CinemBlend carried and article discussion from a Crave Online interview and the nuts and bolts of it is that the lady who has produced all the X-Men movies is up for crossing the streams.
As I mentioned in my previous post about why I chose to have this series “air” on Fox, I mentioned that the ideal situation would be for Fox and Marvel to make a deal to produce the tv-series since Fox holds the cinematic licensing rights to the characters but Marvel has a better grasp on bringing those characters to life. Apparently the producer is up for such a cross-over/team-up on a larger scale ala the films.
Many commenters have cried gold-digger as Avengers has done so well and everyone wants a piece of that pie. The way I look at it, if it gets us an awesome X-Men/Avengers team-up movie (or closer to an X-Men live action tv series) then they can gold dig all they want.
The real problem is with the fact that Avengers is tonaly different from X-Men, especially in how X-Men attempted to make a more realistic spin on the comics while Avengers, while more realistic than the comics, is a lot more apt to ‘just go with it’. Also, unless they work it with the reboot supposedly happening with Days of Future Past, most of the main characters everyone knows are dead or been horribly mis-characterized (not to mention the actors are older and moved on).
Still, this could work, in the hands of the right writers, director, etc, a crossover movie more epic than Avengers is possible. All of the origin’s are out of the way for the Avengers team, depending on what we see in more X-Men films, those origins should be out of the way too. All you really need is a reason for them to either team up and/or fight each other and just let them go to town!
Personally, I’d have the movie start with the Avengers stumbling into an X-Men vs Brotherhood scenario and Rogue just kicking the butts of the Avengers (which is totally canon)… but then I am biased.
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