Fox Hates All the Comic Movies
Posted at 11:02 AM Aug 21, 2008
Not content with suing Warner Bros. to try and stop the Watchmen movie from ever being released (although yeah, they probably just want free money), Fox has set its sights on fucking around with another upcoming comic movie: it's own X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Word is that Fox exec Tom Rothman is—despite the jillion dollars The Dark Knight made this summer, clearly proving audiences prefer their superhero movies a bit dark—determined to make Wolverine more kid-friendly in tone. Right now, this has consisted to totally re-doing sets when director Gavin Hood has been away, without his knowledge.
If you look up Rothman, he's kind of the comic movie grim reaper, mercilessly slaying quality for his own totally inappropriate, senseless notions of what the public wants, and his two Fantastic Four movies and X-3 (the one X-Men movie he had the most control over). So...yeah. God only knows what'll happen, but they can never take away the summer of 2008 from us, nerds. We'll always have Iron Man/Incredible Hulk/The Dark Knight. Stay strong! (Via Defamer)
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I've come around to blaming a cocky/sloppy Warner Bros. for the Watchmen fiasco, but for God's sake, don't make this movie kid-friendly. Wolverine is a psycho killer, or at least, he used to be. I don't care if you have a cartoon to sell -- make it as dark as a PG-13 rating and the presence of Ryan Reynolds will allow.
Posted 08/21/2008 at 08:15:03 AMWhat the hell Fox, what the hell -.-'
Posted 08/21/2008 at 02:23:32 PMWha...?
Posted 08/21/2008 at 09:04:43 PMWhy would you DO that?
The Fox demon strikes again.
Posted 08/22/2008 at 04:47:13 AMSomebody over there seriously needs to be kicked in the balls.
This would be the equivilent of spider-man not having webs or something. The future of comic book movies does not look bright. (other than Avengers, of course.)
Posted 08/25/2008 at 11:06:45 PMThat'd mean more if the new Hulk movie wasn't only *slightly* less of a piece of shit than Ang Lee's.
Posted 08/28/2008 at 10:12:59 AM