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with the ages of magneto and xavier and the holocaust as a pivotal thing from magneto's past, they could still use them as flashbacks or tell stories from other times a la x-men 97.
I don't know main villain, but I want to see actual giant sentinels.
Swapping out one genocide for another is never going to go over well. It invites comparison between the events and making Erik part of another genocide would likely mean the erasure of his Jewishness in favor of something else (like making him Muslim Bosniak in your example).It might be time to consider reconnecting Magneto's origin so that he's a survivor of another, slightly more contemporary genocidal war, e.g., the Yugoslav wars, etc., etc.
Oh yes you did in the first page.Bastion.
In the age of MAGA, why not?I actually think because of the cartoon, we won’t see Bastion. Think about it, by the time the film comes out people will feel like Bastion has already been done.
So we can take off Cassandra and bastion. Dark phoenix too and too soon for apocalypse. Sinister I would pretty say is definite but only in the background.
Friends of humanity might be more controversial than Disney is prepared for at the moment but I think that’s why they’re a good fit
I don't think appearance in X-Men '97 hinders anyone's chances especially if its well received.I actually think because of the cartoon, we won’t see Bastion. Think about it, by the time the film comes out people will feel like Bastion has already been done.
So we can take off Cassandra and bastion. Dark phoenix too and too soon for apocalypse. Sinister I would pretty say is definite but only in the background.
Friends of humanity might be more controversial than Disney is prepared for at the moment but I think that’s why they’re a good fit
Also, the Sentinels are cool as f**k and give a lot of opportunity for really cool spectacle and action sequences, plus give some fodder for the X-Men, namely Wolverine, to completely go all out and annihilate.
They could repurpose the Hammer droids from Ironman 2 as sentinels with upgrades (thus linking back into the earlier MCU) and the fallout of the destructive battle between the X-Men and the sentinels could be what causes the FOH group to spring up.
Movies quickly become dated when they try to be "politically relevant". If you deliberately try and make FOH in any way a "reflection" of MAGA (which is what you are alluding to), then you are instantly dating the movie to the Trump era. It's like how you can tell which movies set in New York were made before 9/11: The twin towers are still there. obviously film makers didn't know that event was going to happen but it has dated movies as a result.taking into account the world we live in.
Politically relevant
enter Graydon Creed. have the first film end with Trask building the sentinel project.
end credit scene or something where someone is on the run and you never see what's chasing them until they fall or are trapped and a giant shadow overcomes them with the words "halt, mutant". end scene lol
Sinister is too big for the first film unless he returns for the sequel, he could end as 1 and done. I also don't know how you could make Sinister as a villain for the first film, when there would be a lot of groundwork for the X-Men first and Sinister seems like a slowburn villain. I think Bastion/Sentinels/or any human villains are easier to adapt for the first film, with the anti-mutant trope.