X-MEN: FEAR THE BEAST Script Leaks Online; Fox Movie Featured Wolverine, Wendigo, And Mr. Sinister

X-MEN: FEAR THE BEAST Script Leaks Online; Fox Movie Featured Wolverine, Wendigo, And Mr. Sinister

The X-Men: Fear the Beast screenplay has found its way online, and it includes some crazy cameos, including from characters like Wendigo, Jean Grey, and even the return of Hugh Jackman has Wolverine...

By JoshWilding - Dec 08, 2022 02:12 PM EST
Filed Under: X-Men

Prior to Disney's acquisition of Fox, a number of X-Men spin-off movies were in the works. Kitty Pryde and Gambit projects were among them, as was X-Men: Fear the Beast, a movie penned by longtime franchise editor and composer John Ottman and Byron Burton. 

Now, the script has found its way online, and it certainly makes for interesting reading! 

In it, we find Nicholas Hoult's Hank McCoy/Beast struggling to control his mutation before heading to an Inuit village in an effort to help an old friend. The movie soon shows the hero battling hunters alongside the Wendigo, and often veers into R-Rated horror territory before shaking things up by bringing Hugh Jackman back as Wolverine (again). 

With a 1990s/early 2000s setting, Beast encounters Wolverine fighting in the same cage from the first X-Men movie. In this new timeline, Hank encounters him before Rogue does, and the two team up in the final act. 

There are cameos galore, including from Mystique and Jean Grey, while the movie ends with the introduction of Mr. Sinister. He was set to be the entire franchise's new bad, with early plans calling for Jon Hamm to play the villain across multiple movies (such as The New Mutants). 

Honestly, it's not great, and pretty much what we've come to expect from Fox's X-Men movies. There are moments here fans would have appreciated, but for the most part, it's full of odd continuity and creative decisions. It's also hard to figure out why Beast needed a spin-off (particularly when Hoult's werewolf-like interpretation was never overly popular). 

We'd recommend giving it a quick peruse, even if it's just for the scenes with Logan. Marvel Studios now plans to reboot the X-Men franchise, though we haven't seen the last of Jackman's take on the clawed mutant as he will return in Deadpool 3 a couple of years from now. 

You can read the screenplay by clicking here
 

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ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 12/8/2022, 3:03 PM
Hoult as Beast was good, but there's far more interesting X-Men to do a spinoff on. Always thought he would've made a better Cyclops anyway.
Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 12/9/2022, 9:36 PM
@ModHaterSLADE - you have that backwards: Hoult wasnt great as Beast but Beast is a great character that could lead the right movie.
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 12/10/2022, 1:08 PM
@Ryguy88 - NAH
Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 12/10/2022, 3:49 PM
@ModHaterSLADE - you make a strong case
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 12/10/2022, 5:43 PM
@Ryguy88 - Stronger than your goofy AF take at least...
Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 12/10/2022, 7:45 PM
@ModHaterSLADE - dont get upset my man
Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 12/8/2022, 3:05 PM
Wait wait wait wait wait.

A Fox X-Men movie that featured Wolverine? Why, that's completely unheard of and comes as a shock to me. A shock, I say.
ScaryTerry
ScaryTerry - 12/8/2022, 3:18 PM
@Reeds2Much - Wait…are you being sarcastic?
RolandD
RolandD - 12/8/2022, 3:29 PM
@Reeds2Much - Wolverine and the Fox-Men, always.
StSteven
StSteven - 12/8/2022, 3:54 PM
@Reeds2Much - I recently suffered a strong blow to the head in a freak leaf blower accident and can't remember Fox ever owning the rights to the X-Men, much less putting out movies based on them, so I'm assuming that you're being serious.
ScaryTerry
ScaryTerry - 12/8/2022, 3:57 PM
@StSteven - LMAO! Yours is better.
StSteven
StSteven - 12/8/2022, 4:53 PM
@ScaryTerry - Why are you laughing? Are you seriously telling me that they- no, no no, nononononono. Wait, hold on a sec... lemme fire up my Google machine... and search for... Oh SON OF A BITCH!!!! Those motherf**king c**ksuckers!!!! They did that? And then they did THAT?!? And what the hell is THAT supposed to be?!? You know what? I'll be right back... (goes and has a shot of whiskey, then tequila, then another whiskey, then pops a glass of scotch and kicks the dog on the way back for not telling him about this X-Men shit).

Okay, I'm back. I'm fine. Lemme just catch my breath... Okay, well I suppose it could be worse. At least Fox didn't get their hands on the Fantastic 4 and f**k that up too.
ScaryTerry
ScaryTerry - 12/8/2022, 5:17 PM
@StSteven - ROFL! Bad news!
StSteven
StSteven - 12/8/2022, 7:29 PM
@ScaryTerry - Oh, no! NONONONONONONO! You can't do this to me! They can't- ! How could they- ! NONONONONO! I have to check my Google machine. Just a sec... OH SONE OF BITCH HOW COULD THEY THOSE *&*^%$!!$%@#$&**&^%$#@@!#@$%$%$^&*&^%$#@!@#$@#@%&&*%!$@#^$ AND THOSE ^^&%$#@@#!*&*&?^%#$#@$$%%$#%&^ WITH A %^&&$#!@^%$&#&^@*&^%%&&^%KERS!!!!! AND I MEAN, AT LEAST ONCE AN HOUR!!!

(Goes to his bar, slams a bottle of Caribbean rum, then self-induces a massive head injury with a leaf blower (don't ask how).
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Hey guys! Did you catch that new Marvel movie "Blade" with Wesley Snipes? Dude, that movie was SWEET! Can't wait for it to come out on VHS so I can go rent it from Blockbuster and watch it again. I wonder if they're planning on making any more Marvel superhero movies...
Matchesz
Matchesz - 12/8/2022, 3:09 PM
They should have did an actual X Men 4 with Kelsey Grammer back, with all the wacky plots we ended up getting I would not have mind them bringing the original Cyclops back from his death along with the rest, I felt the original cast were better interpretations
CaptainDC
CaptainDC - 12/8/2022, 3:11 PM
I'm excited for XMEN to join the MCU and deliver a new, fresh take on the characters.

That said, this plot actually sounds pretty fun. While it wouldn't be overly necessary, it sounds like a fun flick.
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