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August 01
2013
James Marsden thinks Joss should do a Kitty Pryde movie.
Which is fitting, seeing as Joss once said "If there's a bigger influence on Buffy than Kitty, I don't know what it was".
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Also nice that he wasn't pushing Cyclops, who was underwritten in the movies and fighting for screen time in a large cast. I've liked the character, but understand those who don't like him, because half the time Scott Summers is written like a tool. But Joss got why some of us like the character, and wrote him in Astonishing X-Men to show those strengths.
OneTeV | August 02, 04:10 CET
an0nymouz | August 02, 05:58 CET
Speaking of any new Marvel movie, it would be awesome if that Runaways movie finally happened. Even if Joss didn't write and direct it himself it would be nice to see him have a hand in it finally getting off the ground.
Matt_Fabb | August 02, 19:04 CET
I could see once the contract is up that 30th Century might come to its senses and try and lure him back for a character/universe he likes. Granted we don't know which wins out for studios-- the joy/safety of sequels or the fear of a female protagonist.
But yeah, James Marsden seems to be incredibly affable and charismatic in everything I've seen him in aside from the X-Men movies, it'd be nice to see them bring his character back especially in light of how the perceptions of the character have changed a bit since the first movie came out.
orangewaxlion | August 02, 20:14 CET
Jason_M_Bryant | August 02, 20:30 CET
The problem is, with Avengers giving him more clout (especially if A2 also does well), and with his rep, Joss is the man to do it... I really can't think of anyone else who could. Not because of skill: there are great directors out there. But great, feminist(-ish) directors with the power to get a superheroine film made, and make it successful? I can't think of anyone else. So Joss is the only man for the job...
...and that's a real problem. Both in the "only" part and in the "man" part. There ought to be more, and at least 50% of them ought to be women. And there aren't.
ManEnoughToAdmitIt | August 02, 21:09 CET
nyrk | August 02, 22:34 CET
As for Kitty, yeah she's ALWAYS been my favorite girl in the x-universe. I can even remember as a kid wishing that they could have got the girl who played Nancy in the first Nightmare in Elm street to play her, as at the time I thought she was the spitting image of her. Later on I wanted Natalie Portman to play her, but they torpedoed that option having her in the relatively worthless part of Jane Foster in Thor. Not sure who I think would be best in the part now. Nothing against Ellen page, who I really do love in most movies, but she doesn't really feel like Kitty Pryde to me..
Jas | August 03, 01:47 CET
OneTeV | August 03, 04:29 CET
Marvel still owns the IP to the X-Men but made the distribution deal with 20th Century Fox long before they made themselves a production studio and long before Disney bought them. So, the latest Wolverine-fronted movie gets a Marvel Comics/Marvel Studios logo, just like any Spider-man films done by Sony.
BlueEyedBrigadier | August 03, 05:36 CET
Jason_M_Bryant | August 03, 07:39 CET
OneTeV | August 03, 08:02 CET
DaddyCatALSO | August 03, 10:00 CET
But yeah, in hindsight re: super heroines there are so many cool X-women that I forgot the others who seem to be able to sustain solo mini-series better than Kitty. Namely there's Storm and Rogue but I also suppose that X-23 as the nubile young Wolverine-a-like are all more plausible as traditional action-franchise heroes and visually-proactive. Of course it also depends on how secretly ninja-trained they're willing to make Kitty?
orangewaxlion | August 03, 13:34 CET