Alternately, XX-Men: First Class
Sep. 12th, 2011 01:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seriousficSo I talked already about how I'd be game for an X-Men: First Class sequel that tied into the ancient astronauts/Bermuda Triangle/UFO craze of the 70s and brought in the Shi'ar and the Brood, if just as a crashed spaceship and freaky monsters, but I can see how that might be too Kingdom of the Crystal Skull for the norms. (But Fox owns both X-Men and Aliens. What if they just dispensed with the formalities and made an X-Men Vs. Aliens movie? WHAT. IF.)
Here's the other thing, which keeps with the grounded social justice angle of the films. I wasn't kidding about including Dazzler in the movie. One of the things that has always weirded me out about the X-Men concept is that they're fighting for tolerance, not by protests or diversity, but by dressing up in spandex and fighting ancient Egyptian mutants. I realize that's Marvel's bread and butter, but I always thought there's some interesting story to be had in the X-Men trying to get a mutant character into NBC's Fall line-up and such.
Going back to the movies, the 70s was just as socially turbulent as the 60s, but for homosexuality. You had the Stonewall Riots, Queen and other glam rock bands... basically, what I want is X-Men: Studio 54. Dazzler is this openly mutant performer who the X-Men at least interact with, Magneto is trying to instigate the equivalent of Stonewall (maybe with a villain hoping to use that as an excuse to crackdown on mutants), someone is dancing like John Travolta. I would not be amiss to Mr. Sinister as a Disco Godfather nightclub owner villain, as that would be considerably less ridiculous than, well, someone calling himself Mr. Sinister.
Cast Geoffrey Rush and pave the way for the greatest crossover of all time.
I'm picturing a Hellfire Club riot in the third act that's both cathartic, as mutants overrun the streets and show off their powers in public, and frightening, as some of them terrorize the Muggles and cause wanton destruction.
Here's the other thing, which keeps with the grounded social justice angle of the films. I wasn't kidding about including Dazzler in the movie. One of the things that has always weirded me out about the X-Men concept is that they're fighting for tolerance, not by protests or diversity, but by dressing up in spandex and fighting ancient Egyptian mutants. I realize that's Marvel's bread and butter, but I always thought there's some interesting story to be had in the X-Men trying to get a mutant character into NBC's Fall line-up and such.
Going back to the movies, the 70s was just as socially turbulent as the 60s, but for homosexuality. You had the Stonewall Riots, Queen and other glam rock bands... basically, what I want is X-Men: Studio 54. Dazzler is this openly mutant performer who the X-Men at least interact with, Magneto is trying to instigate the equivalent of Stonewall (maybe with a villain hoping to use that as an excuse to crackdown on mutants), someone is dancing like John Travolta. I would not be amiss to Mr. Sinister as a Disco Godfather nightclub owner villain, as that would be considerably less ridiculous than, well, someone calling himself Mr. Sinister.
Cast Geoffrey Rush and pave the way for the greatest crossover of all time.
I'm picturing a Hellfire Club riot in the third act that's both cathartic, as mutants overrun the streets and show off their powers in public, and frightening, as some of them terrorize the Muggles and cause wanton destruction.
