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X-Men Continues With Younger Cast. Trade Roughage 11/19/08

By Christopher Campbell posted 11 months ago

Unfortunately, Fox is not making an X-Babies movie. Yet. Instead, the studio is continuing the franchise with X-Men: First Class, a kind of New Mutants or Generation X-like spinoff that will probably capitalize on the risen stardom of Ellen Page, who played Shadowcat in X-Men: The Last Stand, rather than a reboot/origin story a la the First Class comic book. And with Josh Schwartz writing the screenplay, it should be like The O.C. and Gossip Girl, only with mutant superheroes.
In other Marvel adaptation news, First Avenger: Captain America will be scripted by Chronicles of Narnia duo Christopher Markus and Stephen McFreely.
In other screenwriter news, Spielberg’s Oldboy remake with Will Smith will be adapted by I Am Legend writer Mark Protosevich.
In other Asian cinema remake news, Gore Verbinski will produce a redo of the Korean monster movie The Host.
And in other remake news, Are We Done Yet? director Steve Carr is helming a redo of the Depression-era road comedy Love on a Bet, which could start up a new trend of Economic Crisis-era road comedies.
In other semi-redo news, Disney is re-rendering its Beauty and the Beast for a digital 3-D release in 2010.
No wonder Hollywood likes familiarity when the most original movie announced today is about “aliens invading Earth by traveling backwards through time and wiping out humanity — yesterday by yesterday — while one man stays a yesterday ahead of them, trying to convince the world that the end is coming again.” The Days Before might just have the most confusing sci-fi synopsis of all time.

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