Tag: Simon Kinberg

Next X-MEN Movie Set in the ’90’s

X-Men '92 courtesy Marvel
X-Men ’92 courtesy Marvel

The X-Men movie franchise is jumping into a new decade – one that was a blockbuster era for the comic book.

The current trilogy is leaping through the decades. First Class was set in the 1960’s in the heart of the Cold War. Days of Future Past was set in the 1970’s during the Nixon era and reset the timeline. X-Men: Apocalypse rises in 1983 in this summer’s sequel.

Producer Simon Kinberg confirmed the next film will time jump again:

“The next one is set in the ’90’s” said Kinberg according to ComingSoon.

The ’90’s was the Mutant Genesis. Continue reading Next X-MEN Movie Set in the ’90’s

X-MEN SPINOFF “BREAKING BAD” OF SUPERHERO STORIES”

X-Men Legacy #4 courtesy Marvel
X-Men Legacy #4 courtesy Marvel

Professor Xavier’s son caused massive shakeups in mutant history and could shakeup the superhero genre on screen.

Fox and Marvel are working on two X-Men spinoff television series: Legion and Hellfire.

Legion by Fargo creator Noah Hawley as showrunner/writer is the story of David Haller, Professor X’s son code-named Legion. David is a mentally unstable young man with multiple personalities and each personality is in control of one of his multiple mutant powers which include telekinesis, telepathy and pyrokinesis.

Veteran X-Men producer Simon Kinberg compares the Legion project’s potential to a hit series of a very different genre. Continue reading X-MEN SPINOFF “BREAKING BAD” OF SUPERHERO STORIES”

X-MEN FUTURE MOVIES Update

X-Men: Days of Future Past courtesy Fox
X-Men: Days of Future Past courtesy Fox

We’ve seen the Days of Future Past but what about the near future for the cinematic X-Men?

Producer Simon Kinberg is enjoying the blockbuster success of The Martian now an  Star Wars: The Force Awakens on the horizon while working a series of X-Men movies. Three X-films are coming out in 2016.

X-Men: Apocalypse is the third film with the First Class cast. From the 1960’s to the 70’s and the 80’s – we’ve seen the cinematic back story of the mutant heroes and villains but is this the big finish? Continue reading X-MEN FUTURE MOVIES Update

FANTASTIC FOUR Sequel Power

Fantastic Four courtesy Fox via Twitter
Fantastic Four courtesy Fox via Twitter

The world is waiting for a new Fantastic Four.

The team behind the X-Men franchise is helping reboot Reed, Susan, Johnny, Ben and Doom.

Will Fox’s reboot with a modern take on Marvel’s First Family be the launch of a new franchise?

If the new take starring Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Bell blasts off, where will the sci-fi adventurers go in a potential sequel? Continue reading FANTASTIC FOUR Sequel Power

YOUNG NEW MUTANTS of X-MEN: APOCALYPSE

Angel designs from X-Men: Apocalypse, an Empire exclusive
Angel designs from X-Men: Apocalypse, an Empire exclusive

Director Bryan Singer is filming X-Men: Apocalypse now in Montreal. James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence and Nicolas Hoult from First Class and Days of Future Past return for the cinematic showdown with an ancient enemy.

The sequel is set in the 1980’s with new actors playing younger versions of Jean Grey, Storm, Scott Summers, Nightcrawler and Angel or is it Archangel if you go by this preview art?

Producer Simon Kinberg explains these are not cameos but part of the larger story. Continue reading YOUNG NEW MUTANTS of X-MEN: APOCALYPSE

X-MEN APOCALYPSE Embraces 1980’s

Uncanny X-Men #377 courtesy Marvel
Uncanny X-Men #377 courtesy Marvel

X-Men: First Class was set in the 1960’s.

X-Men: Days of Future Past got groovy in the 1970’s.

X-Men: Apocalypse will be totally 1980’s.

 

Producer Simon Kinberg says he and director Bryan Singer are enjoying writing the sequel with that time period.

 

“We’re having a lot of fun with the idea of the 80s. It’s a decade that Bryan and I both grew up in and so the music, the style, the aesthetic, the legacy of 80s movies is something we’re really having fun with,” Kinberg told Collider. Continue reading X-MEN APOCALYPSE Embraces 1980’s

FANTASTIC FOUR Reboot Compared To BATMAN BEGINS

Ultimate Fantastic Four courtesy Marvel
Ultimate Fantastic Four courtesy Marvel

With the global launch of X-Men: Days of Future Past behind him there’s no rest for Simon Kinberg. The producer/writer is on the set of the Fantastic Four reboot. Movie franchises starring the Children of the Atom and Marvel’s First Family are both controlled by Fox.

 

In a new interview Kinberg tells The Daily Beast the tone of the Fantastic Four will be different:

 

“The tone of this movie will feel as unique as when you saw Iron Man, X-Men, or Batman Begins for the first time. Continue reading FANTASTIC FOUR Reboot Compared To BATMAN BEGINS