 26, 2009 7:24:05 GMT -5
I'm on a bit of an X-Men kick since I saw Wolverine, so I went back and listened to this episode. Few things I wanted to note:
The comic was launched in 1963, so it's actually a year older than you, Tom.
The actor who played Iceman was Shawn Ashmore. And it was Aaron Stanford (Aaron Ashmore is Shawn's younger brother, best known as Jimmy Olsen on Smallville) who played Pyro, but he didn't come in until X2. A different actor plays Pyro's brief cameo in the first film.
Storm's toad line in the first movie wasn't actually ad-libbed. Believe it or not, that was a result of one of the rewrites on the script. The man who wrote that line? Joss Whedon, surprisingly. He said in interviews the line was supposed to be delivered in kind of a non-chalant fashion but Halle Berry, in her infinite acting wisdom, decided to deliver it as something grander.
It wasn't actually Marvel who got pissy with Singer, it was 20th Century Fox. As this horribly unprofessional excuse for a studio is known to do, they dragged their feet on X-Men 3. Alan Cumming was someone who got really frustrated with this, because he was under contract for the third film and he had to clear every single project he wanted to do with Fox first to ensure it wouldn't conflict and he eventually got fed up.
Singer toyed with the idea of Sentinels for the second and then the third film. But the idea he had settled on was the Hellfire Club and the Dark Phoenix, with Emma Frost manipulating Jean.
When he was asked to do Superman, he went to Fox and asked them if they were ready to do X-Men 3. They said they weren't ready yet. So Singer said he would do Superman and then Fox said "oh but now we're going to do X-Men at the same time."
The guys who did X-Men Evolution and are now doing Wolverine and the X-Men are actually Chris Kyle and Craig Yost. By the way, Wolverine and the X-Men is a pretty cool show, check it out if you're an X-fan. And surprisingly, Wolverine made it to the big screen before Magneto did, which still seems to be stuck in development hell.
There has also been talk about Fox doing more X-Men Origins films, some of them even direct-to-video featuring some of the lesser-known characters. And they're also beginning work on relaunching the films with X-Men: First Class focusing on either the original team or some of the later additions to the franchise. Not sure what the word is on that.
The comic was launched in 1963, so it's actually a year older than you, Tom.
The actor who played Iceman was Shawn Ashmore. And it was Aaron Stanford (Aaron Ashmore is Shawn's younger brother, best known as Jimmy Olsen on Smallville) who played Pyro, but he didn't come in until X2. A different actor plays Pyro's brief cameo in the first film.
Storm's toad line in the first movie wasn't actually ad-libbed. Believe it or not, that was a result of one of the rewrites on the script. The man who wrote that line? Joss Whedon, surprisingly. He said in interviews the line was supposed to be delivered in kind of a non-chalant fashion but Halle Berry, in her infinite acting wisdom, decided to deliver it as something grander.
It wasn't actually Marvel who got pissy with Singer, it was 20th Century Fox. As this horribly unprofessional excuse for a studio is known to do, they dragged their feet on X-Men 3. Alan Cumming was someone who got really frustrated with this, because he was under contract for the third film and he had to clear every single project he wanted to do with Fox first to ensure it wouldn't conflict and he eventually got fed up.
Singer toyed with the idea of Sentinels for the second and then the third film. But the idea he had settled on was the Hellfire Club and the Dark Phoenix, with Emma Frost manipulating Jean.
When he was asked to do Superman, he went to Fox and asked them if they were ready to do X-Men 3. They said they weren't ready yet. So Singer said he would do Superman and then Fox said "oh but now we're going to do X-Men at the same time."
The guys who did X-Men Evolution and are now doing Wolverine and the X-Men are actually Chris Kyle and Craig Yost. By the way, Wolverine and the X-Men is a pretty cool show, check it out if you're an X-fan. And surprisingly, Wolverine made it to the big screen before Magneto did, which still seems to be stuck in development hell.
There has also been talk about Fox doing more X-Men Origins films, some of them even direct-to-video featuring some of the lesser-known characters. And they're also beginning work on relaunching the films with X-Men: First Class focusing on either the original team or some of the later additions to the franchise. Not sure what the word is on that.
