Comments on: Extensive Reshoots Scheduled: Is ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’ In Major Trouble?

By: theplaylist

theplaylist — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:06:00 +0000

Some of the extra characters thrown in sound okay on one hand, but sound like a fan/producer clusterfuck of what’s bound to be a “you asked for it, here it is” revue of sorts. That ought to disprove my admittedly crappy theory!

By: theplaylist

theplaylist — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:04:00 +0000

As I was writing it, I kind of realized that what fans are pulling for may not (and usually isn't) more attractive a concept that what the producers want to turn a given property into.

It just seems like an unequal but opposite reaction that could (but probably won't) counterbalance or lessen the direction a producer may want to go with a story (particularly if revisions are in the offing). Again, what I just wrote doesn't sound all that plausible. Oh well.

By: rodrigoperez

rodrigoperez — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:57:00 +0000

lost track of Wolverine and his origin long ago, but i read somewhere that fans persuaded Fox to include Gambit in the story (because in one of the 10,000 X-men, origin re-writes it was revealed that Gambit) had something to do with it, i forget what).

but i think that's gay. I hate when fans influence the creative. If the filmmaker or studio is that unsure of what they're making or what their direction is they a) aren't the right people for the job and b) don't know the material well enough so they shouldn't be making it, period.

By: theplaylist

theplaylist — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:52:00 +0000

It's just like we were saying - origins are a cash grab move made by movies or comic book houses that ruin the characters' mystiques. I don't hold much favor for Wolverine stuff since he now has kids on top of having an origin story. He's just been run into the ground, it seems.

If there's anything good that can come of the ever-growing geek bloc, it's that they would try to pressure the movies' producers, in light of the producers' ideas of what needs to be done to a film property.

I think Fox sounds pretty worried about things in general (particularly amidst all of their Watchmen nonsense) and that maybe their paranoia got the best of them.