Liam Gaughan is a writer at Collider with a passion for classic films and the work of Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese.
The Big Picture Prior to the release of the first X-Men film in 2000, the future of the superhero genre was not looking particularly bright. While Blade succeeded in revitalizing the Marvel brand only two years earlier, it did so by courting an older audience that was used to seeing Wesley Snipes in 1990s action movies. Comparatively, X-Men was intended to be a four quadrant hit that would sustain one of the most valuable assets in 20th Century Fox’s library.
X-Men PG-13ActionAdventure Sci-Fi In a world where mutants exist and are discriminated against, two groups form for an inevitable clash: the supremacist Brotherhood, and the pacifist X-Men. Although it's understandable why 20th Century Fox looked to a recent hit for inspiration, the black leather suits in the first X-Men trilogy simply looked out of line with the original comic book interpretations. There’s a joy in seeing a group of goofy characters become a “found family” over the course of their adventures, but Singer’s first two films focused more on mutants like Logan , Rogue , and Charles Xavier , with characters like Cyclops and Storm pushed to the sideline.
The desire to more accurately reflect the original source material has extended to the X-Men spin-off films. 2016’s Deadpool earned praise from fans by finally giving Ryan Reynolds’ Wade Wilson the same black and red suit that he had in the comics, which was completely disregarded in the X-Men Origins: Wolverine spin-off.
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