The MCU's X-Men Already Has A Unique Advantage Over Fox's Movies
The MCU will eventually adapt the iconic X-Men comics for the first time in live-action since Fox’s now-defunct X-Men franchise with a major advantage over its predecessor. Following the success of Blade but preceding Sam Raimi’s genre-redefining Spider-Man film, 2000’s X-Men helped bring Marvel’s iconic comic book characters to cinemas at a time when superhero fiction was, for the most part, struggling to be taken seriously by people outside of their fairly niche fandoms. The Fox X-Men series, despite lasting for 20 years, never truly embraced its comic source material, a pitfall its MCU successor is sure to avoid if its four Phases of properties are any indication.
Superhero fiction was often dismissed or at best viewed with skepticism by those in the films industry for a time, with Richard Donner’s Superman films owing their title character’s popularity to his broader cultural significance than the comics themselves and four Batman anthology films being successful in large part due to their robust marketing campaigns. It was the success of 1998’s Blade and 2000’s X-Men that proved that even the most obscure superhero properties (relatively speaking) could become successful film franchises. Ultimately, however, Raimi’s Spider-Man films paved the way for the MCU by embodying their superhero comic source material and being met with massive critical and commercial success in the process.
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Bryan Singer, whose first X-Men movie set the stage for the rest of Fox’s franchise, had little respect for Marvel’s X-Men comics, banning the cast members from reading them so that they would portray “three-dimensional characters” instead. However, Wolverine actor Hugh
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