Info from Cinescape online on the sequel, hot off the press:
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In an interview with Comics Continuum, X-MEN producer Ralph Winter talked about moving into work on the sequel, as well as his hopes for the series in the future. And while he was up on beginning work on the sequel, he cautioned fans not to expect a huge blowout of a movie.
Â*"I am starting a concept artist and we are beginning to write the script," Winter told the site. "I am very happy to be back… We're trying to do if for a price because, frankly, we're trying to do more than one movie. We'd love to do a franchise. We'd love to see many stories get told. So we're trying to start at a level that establishes the characters and makes people want to go further. So, we're starting at a budget level that's very large, but not the biggest budget ever. It gives us some place to grow to."
Shooting begins later this year or early 2002.
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Personally, I loved the X-Men film. I got into the X-Men around when the X-Men comic was first released back in (1991/1992?) and have done a lot of back reading. I mean, obviously, it's not going to be as good as the comic. It's the first film in what they hope to be many and they had to do everything in their power to set it up and at the same time get a plot in there which people who were not too familiar with the comic might be interested in.
I think the characters were very well cast... and while people have been complaining about what a goodie goodie Cyclops is in it, that's exactly how I've always seen him.
My only gripe is that Psylocke and Beast were not in it... Beast would have been a bit hard to do... but Psylocke would have been easy. She's always been my favorite character.
Anyway, I'm rambling again.