What I think the X-Men movie should be.
I think the X-Men movie should be an adaptation of Giant-Size X-Men #1.
Hear me out, not only would this show the original X-Men as an already established team, but also introduce a new assortment of diverse mutants (just like the comic). Also this movie would be more Cyclops and Storm heavy, Logan will still have a presence but he’s not gonna overshadow the rest of the X-Men like the Fox movies, also Logan is needed for dollar of course. It would go something like this:
It starts off with the original X-Men (Scott, Jean, Angel, Bobby, Havok, and Lorna) fighting Magneto in the middle of NYC (typical Marvel) over… something. Magneto ends up retreating with his Brotherhood of Mutants, with the X-Men saving the day, but without any fanfare. Onlookers look in disgust and shock, some even boo and throw trash at them. But the X-Men don’t respond, being used to this. Thus they return to the Mansion to report to Xavier and celebrate via a BBQ, showing the camaraderie between the team.
However, Xavier calls them back in Psychically and tells them about a weird powerful mutant presence in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that is moving around, and Xavier sets them on a mission to investigate. Thus they set off to find whatever mutant is in the Pacific Ocean.
Xavier tracked them all the way using Cerebro until they were about to reach the Pacific Ocean, where Xavier wasn’t able to pick them up. Xavier waited for days, growing anxious, until Scott came in the front entrance. Confused with his suit torn to pieces, he stumbles to Xavier and says that the team got kidnapped by mutants, but doesn’t remember who.
After finding about this, Xavier decides that Scott should rest, while he looks for a new team to rescue the X-Men. So, just like the comic, Xavier goes to Germany (Nightcrawler), Canada (Wolverine), Tennessee (Banshee at a show), Kenya (Storm), Japan (Sunfire), Russia (Colossus), and Arizona (Thunderbird) in a montage, having a look at their situation and Xavier convincing them to come.
Now the team assembled at the Mansion, they get briefed at their mission and get introduced to their leader, Scott, having recovered and donning a new suit (Jim Lee suit). They then discuss where the OG X-Men might be. Scott thinks it could be a trap by Magneto, so they go to their base (Genosha) and confront him about it, even using violence e.g. Logan doing his classic pinning and threatening with his claws to Magneto. Magneto, pleading them that he knows nothing of their kidnapping, takes off his helmet and asks Xavier to read his mind, to which he is telling the truth. Although, he does tell them he heard rumours of an island in the Pacific that is very hard to access and said they could be there. Having given all the info they needed, the X-Men leave, with Magneto having an annoyed look in his face.
They then head to the said island, Xavier (at the Mansion), is guiding the team to the presence, which they deduced was the massive mutant presence. The island keeps on moving, making it difficult to catch up. Once they manage to go near it, the weather began to change from sunny to heavy rain and hurricane / cyclone like weather. With the weather being horrendous and shaking up the Quinjet, Ororo, with the reluctance of Cyclops and the team, goes out and stops the storm with ease, showing the power of storm and shocking the team with her Omega Level power.
When the weather clears up, the island is revealed, being a massive tropical and inhabited island in the middle of nowhere. Once they step foot off the island, they lose psychic contact with Xavier, leaving them on their own. Already the team starts to divide, with Cyclops and Storm already fighting about leadership, with Scott arguing that Storm didn’t listen to orders and Storm arguing back that she saved the team, with Logan egging it on a bit, especially to Scott. Kurt then breaks them up, reciting a bible verse to try and bring the team together, which barely works as they move on begrudgingly.
When they reach further into the island they are ambushed by a group of mutants, the marauders (pick whoever’s in the team, but Sabretooth is defo in the team). A massive battle ensues, with the team not being united and barely even knowing each other, the X-Men loses and Kurt and Banshee get kidnapped, with the rest of the team getting split up throughout the island. The split up teams are: Scott and Ororo, Wolverine and Colossus, and Thunderbird and Sunfire. The teams all go through their way to the island, facing obstacles and challenges from the island like giant crabs, vines, etc.
This is where the teams start to mix in with each other: Scott and Ororo learn to trust each other, Logan and Piotr form a formidable partnership with their fassball special form here, and Thunderbird and Sunfire bonding over their distrust over the western world, it’s better to work together than divide.
During this, Kurt wakes up in a lab, seeing a caped figure. This caped figure sees that Kurt escaped and introduces himself as… Mr Sinister. Sinister then reveals that he experiments on mutants and is using the Island (which he reveals to be alive and a mutant thus the massive mutant presence) to try and harness the power of mutants. He shows the OG X-Men + Banshee being exploited and experimented on, using Jean Grey to control the mind of the Island.
With the team reaching the centre of the island (where the lab is located), they reunite and the discuss how they should enter. Scott asks Ororo to feel the breeze going through the lab and give a basic map of it (idk some comic book-y shit). They discuss and listen to each other and plan it out. They enter and are immediately ambushed by the marauders again, but this team they’re ready. Storm detected that there was a suggested doorway and that Logan should be fassballed there by Colossus and slash away at the door while the rest of the team deals with the marauders. The plan worked and Logan managed to reach the lab. He sees Mr Sinister and immediately recognises him, but doesn’t know how. The Marauders and the rest of the X-Men reach the lab where they regroup and Mr Sinister reintroduces himself and the island… Krakoa. He gives a whole speech then Scott spouts out a cool line and the fight ensues yet again. Logan is again fassballed to the X-Men being experimented on, but Sabretooth meets him this time and they fight.
Scott, having enough of this, takes off his visor and blasts the containments where the captured X-Men are. They are free and join the rest of the team, combining them into one. A great battle ensues but then an earthquake happens. The island is now under its own control now that Jean is free and is now attacking everyone. It stands up and throws everyone one and pursues its attack. Jean tries to reach the Island’s mind but it’s futile. Eventually, with the combined efforts of Storm, Cyclops, Lorna, Jean, and Alex, the island breaks up and flies into the air, leaving a whirlpool. Bobby uses his ice powers to help the X-Men reach the Quinjet (which is on an unbroken part of the island) and they escape, leaving Mr Sinister and the Marauders.
They come back home to the Mansion to the relief of Xavier and they disclosed what happened. They celebrate with another BBQ, having a great team chemistry now. Towards the end of the party, Scott makes a speech, congratulating the X-Men on a mission success and also showing the value of teamwork. Additionally, to the shock of the rest of the team, Alex and Lorna are leaving the team to get away from the trauma of Krakoa and Angel is also leaving, being disillusioned with Xavier’s dream, they say their goodbyes to the team and that’s how it ends.
The post credit scene shows that Mr Sinister survives on sea but all his experiments and results gone, except for one, a vial of Jean Grey’s DNA.
Hear me out, not only would this show the original X-Men as an already established team, but also introduce a new assortment of diverse mutants (just like the comic). Also this movie would be more Cyclops and Storm heavy, Logan will still have a presence but he’s not gonna overshadow the rest of the X-Men like the Fox movies, also Logan is needed for dollar of course. It would go something like this:
It starts off with the original X-Men (Scott, Jean, Angel, Bobby, Havok, and Lorna) fighting Magneto in the middle of NYC (typical Marvel) over… something. Magneto ends up retreating with his Brotherhood of Mutants, with the X-Men saving the day, but without any fanfare. Onlookers look in disgust and shock, some even boo and throw trash at them. But the X-Men don’t respond, being used to this. Thus they return to the Mansion to report to Xavier and celebrate via a BBQ, showing the camaraderie between the team.
However, Xavier calls them back in Psychically and tells them about a weird powerful mutant presence in the middle of the Pacific Ocean that is moving around, and Xavier sets them on a mission to investigate. Thus they set off to find whatever mutant is in the Pacific Ocean.
Xavier tracked them all the way using Cerebro until they were about to reach the Pacific Ocean, where Xavier wasn’t able to pick them up. Xavier waited for days, growing anxious, until Scott came in the front entrance. Confused with his suit torn to pieces, he stumbles to Xavier and says that the team got kidnapped by mutants, but doesn’t remember who.
After finding about this, Xavier decides that Scott should rest, while he looks for a new team to rescue the X-Men. So, just like the comic, Xavier goes to Germany (Nightcrawler), Canada (Wolverine), Tennessee (Banshee at a show), Kenya (Storm), Japan (Sunfire), Russia (Colossus), and Arizona (Thunderbird) in a montage, having a look at their situation and Xavier convincing them to come.
Now the team assembled at the Mansion, they get briefed at their mission and get introduced to their leader, Scott, having recovered and donning a new suit (Jim Lee suit). They then discuss where the OG X-Men might be. Scott thinks it could be a trap by Magneto, so they go to their base (Genosha) and confront him about it, even using violence e.g. Logan doing his classic pinning and threatening with his claws to Magneto. Magneto, pleading them that he knows nothing of their kidnapping, takes off his helmet and asks Xavier to read his mind, to which he is telling the truth. Although, he does tell them he heard rumours of an island in the Pacific that is very hard to access and said they could be there. Having given all the info they needed, the X-Men leave, with Magneto having an annoyed look in his face.
They then head to the said island, Xavier (at the Mansion), is guiding the team to the presence, which they deduced was the massive mutant presence. The island keeps on moving, making it difficult to catch up. Once they manage to go near it, the weather began to change from sunny to heavy rain and hurricane / cyclone like weather. With the weather being horrendous and shaking up the Quinjet, Ororo, with the reluctance of Cyclops and the team, goes out and stops the storm with ease, showing the power of storm and shocking the team with her Omega Level power.
When the weather clears up, the island is revealed, being a massive tropical and inhabited island in the middle of nowhere. Once they step foot off the island, they lose psychic contact with Xavier, leaving them on their own. Already the team starts to divide, with Cyclops and Storm already fighting about leadership, with Scott arguing that Storm didn’t listen to orders and Storm arguing back that she saved the team, with Logan egging it on a bit, especially to Scott. Kurt then breaks them up, reciting a bible verse to try and bring the team together, which barely works as they move on begrudgingly.
When they reach further into the island they are ambushed by a group of mutants, the marauders (pick whoever’s in the team, but Sabretooth is defo in the team). A massive battle ensues, with the team not being united and barely even knowing each other, the X-Men loses and Kurt and Banshee get kidnapped, with the rest of the team getting split up throughout the island. The split up teams are: Scott and Ororo, Wolverine and Colossus, and Thunderbird and Sunfire. The teams all go through their way to the island, facing obstacles and challenges from the island like giant crabs, vines, etc.
This is where the teams start to mix in with each other: Scott and Ororo learn to trust each other, Logan and Piotr form a formidable partnership with their fassball special form here, and Thunderbird and Sunfire bonding over their distrust over the western world, it’s better to work together than divide.
During this, Kurt wakes up in a lab, seeing a caped figure. This caped figure sees that Kurt escaped and introduces himself as… Mr Sinister. Sinister then reveals that he experiments on mutants and is using the Island (which he reveals to be alive and a mutant thus the massive mutant presence) to try and harness the power of mutants. He shows the OG X-Men + Banshee being exploited and experimented on, using Jean Grey to control the mind of the Island.
With the team reaching the centre of the island (where the lab is located), they reunite and the discuss how they should enter. Scott asks Ororo to feel the breeze going through the lab and give a basic map of it (idk some comic book-y shit). They discuss and listen to each other and plan it out. They enter and are immediately ambushed by the marauders again, but this team they’re ready. Storm detected that there was a suggested doorway and that Logan should be fassballed there by Colossus and slash away at the door while the rest of the team deals with the marauders. The plan worked and Logan managed to reach the lab. He sees Mr Sinister and immediately recognises him, but doesn’t know how. The Marauders and the rest of the X-Men reach the lab where they regroup and Mr Sinister reintroduces himself and the island… Krakoa. He gives a whole speech then Scott spouts out a cool line and the fight ensues yet again. Logan is again fassballed to the X-Men being experimented on, but Sabretooth meets him this time and they fight.
Scott, having enough of this, takes off his visor and blasts the containments where the captured X-Men are. They are free and join the rest of the team, combining them into one. A great battle ensues but then an earthquake happens. The island is now under its own control now that Jean is free and is now attacking everyone. It stands up and throws everyone one and pursues its attack. Jean tries to reach the Island’s mind but it’s futile. Eventually, with the combined efforts of Storm, Cyclops, Lorna, Jean, and Alex, the island breaks up and flies into the air, leaving a whirlpool. Bobby uses his ice powers to help the X-Men reach the Quinjet (which is on an unbroken part of the island) and they escape, leaving Mr Sinister and the Marauders.
They come back home to the Mansion to the relief of Xavier and they disclosed what happened. They celebrate with another BBQ, having a great team chemistry now. Towards the end of the party, Scott makes a speech, congratulating the X-Men on a mission success and also showing the value of teamwork. Additionally, to the shock of the rest of the team, Alex and Lorna are leaving the team to get away from the trauma of Krakoa and Angel is also leaving, being disillusioned with Xavier’s dream, they say their goodbyes to the team and that’s how it ends.
The post credit scene shows that Mr Sinister survives on sea but all his experiments and results gone, except for one, a vial of Jean Grey’s DNA.
Commentaires
But it works as a cold open because it could establish the team while also explaining what they’ve been up to in the years since: the trauma pushed them into going their separate ways. But now that the mutant population is booming, they reunite (like a high school reunion) to guide the new generation of mutants at the school and around the world.
And then you also have started a long arc of Krakoa eventually becoming their utopia.
Possibly mention Sinister once or twice as a nickname other people gave him.