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[QUOTE=phoenixzero23;4607110]Do any of you think any single member of the X-men outside Wolverine could carry a solo film?[/QUOTE]
What's the bar for success in this scenario? Does it have to A) make a profit B) be an interesting and unique film C) both D) other.
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[QUOTE=Ambaryerno;4607120]Gambit, Cable, and X-23 for certain. And Deadpool already does if you count him as an X-Character.[/QUOTE]
They definetely must have solo movies.
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[QUOTE=Ambaryerno;4607120]Gambit, Cable, and X-23 for certain. And Deadpool already does if you count him as an X-Character.[/QUOTE]
Could definitely see X-23. Dafne Keen could carry her own X-23 movie if given the right budget
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I actually had high hopes for a James Franco-Multiple Man movie.
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[QUOTE=Wolverine12;4607451]What's the bar for success in this scenario? Does it have to A) make a profit B) be an interesting and unique film C) both D) other.[/QUOTE]
interesting and unique, to me at least is what matters. If it is good it will sell. Like Guardians of the Galaxy did.
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[QUOTE=phoenixzero23;4607110]Do any of you think any single member of the X-men outside Wolverine could carry a solo film?[/QUOTE]
Before the MCU I would have told you very few. Now we have Ant-Man movies. The sky is the limit.
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[QUOTE=phoenixzero23;4607962]interesting and unique, to me at least is what matters. If it is good it will sell. Like Guardians of the Galaxy did.[/QUOTE]
Sales don't denote quality. There's plenty of hot garbage that still makes a lot of money
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[QUOTE=Wolverine12;4607451]What's the bar for success in this scenario? Does it have to A) make a profit B) be an interesting and unique film C) both D) other.[/QUOTE]
Both is good.
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Civil War made the line between solos and teamups very flexible. So concievably anyone could hold a solo if you pitch it right.
I imagine Disney+ shows are gonna replace solos in the MCU.
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[QUOTE=phoenixzero23;4607110]Do any of you think any single member of the X-men outside Wolverine could carry a solo film?[/QUOTE]
I'm probably going to get a lot of flack for this, but I feel like Kitty could work. If they reimagined her for today's audience, she could come across as a relatable figure for Gen z.
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[QUOTE=Ambaryerno;4607222]Kitty Pryde sounded like it was just a Bendis vanity thing. I really don't know that she could hold a solo. [/QUOTE]
10 years ago no one would have thought a Carol Danvers movie would have made over $425 Million at the domestic box office or over a billion globally either. So, it's not necessarily the character's appeal that can drive a movie like that. The interest in Avengers and how Captain Marvel would impact Endgame was one of the reasons for that movie's success.
The interest in the X-Men relaunch and how mutants would be integrated into the MCU could work in the favor of whatever the first MCU X-Men movie. It could be Maggott the Movie and people would go see it.
Rather than starting with a big X-Men movie with all the characters, starting small with a single character discovering he/she is a mutant and then discovering the wider mutant community is one approach they can take. Kitty has been used as that type of doorway character before.
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[QUOTE=ClanAskani;4610166]10 years ago no one would have thought a Carol Danvers movie would have made over $425 Million at the domestic box office or over a billion globally either. So, it's not necessarily the character's appeal that can drive a movie like that. The interest in Avengers and how Captain Marvel would impact Endgame was one of the reasons for that movie's success.
The interest in the X-Men relaunch and how mutants would be integrated into the MCU could work in the favor of whatever the first MCU X-Men movie. It could be Maggott the Movie and people would go see it.
Rather than starting with a big X-Men movie with all the characters, starting small with a single character discovering he/she is a mutant and then discovering the wider mutant community is one approach they can take. Kitty has been used as that type of doorway character before.[/QUOTE]
The difference is that Carol, like most Avengers, isn't so inheretely tied to a team like how Kitty and other X-Men are. By the time her movie was announced she already had 90+ solo issues.
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[QUOTE=phoenixzero23;4607110]Do any of you think any single member of the X-men outside Wolverine could carry a solo film?[/QUOTE]
A few years ago, I didn't think Ant Man or Aquaman could carry a solo film. Comics popularity doesn't have much to do with anything. It's all about the character and the concept. So yes, if someone had a good idea, a lot of characters could.
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Ant man succeeds by borrowing from heist films. Aquaman from fantasy adventures.
Who among the X-Men have that crap to pull from? Wolverine succeeds as a western, Deadpool as irreverent action comedy.
Magik, fantasy adventure. Gambit, heists. Bishop, buddy cops?
Just throwing it out there.
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Strictly solo? Probably none of them. Small (2-3) ensembles? Any of them. Captain Marvel and Ant-Man are not as much solo movies as small ensembles.
I could definitely see a Gambit-Rogue-Storm movie. Kitty-Wolverine-Colossus. Nightcrawler-Wolverine. Psylocke-Archangel-Iceman. There are endless possibilities depending on the story you want to tell. Cyclops-Havok-Starjammers. I could probably keep going.