Wouldn’t you enjoy seeing Captain America toss Wolverine out of a plane at 35,000 ft. over the Arctic Circle? Or watching Namor the Submariner conjuring lakes of fire over the skies of Wakanda? What about a giant mythical dragon (in combination with what is known as the cosmic Phoenix Force) embruing a young girl, Hope Summers, with the power of bad-assery to defeat a power-hungry, snarling Cyclops?
I get it. You’re incredibly confused, and you should be.
This is the ridiculum of Avengers Vs. X-Men, or AvX, the recently completed Marvel Comics epic that sold over 1 and a half million issues over the 12-issue arc. Recently, Lauren Shuler Donner, producer of the X-Men series, said that she’d love to, “mingle them the way they were written.”
Obviously, with the success of ‘The Avengers’ — and the looming possibility of a Justice League movie at Warner Bros. — studios are buying into the more-the-merrier model that Joss Whedon’s summer blockbuster readily captured.
But the AvX series was nothing to write home about. Yes, it dominated in terms of sales, but it’s not a series that translates into film. Despite that harsh reality and the difficulty of 20th Century Fox and Marvel ever coming together on a deal to actually get it made, there’s still talk of a film adaptation nonetheless. So, due to my unrelenting, superhuman senses of spite and snark, I couldn’t help but compile 5 reasons AvX shouldn’t be brought to the silver screen.
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I agree with you on how AvX really was a wasted opportunity. And it was a complete cash-grab.
But Richard Donner isn’t dead.
This article kind of sucked. How about you focus more on the film universe instead of the comics. If there was a crossover who says they have to use that run.
Comprehensive criticism. But, in the X-Men film universe, there are no superheroes outside of the X-Men. In Avengers there are, that’s what I thought made the movie work well — combining characters that were previously separate in a narrative. X-Men’s never hinted at an outside universe. So, in the film universe, if there was a crossover they’d have a hard road ahead of them. And, to me, it doesn’t look like they currently want to address that, and they really can’t because their separate intellectual properties.
You know what. I’ll apologize for saying it sucked. I’ll say as someone whose more interested in the film universe it wasn’t for me. But I would’ve liked for you to have gone into why it wouldn’t have worked. Like Avengers has more set up. Or the tone is different and just went more into the film universe I believe more of your fans will appreciate that more than talking about the comic. Big Fan btw most of your articles are very good
Good points. If hell froxe over and they did decide to do a crossover, AvX would have to be severely changed before it could fit. Especially the components only fans get (like Wakanda, Iron Fist and the Scarlet Witch; waaaaay too much backstory to fit in for her part, she isn’t anywhere in the films and doesn’t look like she might be soon (which make me sad, but oh well)). Speaking of Wanda, a House of M sort of story could work as well (meaning reality re-written, not necessarily with the lead up events), I would give the studios a chance to basically make a huge ‘What If’ on the big screen.
What makes you think Richard Donner is dead? Did you read “ex-husband” somewhere and translated that to “late”? Did you misread IMDB?