Angel may have endured two lacklustre cinematic appearances so far, but there's a reason why Fox keep returning to him (and no, it's not the garish chrome pallet).
As a founding member of the X-Men, there's a certain need on Fox's behalf to make the character work on the big screen. It's not as if they're short of which version to choose from either, with both the privileged Angel of yesteryear and the brooding Archangel of the eighties having suffered at the hands of Brett Ratner and Bryan Singer respectively.
But - for the purposes of an X-Force adaptation at least - Warren Worthington III is an integral part of the team. Certainly, the aforementioned Remender series placed a great deal of emphasis on the character. There, the villainous Archangel persona fought a war with Warren's normal self to assert control over his mind, body and spirit. It didn't end well.
It's a dynamic that would no doubt thrive in the gritty inflections of an X-Force drama, and although there's no romance shared between the onscreen versions of Angel and Psylocke yet, getting into Warren's head would make for an altogether more different kind of X-tale than what we've previously been used to.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
