Fox's Marvels

A little over a week ago, word spread that X-Men Origins: Wolverine 2 has two potential directors taking the reigns: David Slade and Darren Aronofsky.  Both of these men carry some notoriety with them.  Slade is credited as directing the action packed 30 Days of Night and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. According to critics, Eclipse comes closest to appealing to men dragged in to see any Twilight movie by their girlfriends.  I suppose that's saying something.  Even more hopeful yet bizarre is Aronofsky, notable director of art film classics Requiem for a Dream and Pi.  Is it just me or is this project a little beneath Aronofsky?

He would be attached to a series where Will.i.am is supposed to be accepted as an actor!

Wolverine Origins may have done well in the box office, but as I mentioned last week, the box office is not a reliable scope of whether a movie is good or not.  Wolverine was a dumb film wrought with plot holes and continuity errors that would make Transformers 2 shed a tear.

Why did they run when they could drive an Autobot!?!?!

 

 

Fans have been burnt enough times by Fox to know that any superhero movie they churn out is likely to disrespect its source material seeking only to make money off the mainstream crowd who will go see it anyway.  Heck, even the fans fully in the know will go see it when their friends ask them to see it with them.  After all, they star an onslaught of big name actors and actresses who show up only because they had nothing else to do during filming.  Fox is killing two birds with one stone each time they make one of these films since their contractual rights to each franchise (X-Men and Fantastic Four) extends with each film they make.  Spider-Man is taken by Sony in the same way.  Earlier this decade, Marvel handed out its licenses like playing cards which was all good and well until they realized that they would do better to make their own film studio thereby creating consistent continuities with the films it made.  The aforementioned contracts is exactly why we won't be seeing Wolverine or Spider-Man joining The Avengers which is scheduled to come out in a couple of years.

There is hope though... hope that should be taken with a grain of salt.  We are still talking about Fox after all.  Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick have been confirmed as writers for the upcoming Deadpool movie.  That's right!  The guys who brought us the comedic genius of Zombieland have been chosen to bring the Merc with the Mouth known for his comedic personality in Marvel comics to the big screen.  Even better, Robert Rodriguez is most likely to direct the film!  It's not set in stone, but it is probably a good idea.  When not making films that appeal to children like the Spy Kids series, he is best known for his gory action flicks such as Desperado, Planet Terror, and last weekend's Machete.  If anyone can capture Deadpool's odd and quirky comedy while also keeping his chaotic and amoral sway to violence, it is Rodriguez.

Although, he is responsible for the start of Jacob's career.