Harrison Abbott ranks the X-Men franchise from worst to best… With Dark Phoenix ostensibly serving as the last foray into the X-Men universe (pending The New Mutants ever getting released), now feels like an appropriate time to look back on everything the series has given us over the past 19 years. Granted, there have been […]
In Defense of Fox’s X-Men Franchise
With Dark Phoenix set for release this week, EJ Moreno looks back on Fox’s X-Men franchise… During the start of the Fox/Disney merger, the Internet took a sharp turn when it came to discussing the X-Men films. While it was never universally loved, the long-running comic book series never had such negativity surrounding it. With […]
X-Men: Dark Phoenix director says The Last Stand made the mistake of not going cosmic
Simon Kinberg, the director of X-Men: Dark Phoenix, says that X-Men: Last Stand’s‘s mistake was that it didn’t go cosmic. The latest adaptation of The Dark Phoenix Saga will soon hit our screens with Simon Kinberg’s X-Men: Dark Phoenix. This famous comic storyline has made it to cinemas once before with X-Men: The Last Stand, […]
Dark Phoenix director apologises for X-Men: The Last Stand
Long time X-Men writer and producer Simon Kinberg is set to bring the classic X-Men storyline The Dark Phoenix Saga to the big screen next year in X-Men: Dark Phoenix, having already taken one crack at the source material as screenwriter on X-Men: The Last Stand. The 2006 film was widely criticised by fans, particularly for […]
Making Sense Of The X-Men Movie Timeline(s)
Eric Bay-Andersen on making sense of the X-Men movie timeline(s)… To say that the X-Men movies are convoluted and confusing would be an understatement – over the past 17 years the franchise has seen multiple spin-offs, re-boots and re-castings, making any hope of coherence impossible. But there is a way to make (partial) sense out […]
How to fix the X-Men Cinematic Universe
Anghus Houvouras on how Fox can fix the X-Men: Cinematic Universe… Fox has been cultivating the X-Men cinematic universe for nearly two decades. It’s been that long since fans were first treated to Marvel’s most magnanimous mutants on the big screen. The first X-Men movie wasn’t perfect, but it was a solid first entry into […]
X-Men: The real Apocalypse is its continuity!
Tony Black attempts to make sense of the continuity of the X-Men franchise… Have you ever attempted to make sense of the X-Men movie continuity? As in pick apart the entire timeline of events across the eight, soon to be nine films in the franchise? Of course not, you all have lives. You have friends […]
X-Men Post-Apocalypse? What did he do for Deadpool? And how do you shoot a Quicksliver scene? – The Bryan Singer Interview
Flickering Myth’s Oli Davis sits down with the man who arguably birthed the superhero genre as we know it today with 2000’s X-Men – director Bryan Singer – to talk about super-slow motion, making fun of The Last Stand, and how involved will he be in the X-Verse in a ‘Post-Apocalypse’ age? You can watch the interview […]
Simon Kinberg and Bryan Singer open to revisiting X-Men’s Dark Phoenix Saga
Among the numerous criticisms aimed at X-Men: The Last Stand was the film’s rather poor attempt at adapting the Dark Phoenix Saga storyline. Well, now that X-Men: Days of Future Past has erased that movie from the timeline, and X-Men: Apocalypse is reintroducing Jean Grey with Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner, might we see […]