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Has Fox FINALLY Learned the Crucial X-Men Lesson?

The X-Men movies have been notorious for ignoring their comic book source material.

By Tom BaconPublished 9 years ago • 1 min read

The X-Men movies have been notorious for ignoring their comic book source material - just a quick glance at them makes many X-Men fans fume:

  • Check out Deadpool-with-no-mouth in X-Men: Origins: Wolverine!
  • Anna Paquin's Rogue lacks all the Southern Belle sass of the comic book character, but that's not her fault - she's thrust into a role traditionally reserved for Kitty Pryde or Jubilee!
  • Speaking of Kitty Pryde, that character shifted from being the central character of the Days of Future Past storyline to being a plot device in X-Men: Days of Future Past!

But over on CBR, Andre Tricoteux has dropped a bombshell about his portrayal of Colossus in Deadpool. Here's what he said:

They really wanted Colossus to be true to the original comic. That was their vision of him in this movie, so that’s what I concentrated on.

This approach is very different to anything we've seen in the X-Men franchise before. But before we get too excited, we've got to remember that Bryan Singer's X-Men: Apocalypse isn't likely to show the same concern for the source-material. Jubilee, after all, is becoming the "mistress of electricity"!

Still, maybe Fox is beginning to learn their lesson - or maybe it's just that the directors of Deadpool have a different attitude..

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    Written by Tom Bacon