Heat Vision reports that Twentieth Century Fox plans on beginning the shoot for its sequel in January, meaning that there will be no conflict over Jennifer Lawrence with Lionsgate over the filming of the Hunbger Games sequel Catching Fire.

 
The trade says that Fox was originally planning on filming the Matthew Vaughn-directed "X-Men" follow-up this fall, which would have conflicted with Lawrence's  Catching Fire a movie Lionsgate is targeting for an August-September start date. If that had happened, however, Fox would have won out considering the studio would have been able to exercise the sequel option on her contract, which she signed before her "Hunger Games" deal.

Lawrence will reprise her role of Mystique and is expected to be joined again by the likes of James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Rose Byrne, January Jones, Nicholas Hoult, Caleb Landry Jones and Lucas Till.
 

I'm not particularly excited for it. Where can the story go? 

@Illuminatus said:

I'm not particularly excited for it. Where can the story go?

Stories write themselves, my only guess magneto and his team will upset the relationships with mutants and humans while the x-men will try to stop him. I remember on an article g-man wrote where he said that there will be a villain that's on par with magneto.

I'm not particularly excited for it. Where can the story go? 

@Illuminatus said:

I'm not particularly excited for it. Where can the story go?

Stories write themselves, my only guess magneto and his team will upset the relationships with mutants and humans while the x-men will try to stop him. I remember on an article g-man wrote where he said that there will be a villain that's on par with magneto.

@Illuminatus said:

I'm not particularly excited for it. Where can the story go? 

lots of places, the X-Men weren't even technically X-Men in the first movie..they were just random assembled mutants who wound up fighting evil mutants...

Evil is a point of view. Magneto and Co. see themselves as the good guys.

@Illuminatus said:

Evil is a point of view. Magneto and Co. see themselves as the good guys.

You know what I meant    -__-

@Illuminatus said:

@moywar700 said:

@Illuminatus said:

I'm not particularly excited for it. Where can the story go?

Stories write themselves, my only guess magneto and his team will upset the relationships with mutants and humans while the x-men will try to stop him. I remember on an article g-man wrote where he said that there will be a villain that's on par with magneto.

Ugh. Sounds like yet another film where Magneto is the villain. Does Hollywood not realize that the X-Men have numerous villains more interesting than Magneto?

@cattlebattle said:

@Illuminatus said:

I'm not particularly excited for it. Where can the story go?

lots of places, the X-Men weren't even technically X-Men in the first movie..they were just random assembled mutants who wound up fighting evil mutants...

Evil is a point of view. Magneto and Co. see themselves as the good guys.

Maybe this film will bring about someone who conflicts with both Xavier and Magneto's plans, just like X2. I feel there wasn't much to their friendship in First Class, which was my only issue with the movie.

Maybe this film will bring about someone who conflicts with both Xavier and Magneto's plans, just like X2. I feel there wasn't much to their friendship in First Class, which was my only issue with the movie.

@cattlebattle said:

Yeah, sorta. :P  Still, I'm just not really interested in seeing another Xavier vs. Lensherr film. I'm just glad that Wolverine really doesn't have anything to do with them.

@Illuminatus said:

@cattlebattle said:

Yeah, sorta. :P  Still, I'm just not really interested in seeing another Xavier vs. Lensherr film. I'm just glad that Wolverine really doesn't have anything to do with them.

Oh, I agree, I would love to see someone else be the main villain. It has to do with contracts. in the first X-Men film series they signed Ian Mckellan on for three films..so they kind of had to use him in some capacity,  I believe with these films, which didn't have an inclusive 3 movie deal apparently, they figured Fassbender was basically the star of the first one....so I guess the old adage "If it ain't broke don't fix it" applies

@cattlebattle said:

You have a point there, but contracts shomtracts. Try and make an innovative film instead of just pandering to the masses with the same stories over and over again.

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Maybe this film will bring about someone who conflicts with both Xavier and Magneto's plans, just like X2. I feel there wasn't much to their friendship in First Class, which was my only issue with the movie.

Then......all hope has been lost

@BlackArmor said:

Then......all hope has been lost

So much for an X-Men movie that makes since with their history....

I'm looking forward to it. I totally forgot the girl who played Katniss was Mystique. Huh. 
 
Anyway, the story could go anywhere. I mean, they have decades to explore, countless characters to establish and introduce, and numerous villains to fight (even though I'm still totally ok with Magneto) 
 
As far as I'm concerned, all I want is Michael Fassbender to be Magneto forever. If he's involved, I'll follow this franchise to the end.

I'm thinking there's going to be a threat that Xavier and Magneto need to work together to solve. I also want Kevin Bacon to show up as Mr. Sinister and say that Sebastian Shaw was a construct. And maybe have Gambit as another construct but turns against his creator and goes good.

I'm thinking there's going to be a threat that Xavier and Magneto need to work together to solve. I also want Kevin Bacon to show up as Mr. Sinister and say that Sebastian Shaw was a construct. And maybe have Gambit as another construct but turns against his creator and goes good.

@PrinceIMC said:

I'm thinking there's going to be a threat that Xavier and Magneto need to work together to solve. I also want Kevin Bacon to show up as Mr. Sinister and say that Sebastian Shaw was a construct. And maybe have Gambit as another construct but turns against his creator and goes good.

This would be so awesome.

MEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

bump

I wish they hadn't rushed things at the end of First Class. They turned Magneto and Xavier into enemies and Mystique and Magneto into partners within minutes with very little motivation. I think it was a disappointing ending for an otherwise great movie, and having the characters change sides all of a sudden also destroyed all the possibilities of exploring interesting things like the friendship between Erik and Charles and Magneto's descent into villainhood in the possible sequel. Maybe it was just that they weren't absolutely sure whether there was going to be a sequel and wanted to wrap things up just in case.

I think that Xavier & Erik friendship was one of the best and most interesting things about the movie, so I hope that they'll still be friends in the sequel, even though Erik has already become Magneto. I'm also hoping that Magneto will not be the main villain of this movie because I'm hoping he'll be portrayed as a semi-hero for the most part of the film. And there are plenty of other villain in the series to choose from anyways (Sinister, Sinister, Sinister!).

@moywar700 said:

@Illuminatus said:

I'm not particularly excited for it. Where can the story go?

Stories write themselves, my only guess magneto and his team will upset the relationships with mutants and humans while the x-men will try to stop him. I remember on an article g-man wrote where he said that there will be a villain that's on par with magneto.

Ugh. Sounds like yet another film where Magneto is the villain. Does Hollywood not realize that the X-Men have numerous villains more interesting than Magneto? 
 

No way. Magneto's, like, the most interesting guy ever. What's wrong with you?

Nah, I totally respect you. Also, I wouldn't want to see them beat up Michael Fass. He was my favorite part of the first one, besides the Wolverine cameo.

Personally: i think that there is alot they can do with the story and for villain i thinking Mr. Sinister...

@Mercy_ said:

MEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

this except even less enthusiastic

Then......all hope has been lost

Awesome, I really liked the 1st movie. Will be watching this, although I do agree that they should use a different villain for the sequel, like Mr. Sinister.

@cattlebattle: Yeah I was hoping they would reboot again and make "The Wolverine" a separate franchise. I guess there have been worse X-men movies than first class but not many imo.......

Awh yay.

@cattlebattle: Yeah I was hoping they would reboot again and make "The Wolverine" a separate franchise. I guess there have been worse X-men movies than first class but not many imo.......

@cattlebattle said:

@BlackArmor said:

@cattlebattle: Yeah I was hoping they would reboot again and make "The Wolverine" a separate franchise. I guess there have been worse X-men movies than first class but not many imo.......

I think X-Men, X2, and First Class were all great, well done films...even if you have a problem with character usage I think people can still appreciate the acting, cinematography, attention to detail, dialogue, story etc... I would like a reboot, but only if it dealt with a really good storyline, otherwise, I like the original stuff the movies usually propose

I liked the acting.....of 2 actors.....when I went to see it I felt like Prof X and Magneto carried the whole thing and everything else struck me as average or below. I understand why people like it and I admit to bias because of character use but I honestly don't feel like it was good enough to justify the creative liberty they took. I liked it better than Origins but that was it.

@cattlebattle said:

@BlackArmor said:

I liked the acting.....of 2 actors.....when I went to see it I felt like Prof X and Magneto carried the whole thing and everything else struck me as average or below. I understand why people like it and I admit to bias because of character use but I honestly don't feel like it was good enough to justify the creative liberty they took. I liked it better than Origins but that was it.

@cattlebattle: The X history is certainly convoluted but not unworkable to the point of changing up things like First Class did. I was majorly underwhelmed by it and place it on the level of Green Lantern. I think people give First Class more credit than the Marvel Studios movies, at least that's what I've seen sure Cap Ironman and Thor were a little predictable but not much more than 1st class if you think your way through the movie while watching it and I think that the Marvel Studios movies have more positive aspects than First Class that relied almost solely on 2 or at times 3 actors. Honestly I enjoyed X3 more than first class simply because it was so bad that it was interesting but First Class has never hit me more than meh

@PrinceIMC said:

@Gambit1024 said:

@PrinceIMC said:

I'm thinking there's going to be a threat that Xavier and Magneto need to work together to solve. I also want Kevin Bacon to show up as Mr. Sinister and say that Sebastian Shaw was a construct. And maybe have Gambit as another construct but turns against his creator and goes good.

This would be so awesome.

That's been my idea ever since I saw the movie. Same as if they ever made X-Men 4 I wanted it to be about depowered Magneto searching for his daughter Lorna and trying to get his hands on the mutant making machine from the first X-Men to repower himself and anyone else that lost their powers because of those darts in X-Men: Last Stand.

That actually sounds like a really great X4 movie!! Could be a step up from that extremely disappointing X-Men the last stand movie and the wolverine one!! On the Xavier school side of the movie it could focus on the younger generation and such while (like u said) on Magneto's side it could focus on him trying to find his long lost daughter and a repowerment machine!!

January Jones!? Ugh, I no like. Hunger games girl also played a very forgettable Mystique.

@Gambit1024 said:

@PrinceIMC said:

I'm thinking there's going to be a threat that Xavier and Magneto need to work together to solve. I also want Kevin Bacon to show up as Mr. Sinister and say that Sebastian Shaw was a construct. And maybe have Gambit as another construct but turns against his creator and goes good.

This would be so awesome.

That's been my idea ever since I saw the movie. Same as if they ever made X-Men 4 I wanted it to be about depowered Magneto searching for his daughter Lorna and trying to get his hands on the mutant making machine from the first X-Men to repower himself and anyone else that lost their powers because of those darts in X-Men: Last Stand.

@PrinceIMC said:

@Gambit1024 said:

@PrinceIMC said:

I'm thinking there's going to be a threat that Xavier and Magneto need to work together to solve. I also want Kevin Bacon to show up as Mr. Sinister and say that Sebastian Shaw was a construct. And maybe have Gambit as another construct but turns against his creator and goes good.

This would be so awesome.

That's been my idea ever since I saw the movie. Same as if they ever made X-Men 4 I wanted it to be about depowered Magneto searching for his daughter Lorna and trying to get his hands on the mutant making machine from the first X-Men to repower himself and anyone else that lost their powers because of those darts in X-Men: Last Stand.

I was reading your conversation....gotta admit, good stuff,   I thought Sebastian Shaw in First Class was supposed to be Shaw/Sinister mash up....he has a lot more in common with Sinister anyways. The obsession with genetics, having more than one identity, his color scheme as he would have a dark blue or black suit with a red tie or red ascot on usually, his eyes even turn red briefly when he is absorbing the bullets when he breaks into the government facility, hell...Riptide was even one of his henchmen.   So, Sinister having Shaw as one of his proxies is a great idea

And his whole touching and exploding things was a bit more Gambit than Sebastian Shaw. I kinda hope that in the Nazi camp it was Sinister (where he displayed no powers) but something happened so he started making constructs for people like Erik to hunt down. Give each proxy a mutant power from a pool of mutant abilities he's cataloged to have them assemble mutants. So in a sequel he plants one in Magneto's brotherhood and one in Xavier's X-Men. That's how I would write it anyway.

@PrinceIMC said:

And his whole touching and exploding things was a bit more Gambit than Sebastian Shaw. I kinda hope that in the Nazi camp it was Sinister (where he displayed no powers) but something happened so he started making constructs for people like Erik to hunt down. Give each proxy a mutant power from a pool of mutant abilities he's cataloged to have them assemble mutants. So in a sequel he plants one in Magneto's brotherhood and one in Xavier's X-Men. That's how I would write it anyway.

Yeah...that was yet another thing he had in common with Sinister over Shaw, he was a Nazi...forgot that one. His ability touch and make things explode was derived from his absorption abilities..he was just dealing out the effects of what he took in, well, thats how I thought it worked anyways Dude, are you a writer?? because those are some good ideas you just blerted out there. I agree with what you guys were saying, Gambit should have been a mole on the X-Men, that was actually the original intention for him in the comics, I don't know if he was supposed to be working for Sinister though, that was never folloed through with and sort of retconned into his Mutant Massacre participation

@cattlebattle said:

Yeah it's just in the comics his absorbing abilities just made him stronger, the making things explode thing was kinda new and just kept reminding me of Gambit the whole time.  I'd like to be a writer, I think I'm a good idea guy but have trouble following through, I always get distracted and move on to something else. I've only really started writing regularly in the past few months in the fan-fiction board here. Though for like ten years I was involved with a text based RPG mostly comic related that helped me get better. I may never make money at it but I enjoy doing it. Yeah exactly, Gambit as a traitor or spy is exactly how they should handle it. And if Magneto was kinda the 'Wolverine' of First Class then Gambit could totally fill that role in a sequel.

Awesome, but I want Polaris to join.

Since Havok is on the team, could we get a Polaris/Havok romance going? I mean the Moira and Charles romance was cute but rather dry.

@PrinceIMC said:

@Gambit1024 said:

@PrinceIMC said:

I'm thinking there's going to be a threat that Xavier and Magneto need to work together to solve. I also want Kevin Bacon to show up as Mr. Sinister and say that Sebastian Shaw was a construct. And maybe have Gambit as another construct but turns against his creator and goes good.

This would be so awesome.

That's been my idea ever since I saw the movie. Same as if they ever made X-Men 4 I wanted it to be about depowered Magneto searching for his daughter Lorna and trying to get his hands on the mutant making machine from the first X-Men to repower himself and anyone else that lost their powers because of those darts in X-Men: Last Stand.

That would actually be a pretty good plot point for First Class. Magneto and Mystique popped out a kid or two and one or both of them get kidnapped. Mystique asks Charles for help and they get together and kick the bad guys (Please god let it be Sinister) ass. Theres one thing I wanna know if they put Angel Salvadore in there are they gonna put that abomination Beak in there too? What about their monstrous insectoid offspring?

Sounds cool.

I wouldn't be surprised if mystique got the most character development because the actress that plays her got popular through the hunger games.

Great I loved the previous film.