If they incorporate post retcon Moira they'll use the multiverse instead of resetting time i assume
Storm's powers "don't translate very well"? Just because they've botched any sort of character development, doesn't mean her powers are hard to translate - check out Thor and throw in more variety! Easy breezy.
Cyclops is a challenge because that stupid visor or red shades prevent the actor from using his eyes to convey emotion. The films have also screwed up his optic blasts, tending to make them look like red lightning, and often hot.
But Storm? There's just been a lack of creativity as far as she's concerned and if/when they get a capable actress and writers interested in telling her story, she SHOULD be just fine.
The makeup heavy X-Men, like furry Beast and Nightcrawler are also tricky. It usually looks like someone in heavy makeup. There needs to be a decision to make them largely CGI, similar to the Hulk or Iron Man, when the time comes to include them. That blue face paint has been a step above Halloween junk from Target for YEARS. And their hands/feet are equally goofy looking. It's a tough assignment, I know. Nightcrawler is my favorite, but other than quick combat scenes, it looks like an actor in makeup and it's distracting.
To expand upon the current rumors, it sounds like spoilers:end of spoilers
Xavier is leading a multiversal Illuminati type team, including Captain Carter from What If. Is it technically still considered an X-Men team even if Xavier is the only real mutant of the bunch?
Moira's retcon fits perfectly, and would be a good way to explain why Xavier, Magneto, Wolverine, etc, weren't around to help against Thanos, Ultron, whatnot (she knows the heroes would win without them, maybe even make matters worse if they show up).
In your mind, how does her retcon explain why they weren’t around? Are you saying they were in hiding during those events?
Yeah. Wolverine can be explained by him being a loner under the radar who didn't even knew what was going on until later, the other X-men for being too young and possibly not even having their powers (another reason why starting with them as adults is stupid), but Xavier and Magneto doing nothing against Thanos, Chiaturi, Ultron (hell, Magneto could have solved the latter by himself) is harder.
Gotcha. So definitely more of an Ultimate X-men take on mutants then, in that most of them didn’t exist prior to The Snap or whatever. There was a rumor to that effect awhile back.
I think it's easy enough to believe Magneto just didn't care to try to save human cities, especially if he wasn't in NYC or Sokovia at the time.
I don't think an alien invasion or a murdering robot are good news for mutants.
Yeah, short of them arriving from a parallel universe (which causes problems in itself), you must have something that make the numbers rising now and explains why they weren't around to help against Thanos or Ultron.
Why would that need explaining? It happened very fast in the middle of Africa. There was no news crews there filming it. No one outside of Wakanda would have had any idea what was going on there until much latter when the Avengers explained what happened. Same with the attack on Avengers HQ. It happened so fast and was in an out of the way place why would guys like Xavier, Magneto, or any others have any idea. Even if they did by the time they got mobilized and got there the battle would have been over.