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by David Bentley on February 24, 2009 05:28 PM The main storyline in X-Men: The Last Stand - the third movie in the series - centred on a cure for the mutant gene that gives the characters their superhuman abilities. It was based on two cure stories - one in the 1990s X-Men animated series, and the Gifted arc written by Joss Whedon in his Astonishing X-Men comic book. Whedon - most famous as creator and writer of Buffy the Vampire Slayer - now says he wasn't keen on the way his story was adapted in the X-Men film. In the movie, three main characters (X-Men member Rogue and villains Mystique and Magneto) end up cured, with Rogue taking it voluntarily because her life-draining touch renders her incapable of intimate human contact. But Whedon was unimpressed with the movie's version of events. He said: "I felt like it would have been nice to be paid. We were told they were using some of our stuff for the movie and..."Isn't that exciting?" You know, I'm sorry, but it's not that exciting, and I don't think it was handled well in the movie. I think they kind of glossed over it. So, ultimately it doesn't affect me. "You know when you write a Marvel comic, it's theirs. They own it and they can do whatever they want with it. We probably weren't the first people to come up with the idea of the mutant cure, though they did use some of our characters and specific situations. "But at the end of the day, they made it not matter: any argument about whether or not it's a terrible thing for people to be talking about curing mutants is kind of swept under the table. So ultimately I wish it had been handled better." Asked if he'd like to make a movie from a Marvel character, he said: "I've mentioned this to Marvel several times over the last couple of years: Kitty Pryde is out there. She's a pretty fascinating character with a very visual power ('phasing' through solid objects) who, the last time I saw, was played by Oscar nominee Ellen Page. And they don't seem to think that that's awesome. I don't know why. You know, I'm just sayin'." The images here show Ellen Page in her role as X-Men member Kitty Pryde in X-Men: The Last Stand. The character had smaller parts in the two previous X-Men movies, with Sumela Kay providing a cameo role in X-Men and Katie Stuart in X2: X-Men United. Whedon was speaking to Maxim, in an interview where he also discusses his Wonder Woman screenplay and why it's so hard getting DC Comics heroes on to the big screen. Source: blogs.coventrytelegraph.net |
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