The intention was for Cameron to produce the movie and Kathryn Bigelow, Cameron’s wife at the time as well as the future Oscar-winning director of The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty, to direct. Several years after Nelvana dropped the ball James Cameron and his production company snapped it up and began making plans for the first X-Men feature film following a successful pitch by Lee and legendary X-writer Chris Claremont in 1990. First up was the Canadian animation powerhouse Nelvana (best known to Star Wars fans for producing the animated short introducing Boba Fett that was the undisputed highlight of the Star Wars Holiday Special), but their attempts to make a live action X-film fell apart so fast that its development history is barely remembered. A movie based on Stan Lee and Jack Kirby‘s uncanny super-team of mutant outcasts had been in various stages of development since the mid-1980s.
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Like every billion dollar movie franchise based on a popular comic book 20th Century Fox’s immensely profitable X-Men series traveled its own long, hard road to the silver screen. If you haven’t checked out my bloated, unwieldy nerdgasm of an introduction to the series as well as a complete week-by-week breakdown of clues to each entry on this list you may do so here.
I apologize for the lengthy delay between installments apparently I have worse trouble than Kevin Smith and Dan Harmon when it comes to meeting deadlines. BAADASSSSS! is here with the fifth exciting issue of my ongoing series of articles The Ten Best Unproduced Comic Book Movie Scripts.