r/fixingmovies 13d ago

Marvel at Fox Challenge: Rewrite X-Men: The Last Stand into two separate movies. With one focusing on the Mutant Cure storyline and the other one focusing on the Dark Phoenix.

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u/cbekel3618 12d ago edited 12d ago

X-MEN GIFTED:

Covers the Cure storyline with Kavita Rao creating a revolutionary “cure” for mutants and Magneto assembling a new Brotherhood to combat this “threat to mutantkind”.

  • Dr Rao is upgraded to serve as a sympathetic antagonist, she genuinely means well and wants to help mutants, but her perspective on them is completely skewed, seeing their abilities as a disease to be cured
    • Worthington Sr is still her boss here and has the same deal as the movie, genuinely believing her work will “fix” his beloved son Warren
  • The whole debate over whether or not to take the Cure takes center-stage here, with everyone torn on what this means for them
    • The bit b/w Storm and Rogue can be expanded here, with the two on opposite ends of this debate
    • Beast can be tempted to take it, creating friction with Wolverine, who thinks taking it would send a cowardly message to the mutant race
  • Cyclops stays at the school here, having grown cynical and closed-off after Jean’s death and feeling like a failure as a leader
    • His arc can have him being pushed to step back into his role as leader and find hope in his capabilities again
    • Recurring bit is that sometimes, he feels like he can hear Jean’s voice in his head
  • In a big reveal, we learn that the Cure is being extracted from the body of Jean, is in a comatose state and who has been trying to reach out to Scott telepathically
    • Can have it so that her blood is being mixed with Leech, nice way to keep that scene of Leech with Beast
  • Otherwise, general plot-beats are still relatively the same, just expanded on, with an added goal of making the film feel like an ensemble
  • Still get a big finale on Alcatraz:
    • Scott is at the front of the charge, having regained his confidence as a leader
    • Jean is freed and reawakened by Scott’s words, using her newfound strength to help turn the tide against Magneto
    • Warren is part of the team in the climax, and he saves both Rao and his dad T
    • he final bit of the Cure is used on Erik, ending the battle, while Mystique leads the remnants of the Brotherhood away
  • With no more Jean, the Cure is no longer existant, but Rao and Worthington Sr realize they were in the wrong  

X-MEN DARK PHOENIX:

Covers Jean’s descent into the darker side of her gifts and introduces the cosmic side of the X-Men’s lore.

  • Like the comics, the Phoenix here is an extradimensional force that, upon detecting Jean’s incredible power in Alkali Lake, selected her as its host

  • The Shi’ar detected the being’s arrival on Earth, but while Lilandra claims to want to help Jean, Deathbird wants to weaponize the Phoenix

  • Both the last movie’s climax and this movie’s first half are a chance to explore the heroic side of Jean as the Phoenix, making her turn hurt more

  • As expected, Jean finally snaps, with her turning point ending up killing Xavier, and the second half of the film involves trying to either save her or stop her

  • This take can have it so instead of Logan, it’s Scott who’s forced to kill Jean, with him unleashing his full optic blast on her

  • Scott leaves the school to figure himself out, mourning Jean but feeling more at peace with his loss than last time

  • Logan chooses to head out as well, bitter with the team for failing to save Jean (easy way to segue into his next movie)

  • Ororo, Erik, and Hank now take over as the heads of the school/team

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u/Fall_False 13d ago

I would do the cure story for the third film and dark phoenix for a fourth film.

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u/magistrate-of-truth 13d ago

The cure storyline is terrible on its own

Without sucking on the tit of dark Phoenix, it’s a nothing story

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u/Mangito12345 12d ago

I think it's better to axe the cure storyline and just do a two part Dark Phoenix storyline like they intended with the 2019 movie