Excuse me if i have grammar or spelling mistakes, i don't live in an english-speaking country.
Being honest, the x-men haven’t really been on screen at its 100% splendor. We haven’t gottten costumes (Wolverine costume), we haven’t gottten the maximoff twins with magneto, we haven’t gottten genosha, we haven’t gotten normal sentinels... And it differs a lot from the source material. When you look at the x-men from the comics and the x-men from the movies they are very different.
Although of course this doesn’t mean that i don’t like these movies, because i enjoy them a lot, i’m just stating facts.
Last summer we got to see the come back of (almost all of the) original X-men cast. Now in a brief scene we got to see Xavier’s mansion with all of the X-Men back together including Jean Grey, Cyclops, Kitty... The x-men were back. This was a fresh new start on the x-men, a reboot but with the same actors that you love. Now we are getting X-Men: Apocalypse. When i first heard about this i actually thought that this was going to take place in the present and was going to be considered as x-men 4 just with some resurrected characters thanks to the inbetweequel X-Men: Days of Future Past and that it was going to continue with the x-men franchise.
But that’s not what’s gonna happen. Now the x-men franchise is going to continue in the 20
th century and that sets frontiers that will impide the filmakers to take certain liberties. For example now we are getting a teenage cyclops, teenage jean grey, teenage storm... and there are certain characters that they just can’t use anyore. This limitates a LOT the possibilities of the x-men movie universe which sucks. But i’m still super pumped and i think that this movie is going to rock, but i am still stating the truth here and i wanted to comment a little bit about it. No need to freak out.
But what if we could get a new X-Men film set in the present with Patrick Stewart’s Xavier versus Apocalypse! Hugh Jackman, the guys from the original trilogy and Magneto in Genosha with Apocalypse as the main villain. Superhero costumes, the blackbird... Kind of like the 90’s X-Men animated show, altough of course not exactly like it, because some stuff that can be made in cartoons, can’t be made in movies ‘cause maybe it would look bad. More like Wolverine and the x-men but only the style, not particularly the plot.
The movie would start practically were DOFP left off, and that is, Wolverine’s mind from the other timeline going back to the changed 2025. So he went to the past in 2025 and when he changed that key element his mind went back to 2025 but now in the X-Mansion. So in my version of X-Men Apocalypse he goes back to 2016, not 2025 because i want this to be in the present. Xavier explains to Wolverine all that’s happened through the years and that he knew that this moment would come, his other mind would return.
But the movie wouldn’t start with their conversation because it would be weird, it would start with a monologue of professor X, then an action scene maybe, and then cyclops and another x-man talking in the mansion’s garden: “They have been talking in there for a long time” and then we cut to Xavier and Wolverine. I would also like a moment of Wolverine talking about his timeline in wich he explains things that happened, so this would be a great opportunity to explain plotholes like:
- How did Xavier reappear?
- How did Magneto get his powers back?
- How did Wolverine get his adamantium claws back?
But reminding you that Wolverine is from another timeline makes the film not feel like a fresh start. So these explanations would just be in one scene and would never be mentioned again. But still, the fact that Wolverine is from the other timeline makes it feel like it’s not a new frash start, so in the next scene Wolverine would get out of the mansion, go to the garden and reunite with the X-Men. In this scene we would see Logan kind of like reaching happiness and realising that these people are the same that he used to hang out with, so maybe he just starts playing basketball against cyclops and Scott starts bitching or something and Wolverine is just happy and then everything is like before. Then enter: nightcrawler, psylock, colossus, emma frost, rogue, gambit... etc and of course Apocalypse and Magneto, who would have an awesome armour/costume and would live in Genosha with an awesome roster of evil mutants including Domino, Avalanche, Polaris and an epic giant CGI juggernaut!
With this, i’ve set up a new universe for the X-Men, and now it’s up to your imagination how the movie (and/or franchise) would continue. Xavier could just erase Logan's conscience of the other timeline (although i'm not sure if this would work) , but anyways, did you enjoy reading this article? Are you excited about X-Men: Apocalypse? I sure am. Thanks for reading, I am BaronZemo.