The X-Men reboot director Jake Schreier has commented on the comic book runs that will inspire the film. Plus, writer Lee Sung Jin speaks about being a big Gambit fan as he works on a new draft with co-writer Joanna Calo.
Collider caught up with Schreier and Lee Sung Jin in two separate articles linked appropriately. Let’s start with director Jake Schreier who told the outlet what comic runs are inspiring his vision for the X-Men reboot.
“I also think just having the time to kind of sit back, and I’ve just been digging into so many of the old comics and the entire Claremont run, and just going through stuff and really trying to think about what can we do well that feels new and feels different, and that hasn’t been done well before? Obviously, there’s such an incredible cinematic tradition of these comics, but what can we do? And how can we put our own spin on what that is?”
“When you go back, and you read all of X-Men, and you see how much of it was also, obviously, the ideology is a huge part of what drives the narrative, but also the interpersonal and there’s a soap opera quality to it. When you go back and read those original comics, I think having writers who understand both of those things and how to kind of drive that ideology from more personal risks, if we can get all of those things right, and in a way, that’s the thing that will feel most honest to what X-Men can be.”
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Meanwhile Lee Sung Ji, who is co-writing this draft of the script with Joanna Calo talks about what X-Men means to him. Also, who his favourite X-Men character was growing up.
“Oh man, I don’t know what I’m allowed to say. Where’s my publicist? I know that there was a previous draft, but I also know that Joanna [Calo], Jake [Schreier], and Steven, the producer, and Kevin [Feige], and Lou [D’Esposito], we’ve been meeting regularly to try and create a new draft. I love working with these people, these frequent collaborators, and so I think the goal for us is to just keep getting in rooms and keep spit balling.”
“I’m such a huge fan of X-Men. My dad was in town for my daughter’s birthday recently. My mom and dad both were, and I told him the news about X-Men, and he was like, ‘That’s the good one, you know.’ I have such fond memories of me and my dad, Saturday morning, every morning, waking up, I think it was 9:00 or 10:00 a.m. central time, and we’d watch every single episode, read the comics, and I was a huge Gambit fan growing up, so the love is very strong.”
Fans of the X-Men comics will be pleased by what Schreier and his writer are saying. The FoX-Men movies were often criticised for taking out the family dynamics of comic books in favour of spectacle. Yet, some stories, like Phoenix (attempted twice by Fox) simply do not work without those dynamics being present.
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