Mark Miller joins Fox as creative consultant for Fox's Marvel shared Universe

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Fox wants the shared universe thing like Marvel has done with the Avengers, while that is fine for the Avengers it wouldn't work for X-Men

Solo films of Beast, Xavier, Iceman, Cyclops ect... just wouldn't work as the X-Men are primarily young teenagers when they attend the Xavier Institute and become Hero's while learning there, there isn't a significant enough story to tell before assembling the team.

However one of the best things about X-Men is the changes of events as time goes by and how the climate of Mutantkinds place in the world changes and the X-team roster changes.

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If i were in Miller's positiion, here's what i'd propose:

Several film series, each set in their own timeline, Five to Ten to Fifteen years apart.

The Vaughn Era / First Class
These films would feature the team just starting out, locating friendly Mutants and helping them adjust to their powers while stopping "evil" Mutants from outing Mutantkind to a world that isn't ready for them

The Singer / X-Men Era
These would encompass the existing X1 and X2 and continuing films that focus on the X-Team fighting for their place in the world while combatting "evil" Mutants and the Humans who wish to license, detain or kill their kind.

The Dystopian Future Era
These would encompass the last hope of Mutankind. With Mutantkind having been outlawed because of some catastrophe caused by a Mutant, the Majority of Mutants would be inprosoned in Concentration Camp and the rest hunted by Sentinels, while Human kind gradually become victim to the sentinels and martial law.
This would feature new Mutants from the previous films but also have characters feature or cameo from the earlier timeline where they look different, for instance Cyclops could go from the newbie clean cut leader he was in the Singer era and become a grissled 'do what has to be done' leader who looks older has longer hair a different costume and visor ect.


This series of different films strategy would give the same level of depth the MCU has (more so even) but instead of having them all feature at the same time and get muddled with which came first/after like the MCU, there would be clear reference points to the era from the different looks of the characters (Appearance, Age & Costume), to the climate of the worlds knowledge & reaction of to Mutantkind to the team rosters.

Doing this would mean a clear continuity of characters biogrophies and timeline which Miller and others would develop beforehand so a characters appearance and history would remain correct no matter which era they appear in, no matter who directs the films.

So for an example of that the Dystopain Future timeline could feature Juggernaut as an X-Man in his own unique costume played by an Actor and the "X-Men era" could introduce Juggernaut in his first Chronological debut in a different costume played by the same actor but this time as a villain.
So we the audience would know that at some point in the future he's join the X-Men.

Other possible film series could include sub-team like Havok or another key cahracter and his team battling the Shi'ar and discovering the Phoenix-Force in Space. That for example could infer that it's the Phoenix and it's host that causes the catastrophe that caused Mutantkind to be outlawed in the future, it would provide mystery and interest.

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I may have written this so it seems too confusing to a mainstream audience, but the jyst is this...

A series of films set in the '60's when the team first gets together and recruits while trying to keep Mutantkind under raps.

A Series of films set in the present with the team up against mutants and humans

A Series of films set in the future where Mutants are outlawed and treated like the Holocaust with the team battling extinction and Sentinal robots.

ALL of these timelines would adhere to a set continuity developed by the studio so there is no contradiction in characters Who've died suddenly featured alive in the future set films.

What do you guys think?


Namor is at home with Marvel Studios, where I hope to see him in a Defenders movie with Hulk and Strange. Fox can't use him.

Tha'ts odd considering he should've been aquired by Fox for either Fantastic Four or X-Men, those are where he's most known to be.
 
Tha'ts odd considering he should've been aquired by Fox for either Fantastic Four or X-Men, those are where he's most known to be.

Namor is a seperate property. He's appeared in FF but that doesn't make him a part of that franchise.

I was reading a bit of The Invaders the other day. That team was Captain America, Namor and the original Human Torch set during WWII.

It made me wonder if Marvel would have the stones to use the Jim Hammond Human Torch. That would be cool.
 
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His first appearance was the invaders so he may be owned as part of that, but he's more assossiated with FF & X-men so it would've seemed more likely he'd be owned by Fox
 
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