And in other news - X-men: First Class

[angelophile]

Looks like that's to be the official name of the upcoming young X-men movie.

The bad news is that it's been put in the hands of the guy who does Gossip Girls and The OC.

No news if they're gonna use the younger characters from the movie, some of them, a completely new set or, as the title suggests, the original recruits. (Well, not the ORIGINAL class, given the way the ages were played around with in the movieverse, but there's always a possibility of the story of young Scott, Jean, Hank and Ororo in a movie style I guess.)

Given the angle the movies seem to be headed in - Wolverine Origins, Magneto Origins or whatever the heck it's called, Captain America - First Avenger - they seem keen on this whole prequel deal.

Anyone heard anything about the upcoming Runaways movie, by the way? Following its announcement, I haven't heard much. Did someone mention that some studio exec was thinking of it as "the new Goonies" or did I just make that up?

Comments

[entershan.livejournal.com]

I hope it's not as bad as Smallville.

[angelophile.livejournal.com]

Hard to see how it could be. To be fair, the X-men have a long history of teen based "student" books. The original X-men was a bunch of teens learning to be superheroes, then there was New Mutants, Generation X and currently New/Young X-men. Plus the X-men's base is actually a school, so it's a lot easier to tap into that that "teen Superman".