Joss Not Directing New X men Movie, But...

[nerd4hire]

Remember when there was all that "Will he? Won't he?" questioning concerning whether or not Joss would direct the upcoming X men movie?

Well he won't of course. It's Bret Rattner, I think. He will be contributing to it though. He just won't be getting paid for it, or even credited for that matter. 😉

Interview with Director.

Q: It sounds like you're taking a lot of story from Joss Whedon's "Astonishing X-Men" run. Are there any other comic sources or parts from other books that you're using in this movie and if so, which ones? And also, a question for the actors - do you ever actually pick up the comic books to use as reference for your character?

BR: That's a tricky question for me"¦if you ask me what comic book issue [story points] refer to, I can't tell you that. But I can tell you that every single scene in this movie [has some roots in the comic]. [Screenwriters] Zak Penn and Simon Kinberg are fanatical "X-Men" fans, and if I ask them, "Well, where the hell did you get this idea from?" They'll pull out "X-Men" [HASHTAG]#127[/HASHTAG] and have a photocopy of it for me. In my office here, before I actually shot, there's a reference of every single scene in this movie from a comic. And I thought some of it was made up! And the execution of the script is so brilliant.

You know how they have a category in the Academy Awards for Screenplay and then"¦ what is it? Adapted Script from another piece of source material? That is the hardest thing to do - an adaptation. Because the complexity of taking something from a comic that exists"¦and to put it into script form where it works in the movie universe is not an easy thing to do. That was an incredible education for me: to look at the scene the way it existed - for instance, the cure in the comic - and then how it manifests itself in script form"¦it really informed my approach to it.

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Interview with associate producer.

Q: I was curious, the last movie was semi based on the comic series "God Loves, Man Kills", does this one have any correlating story?

Gorder: Well, there's a lot of reference from Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men. There's some characters, like Dr. Rao, is a character in this movie. That's from the Astonishing X-Men, also Phoenix Rising, and the Phoenix comics. There will be some references to that. Most of all, no, it's kind of an original story. We've just taken bits and pieces that we like from Joss' story line, and the Phoenix story line.

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[Primal Slayer]

ya I read this on SHH, its great to see Joss's work in the movie even though he wont have any part of the movie.