James McAvoy Is Not Sure That The X-MEN Would Be A Good Fit For The Marvel Cinematic Universe

@L0RDbuckethead

I think he’s just talking about how it would be difficult to retcon mutants into the MCU.

Either way, it’s happening.

@L0RDbuckethead - I'd like to see Mcavoy heel turn and be Galactus or Doom. And Fassbender should become a hero.

@L0RDbuckethead - I guess being a good actor is not fit for the MCU? LOL. Michael fassbender and James McAvoy will put everyone's acting to the test.

But I'm not sure if Disney is willing to make a political film about equality? CW, BP, & TWS was tame because it focused more on the characters than message. Not sure if Disney is willing to sacrifice box office in China to include gays, politics, trans, etc. as those characters and topics are heavily censored over there.

China just passed a law where all films in theater must be the same cut as its release in other territories. No special or exclusive cut can be made for China. This is the biggest reason why Fox re-released Deadpool 2's PG-13 cut.

@mastakilla39 - You feel better after getting all that out?

I just don't think McAvoy is right for Xavier, never have.

He's a good actor. Same with Fassbender.

@DnA - yeah, outside of the Deadpool characters, we can expect all the Fox-Men to get recast

@mastakilla39 - There are great actors who are not necessarily those actors. No one disputed Andrew Garfield as an actor; it was just a clean slate thing. Tom Hanks as Professor X and Denzel Washington as Magneto or go against type (since he was literally Malcolm X), Denzel as Professor X and Tom Hanks as Magneto. Eva Green as Mystique. And don't get me started on potential Cyclops. Acting wise, we will do fine. Feige will make sure these are treated as A-properties.

@mastakilla39 - I felt like Fox barely touched on the mutant hatred side of things, even in First Class. Aside from some random news videos, it was hardly ever a pressed point in the Fox films.

@adamcawa - I think the original trilogy already did enough. Fox already did the cure arc, god loves men kills comic, and phoenix arc. The first class trilogy did days of future past & apocalypse. So I think enough was said about mutant vs humans.

@DalekCraigWasson - Correct, the X-Men have countless stories to tell. But in my opinion, the most popular ones have already been adapted.

The problem with the MCU is each film leads into an Avengers team up. That has only been working because the MCU is mostly comprised of solo characters and unknown teams who’s comic universes are not that big. So when an Avengers film happens its an easy sell to see them unite and easy to fill them in. I am already noticing a problem with the MCU's Spiderman is the stories they are telling have to be generic and small. Spider-Man cannot have a major events (like the spider-verse) or go through drastic changes (like the human spider mutation arc) because those stories will affect the avengers film and potentially overshadow it. So the MCU is already stuck in a creative dilemma because the Spider-Man & X-Men franchises are too big to fit into the MCU. Spider-Man and X-Men have multi-verses and time travel stories that are too big for the MCU to handle. Spider-Man and X-Men have enough material to create their own universe.

@DalekCraigWasson - As someone who grew up reading and loving those books, there's so much stuff they overlooked or outright botches. There have been some great highs, but also notable lows. Overall, it's been inconsistent and, more often than not, mediocre.

More than anything, I don't think they ever really completely captured the overall feel and the spirit, which is what Marvel Studios just so happens to do best. They never bothered to invest much time outside the Prof X/Magneto/Wolverine trio, with Mystique being lumped in because they wanted to capitalize on Jennifer Lawrence.

And in the process they completely botched/ignored classic characters like Colossus (the Deadpool team nailed him on their first try) and Storm, so I'm more than ready to give somebody else a try. Especially when that somebody has consistently captured the essence of why we love any of these characters in the first place.

@rabid - lol. No they wont. Feige will have complete control over Xmen. Everything will be rebooted even the actors. Mcavoy is just trying to keep his job.

@newhire13 - And?

He stil wants to keep a lucrative source of income. One of the Most lucrative sources of income for actors at this point, being part of a superhero franchise. That has nothing to do with whether anything he said is valid or not.

And I think what he said is not valid. In a world with only a few heroes the "social implications" of that has already changed that entire universe. Having more or less superpowered beings at this point is not as much of an issue as he's making it.

@DillonEnnis - Actually Infinity War set this up perfectly. Wanda and Pietro received their powers after being subjugated to the mind Stone. You can have it be activating the X-Gene used to be very rare. But then when half the population was wiped and brought back, it triggered the X-Gene for thousands of potential mutants. So you have established superheroes who are loved as a thing, and now random mutants popping up everywhere scaring the public. So now you have the public having 2 clear distinctions between the 2 factions

@DillonEnnis - TBH the comics don't really address this issue either. I think the X-Men rarely crossed over with the Avengers because if 2 overpowered teams united it was too hard for the writers to make a good story. X-men has always been about equality and Avengers about the everyday struggle of being a superhero. The avengers never encountered a problem about equality until Civil War's Superhero Registration act which was a rip-off of X-Men's Mutant Control act. They tried to explain this plothole when they formed the Illuminati, but like you said it was clunky.

If the MCU wants to introduce mutants into the MCU without dimension warping or reality bending they just have to follow the Illuminati arc. Have Tony Stark form the Illuminati without Cap's approval to govern all kinds of threats. Have Tony explain why mutants never appeared in any films because he appointed Xavier to handle all mutant related problems from the public's eye. Then introduce Hope Summers who is brought into the past by Cable/Deadpool and scare the Avengers because she was prophesied to end the world. Then have Cable, Deadpool, & the X-Men fight the Avengers in an epic 2 film event like Infinity War to determine Hope Summer's fate.

@DalekCraigWasson - This is along the lines of what I think should be done. I think they should shine a light on the issue and it can be as if not more of a profound story beat than when it was used in the early X-Men films. @mastakilla39 you hit the nail on the head in terms of what I was talking about with how it isn't really that clear in the comics, which is why I think it would be even more important to address in live action. How they specifically bring them into the universe is almost secondary to dealing with the X-Men thematically in my opinion.

@Spock0Clock - those numbers work for me. I even like the idea being floated by others that the power of the Infinity Stones affects the X-gene, making it more active or just less genetically recessive, and so the pre-teens with the gene in the half of the population that got wiped out and (presumbably) restored are more likely to develop mutant powers (or significant ones) now, and the same is true with babies being born after all of this, leading to it becoming a crisis.

@Chewtoy - at the height of mutant kind, when the attack on Genosha takes place, it's revealed there are about 30 million mutants worldwide. MDay shredded those numbers down to less than 200.