There's two pieces of X-men related news to report today. The first is the above video clip. It's the trailer for the upcoming new X-Men animated series. Coming in January 2009, the new show will be called Wolverine and the X-Men (because the X-Men name itself isn't apparently enough to sell a show, you need to throw Wolverine's name in there too just so fans know he's in there). Aside from the questionable plot of Wolverine having to pull a broken up group of X-Men back together to fight the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, the show looks like it's going to be really good. First off, the animation looks nice and it appears that the show is going to be dealing with some of the Days of Future Past stuff. Secondly, in the first trailer that came out, we learned that the show will not have Professor X and Jean Grey (as least, not right away) as they are presumed killed in an explosion on the school's grounds, which leads Cyclops to become a bitter and depressed drunk. That there sounds like it'll be fun to watch.
The second bit of X-Men related news today is word that the X-Men film franchise is due to get a new series of films coming out, but don't expect these movies to star main-stays like Wolverine or Cyclops. Variety is reporting that 20th Century is gearing up to make a new X-Men movie that centers around the younger group of X-Men. But there's one bit of potentially horrible news here. The project is being written by Josh Schwartz, the guy who created the shows Gossip Girl and The OC.
Fox has been leaning toward using the younger characters introduced in the previous pics in future installments -- teenagers with powers taught at the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning.
The resulting film would likely draw from elements of the Marvel comic of the same name, launched in 2006, and enlist such characters as Iceman, Rogue, Angel, Colossus, Jubilee and Shadowcat, who have appeared prominently or made cameos in prior pics.
It sounds to me like they're trying to make a movie that will capitalize on the teeny bopper buzz around films like Twilight and Harry Potter. Think of this like "Xavier Institute: 90210".
Are you as frightened by this as I am?
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