As Deadpool actor Karan Soni (Dopinder) revealed this week in Variety, we are preparing for several surprise cameos in Deadpool and Wolverine. Sadly, fans of X-Men: The Last Stand won’t be able to see the return of Vinnie Jones, who played Juggernaut in the 2006 film. Speaking to Yahoo Movies UK, Jones tells the outlet that […]
Matthew Vaughn says an exec tried to trick Halle Berry into joining X-Men: The Last Stand
Matthew Vaughn did direct an X-Men film with 2011’s X-Men: First Class, but his time with the franchise almost began a few years earlier. Sadly, it seems like a studio executive was pulling shady moves to lock in some castmates, which rubbed Vaughn the wrong way. While promoting his new film Argylle during his Saturday […]
X-Men: The Last Stand Turns 15 – Where The X-Franchise First Went Wrong
Ricky Church revisits X-Men: The Last Stand on its 15th anniversary… Superhero films may be all the rage now, but in the early 2000s they were rarely in development with only two or maybe three produced a year compared to the several we have now. In those early years of of the superhero genre, one […]
Vinnie Jones slams Brett Ratner over Juggernaut role in X-Men: The Last Stand
During an interview with Comic Book Movie to promote the release of his new film The Big Ugly, footballer-turned-movie star Vinnie Jones was asked for his recollections working on 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand, and whether he enjoyed his experience portraying the role of the Juggernaut. Well, it turns out he didn’t – and he […]
In Defense of Fox’s X-Men Franchise
EJ Moreno looks back on Fox’s X-Men franchise… During the start of the Fox/Disney merger, the Internet took a sharp turn when it came to discussing the X-Men films. While it was never universally loved, the long-running comic book series never had such negativity surrounding it. With many fans wanting to see these characters find […]
Ranking Fox’s X-Men Franchise from Worst to Best
Harrison Abbott ranks Fox’s X-Men franchise from worst to best… With X-Men: Dark Phoenix bringing the curtain down on the franchise, now feels like an appropriate time to look back on everything that Fox’s X-Men series gave us over the past two decades. Granted, there have been peaks and troughs. However, I maintain that the […]
X-Men: Dark Phoenix director says The Last Stand made the mistake of not going cosmic
Simon Kinberg, the director of X-Men: Dark Phoenix, says that X-Men: Last Stand’s‘s mistake was that it didn’t go cosmic. The latest adaptation of The Dark Phoenix Saga will soon hit our screens with Simon Kinberg’s X-Men: Dark Phoenix. This famous comic storyline has made it to cinemas once before with X-Men: The Last Stand, […]
Dark Phoenix director apologises for X-Men: The Last Stand
Long time X-Men writer and producer Simon Kinberg is set to bring the classic X-Men storyline The Dark Phoenix Saga to the big screen next year in X-Men: Dark Phoenix, having already taken one crack at the source material as screenwriter on X-Men: The Last Stand. The 2006 film was widely criticised by fans, particularly for […]
Making Sense Of The X-Men Movie Timeline(s)
Eric Bay-Andersen on making sense of the X-Men movie timeline(s)… To say that the X-Men movies are convoluted and confusing would be an understatement – over the past 17 years the franchise has seen multiple spin-offs, re-boots and re-castings, making any hope of coherence impossible. But there is a way to make (partial) sense out […]
How to fix the X-Men Cinematic Universe
Anghus Houvouras on how Fox can fix the X-Men: Cinematic Universe… Fox has been cultivating the X-Men cinematic universe for nearly two decades. It’s been that long since fans were first treated to Marvel’s most magnanimous mutants on the big screen. The first X-Men movie wasn’t perfect, but it was a solid first entry into […]
