Kinberg expects X-Men TV shows

James McAvoy, Hugh Jackman and Nicholas Hoult reprise their roles in X-Men: Days Of Future Past

Marvel writer and producer Simon Kinberg has said there is a strong possibility that more of the superhero universe's stars could get their own TV shows.


Simon, who wrote and produced the X-Men films, told Collider that Fox was considering whether to make more Marvel TV series like Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Daredevil series which will air from 2015.

He said the X-Men stories were suited to TV: "We're still in this place of figuring out what the future of the franchise will be, but when you look at S.H.I.E.L.D. to some extent and what Marvel is doing now with Daredevil ... it makes sense to tell some of these stories on TV partly because there's just not enough screens to do all these characters and also because the serialised format of comic books is better suited for TV.

"Because that's it, every week you come back to the same characters, different story, and in comic books every week it's the same characters, different story."

Simon added that there were more possibilities now that special effects didn't have to be so expensive.

He explained: "I think what [Fox is] seeing now is with the proliferation of new kinds of visual and special effects, there's a way to make these stories that doesn't cost 300 million dollars every time you have to make a huge movie."

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Source: independent

THE WOLVERINE Sequel Announced

Bryan Singer Reveals ‘Apocalypse’ Will Be Most Destructive ‘X-Men’ Film to Date

“X-Men: Apocalypse” won’t hit theaters for another two years, but Bryan Singer is already spilling details.

The director-writer-producer told Total Film magazine that “Apocalypse,” which will deal with the notion of ancient mutants, but be set in the 1980s, will be the most destructive movie in the franchise.

“‘Apocalypse’ will have more of the mass destruction that ‘X-Men’ films, to date, have not relied upon,” Singer said. “There’s definitely now a character and a story that allow room for that kind of spectacle.”

'X-MEN: APOCALYPSE' IS COMING IN 2016

Among the legion of superhero films coming out in 2014, X-Men: Days of Future Past stands tall as the most exciting. With a budget far surpassing that of nearly every movie ever made, a story drawn from a highly celebrated and highly complex comic book arc, and a reunion of Bryan Singer and his rightful seat in the director's chair for the mutant franchise, the movie has promise. So it's hard not to be doubly excited for announcement of a follow-up feature to Days of Future Past. Six months before the film is set to release, Singer has taken to Twitter to announce his next project from the world of Charles Xavier and company: X-Men: Apocalypse.


A concise tweet on Thursday bequeathed the news unto the public. Singer announced that Apocalypse, potentially derived from the X-Men comics "Age of Apocalypse" storyline, will release in 2016.

#Xmen #Apocalypse 2016!
— Bryan Singer (@BryanSinger) December 5, 2013

Though there are no confirmed details about the storyline just yet, the presumed source material "Age of Apocalypse" involves (much like Days of Future Past will) time travel and alternate histories, with Xavier's son Legion (yet to make an appearance in any of the X-Men movies) facing off with Magneto.


According to Box Office Mojo (via Cinemablend), the film's official release is set for May 27, 2016.

Source: hollywood.com

The Wolverine: Hugh Jackman’s ‘Real’ X-Men Costume Revealed in Alternate Ending

By next May, Hugh Jackman will have played the mutant hero Wolverine in seven different X-Men films (including the X-Men: First Class cameo) and not once has he worn one of his iconic costumes from Marvel Comics. In the trailer, image and teaser footage of Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past, Jackman suits up in new duds yet again (in the future and in the ’70s). But still no classic yellow and blue – at least that we've seen.

Sir Ian McKellen marries X-Men star Sir Patrick Stewart (officiates at his wedding to Sunny Ozell, that is...)

Sir Ian McKellen is believed to have married fellow theatrical knight of the realm Sir Patrick Stewart. Sir Ian conducted the ceremony at his friend Sir Patrick’s nuptials to jazz singer Sunny Ozell this weekend, that is.

Eschewing Hello magazine or a newspaper advert, Sir Patrick, 73, announced the news of his third marriage via Twitter, sharing a photograph of himself and his bride with their heads poking out of a children’s ball pool, accompanied by the words: “Yes, married.”

Ozell, 35, and Sir Patrick have reportedly been together for around five years having met while the latter was playing Macbeth at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Acting veterans and best chums Sir Ian (The Lord of the Rings) and Sir Patrick (Star Trek: The Next Generation) , who recently appeared together in a Broadway revival of an acclaimed production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, as well as Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land,have also co-starred in X-Men.

Sir Ian announced in March on The Jonathan Ross Show that he was planning to conduct his friend Sir Patrick’s wedding ceremony. The six-time Olivier-award winner said the wedding would take place in Massachusetts where the Bay State offers a “one day marriage designation” for $25 allowing a person to legally perform a wedding ceremony - although the exact whereabouts and details of the occasion have not been confirmed by either party.

Sir Ian posted a snap of himself on Facebook holding a “Doctor of Divinity” certificate and a T-shirt saying “Minister” along with the caption “I did my part”.

It is the second time Sir Ian has been called on to perform the “Dearly beloveds” at a good friend’s wedding, having previously led a civil partnership ceremony for two other friends.

His marriage to Ozell is Sir Patrick’s third trip down the aisle. He and first wife, Sheila Falconer, divorced in 1990 after 24-years of marriage. The couple have two children together, Daniel and Sophia. In 2000 Sir Patrick married one of the producers of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Wendy Neuss. They divorced three years later.

American-born Ozell describes herself as a “staunch Brooklynite” but is originally from Reno in the US state of Nevada.

On her website Ozell claims to be “equally adept at jazz standards as George Harrison, Bonnie Raitt and her own heartrending compositions”. She is a regular at Lower East Side music halls such as Rockwood and the Living Room and has collaborated with Jim Campilongo, Adam Levy and Krystal Warren.

Sir Patrick's snap of himself and his wife in a ball pool is a nod to a previous photograph which went viral after he tweeted it (below).

Source: Independent.co.uk

‘Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ Won’t Feature X-Men

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. will not feature characters from the X-Men universe due to rights issues, according to executive producer Maurissa Tancharoen.

“We can never [even] use the word ‘mutant,’” Tancharoen told the Wall Street Journal.

The upcoming ABC series is a spinoff of The Avengers, taking place after the film in continuity. While it is something of a sequel, co-executive producer Jed Whedon (who is married to Tancharoen) warned viewers against expecting appearances from other characters in the Marvel universe.

“There is a danger of creating an expectation that [they] are going to see the sequel to The Avengers, Whedon said. “They’re going to see something very cool… but we also want them to come meet our characters and not just wait to see Iron Man swoop into the screen.” 

Joss Whedon also previously explained that while characters like Cobie Smulders’ Maria Hall could appear when their schedules permit, “Right now, I want to involve people in the characters that we've created for the show and then we’ll worry about the other stuff.” Smulders officially signed on for the series in July. 

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. revolves around Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg), the leader of the organization. Coulson was killed by Loki (Tom Hiddleston) in The Avengers, but comic books and their adaptations generally don’t adhere to the concept of “permadeath.” Gregg said he has heard a number of theories about how Coulson could have survived, and that he initially wasn’t sure about returning. That is, until he talked to Joss Whedon.

“When Joss described to me the mystery that takes place in Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the complexity and the unanswered questions about Phil Coulson standing there trying to deal with this, I found it so fascinating and so true to the world of the comics and mythology in general as I understand them that I was immediately in,” he said in April. 

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. will premiere September 24.
Source: Inquisitr