Lauren Shuler Donner says she's considering DC Comics’ Metal Men comic for a new super-hero film franchise.
"It's a DC comic. It's for Warner [Brothers]," she told Superhero Hype. "It's 'Metal Men' which is much more like 'Men in Black'. It's miles away from 'X-Men'. It's lighter and it's fun. A lot of CGI. That would be fun for me to try a whole did kind of comic."
Regarding X-Men: The Last Stand, considered the end of the X-franchise: "It's a really good movie. It's the best of the three. I can only tell you that. I think it's going to be huge. I am thrilled with it. Just thrilled with it."
Will there be no more X-films? "Our original goal was to have like 'Star Wars', 'X-Men' 7, 8, 9 and 10 because there are certainly enough comics out there. And of course to have spin-offs. It would be nice as we incorporated new characters into each movie if they could continue to move on."
Donner confirmed the Wolverine spin-off movie but wouldn’t reveal if a director has been attached or if any other X-Men would cameo.
"The 'X-Men' franchise is so far above everybody," Shuler Donner said. "The characters are psychologically developed for all those years as compared to some of these other comics. It's so hard to tell a comic book story. Especially the first one. The origins, because you actually have to speak to the non fans. You have to explain the world and the good guys and bad guys. What's the overall story? They're very hard. I tend to go no, no, no, no and stick within the X-Men world and I have another one we're developing too. It's like anything. There's a lot of scripts out there but there's only a few good ones."
X-Men: The Last Stand hits theaters on May 26.
Meanwhile, a new photo from the film shows Multiple Man (Eric Dane), Mystique (Rebecca Romijn), Magneto (Ian McKellen) and Pyro (Aaron Stanford) – see below.
Here's the film's official description:
"In X-Men: The Last Stand, a 'cure' for mutancy threatens to alter the course of history. For the first time, mutants have a choice: retain their uniqueness, though it isolates and alienates them, or give up their powers and become human. The opposing viewpoints of mutant leaders Charles Xavier, who preaches tolerance, and Magneto, who believes in the survival of the fittest, are put to the ultimate test - triggering the war to end all wars."
And, Activision released this description of the official movie game:
This Memorial Day, the X-Men return to the big screen, and two weeks before fans will get their first taste in X-Men: The Official Game, courtesy of Activision and the creators of X-Men Legends.
The game itself is not a re-telling, or re-playing if you will, of the story of the film, but is a bridge between X2: X-Men United and X-Men: The Last Stand, leading up to the start of the new film (that explains, among other things, why Nightcrawler does not appear in the new film) in a new story written for the game by Zak Penn, one of the writers of both "X2" and "The Last Stand," and long-time X-Men comic writer Chris Claremont.
In the game, players control three characters - Iceman, Nightcrawler, and of course, Wolverine - through the branching, and occasionally overlapping, storyline, allowing players to go through some levels multiple times, gaining different perspectives on the story each time.
"We picked those three characters," developers said, "because of the variety of their movement. They're so different and they each require a different set of skills. Iceman rides his ice sleds and is the only character with distance attacks, and his levels reflect that. Nightcrawler, who was in many ways the hardest, has his acrobatic abilities and his teleportation, and Wolverine is there for the hack and slash... he also had a very difficult health system to model, because his power is regeneration, and its very easy for that kind of character to become unintentionally unbeatable."
Of the three characters, the biggest breakthrough came on Nightcrawler, creating a truly intuitive control system that mixes his acrobatic abilities and teleportation abilities effortlessly. With just a few moments play, Nightcrawler is quickly jumping, flipping, and bamfing around his levels. "And some of the testers can really rip it by now... they'll have him 'porting and attacking multiple enemies without ever touching the ground." X-Men: The Official Game also includes a slight RPG element, as in-between levels, players can increase selected abilities of their characters, making them better fighters, or faster, or able to take more damage, etc.
There are roughly ten bosses spread throughout the 30 odd levels of the game, including the chance at the beginning to replay two of the bigger fights from the first two films; Wolverine versus Sabertooth atop the Statue of Liberty, and Wolverine versus Deathstrike in the depths of Weapon X.
Not all elements for the game were available during the preview - the cut scenes consisted of crudely animated models as they were still in the process of being completed, and according to producers, an announcement is imminent concerning the "well-known" voice talent that has signed on to the game.
X-Men: The Official Game will be available this May for the PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360, GameCube, Nintendo DS, Game Boy Advance and PC.
