Joss Whedon eager for X Men 3

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UPDATED: Friday, August 13, 2004 18:44
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CAPTAINCDC

Thursday, August 12, 2004 8:41 PM

This is the story from www.aintitcoolnews.com :

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Joss Whedon Talks To Hercules About X-MEN 3!!
I am – Hercules!!

I finally got to meet Joss Whedon yesterday. I can’t tell you everything we talked about – yet. But here’s one of the most interesting parts I can relay:
“I have not been offered [“X-Men 3”]," said Whedon. “Would I like to make an X-Men movie? That’d be bitchin’. I actually really like those actors and I really like those characters and there’s a lot that could be done with it and it’d be a romp. But I’m not setting my sights on that, I setting my sights on exactly one thing, which is [Whedon’s feature directorial debut, “Serenity.”]
“Serenity” wraps principal photography in about 10 days.
Would the folks at Marvel like to hire Whedon? “Major Tom” sent in this snippet of an IGN Filmforce interview with Marvel Enterprises head Avi Arad from February:
IGNFF: At one point, wasn't Joss Whedon up for (Iron Man)?

ARAD: Joss Whedon never wrote a draft of it. We wished! Believe me, we tried very hard, but he got busy with Firefly.

IGNFF: Are there any hopes to tap him again at some point for another project?

ARAD: Oh yeah! We're going to land him… He's a tough cookie, but we'll get him.

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

ANKHAGOGO

Friday, August 13, 2004 12:46 AM

I really, really would love to see Whedon write the next X-Men movie, especially considering what I assume is coming next in the storyline. That would just be too excellent for words, what with the thing and the other thing and the other things I-don't-know-anything-about.

Eomer: "Hi! Stop me if you've heard this one ...an elf, a dwarf, and a man walk into the Riddermark..."

CAPTAINCDC

Friday, August 13, 2004 3:14 PM

I agree. I would love to see what Joss could do with Xmen3 especially the Dark Phoenix Saga. We all know how well he can write for women.

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

HJERMSTED

Friday, August 13, 2004 6:44 PM

Bryan Singer is definitely OFF the X3 project as director. He could still executive produce... but what the hell does that mean, really?

Fox made him clear out his offices on their lot even.

Fox, apparently, is not very happy with Singer taking on huge genre-related projects elsewhere.

Go Joss!!!
Personally, I believe Joss could assemble a great team to produce Buffy-verse films and still write/direct an X-Feature. He is that amazing.

mattro

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