5. Civil War Is A Better Storyline
While the likelihood of AvX may be implausible, at best, the chances of seeing Mark Millar's 'Civil War' series on the silver screen may be in the near (speculative) future.
Millar was recently signed on to Fox Studios to serve as a guide for their superhero films. Properties under the Fox flag include the Fantastic Four, Daredevil, and obviously X-Men. In the Civil War universe, X-Men, Fantastic Four, and Avengers members come to grips with the gravity of their powers after a nuclear explosion caused by a superhuman kills thousands. The U.S. government and S.H.I.E.L.D enact a superhuman registration act, dividing the superhuman community amongst those who see it as a burden associated with the responsibility of the superhuman and this that see it as an infringement and demonization upon their kind; hence, 'Civil War.' Millar wrote the series and is in creative control of the development of two majorly important groups in the series, with X-Men and Fantastic Four, so (with a lot of work) it's practical from a timeline standpoint. What I disliked about AvX was the part-and-parcel approach to creating the story, a patchwork compilation of a bunch of fight scenes with considerably less character development than 'Civil War.' There's moral ambiguity in 'Civil War,' each side with it's own flaws and failures unlike AvX's one-sided, simplistic villains in Cyclops and the Phoenix Five. The way I picture it, some Marvel Comics exec's sat down and Exec No. 1 said, "Okay, we've got Avengers and we've got X-Men. What can we do with those?" Exec No. 2 replies, "We could make them fight? That'd be pretty badass, right?" Exec No. 3 retorts, "Oh! This would give us a chance to make Cyclops 'edgy!' We've always talked about that!" And so it began. If Fantastic Four is successfully rebooted, and maybe 'Days of Future Past' establishes a rift or at least incongruity in their tired, hero-less universe, then the script could write itself and 'Civil War' could become a CGI-filled, superpower-packed reality. Of course, this is all speculative, as the studios would likely never (at least openly) discuss shared production rights, grosses, and credit. Would I see an AvX movie? Sadly, I probably would just to see what they came up with and to admire the exorbitant casting, budgeting, costuming, set designing and, of course CGI on the big screen. Could they actually write an AvX movie? Hell no. They had a hard enough time trying to make it interesting in comics.