The creator of Gossip Girl, Josh Schwartz claims to be developing an X-Men Prequel, but not to be part of the Origins films like the upcoming Wolverine or anticipated Origins: Magneto. This will be another team flick.
His idea for this whole affair is to follow a teen who attends the Xavier Institute. He says he won’t be adding any new characters, so the question becomes: Which lucky X-Men character will Schwartz focus on?
I am one of the purists that Josh Schwartz is afraid of upsetting, however he claims to love the mythology of the XMen world so I can only hope he is a true fan.
So his idea is to bring us a feature group picture featuring a teen attending the school before the events that brought Wolverine along. Since the movie franchise seems to focus on the All New All Different XMen instead of the core XMen we were introduced to back in 1963 and not the original lineup, I thought he might be touching on that. But the Original Lineup consisted of Cyclops, Angel, Beast, Iceman and Marvel Girl. All of those characters have been brought to light in the franchise, so that lineup is clearly off the speculation list.
I could see him bringing us a New Mutants movie. Sort of a Junior XMen story. Perhaps they could call the movie Xavier Institute. I just hope he doesn’t lean too much on his Gossip Girl tricks and make this about popularity in high school social hierarchy. We already had SkyHigh (which I liked) play off the Hero and Sidekick social structure storyline.
I’d love to see a movie with the lineup including Warlock, Cypher, Richtor, Skids, Boomboom, and Magik (Colossus’ little sister) with Canonball being the new kid.
If this happens at all, who would you like to see be the hub of this?
