movies: x3: famke

[amezri]

Old news, but I thought I had posted about it in my lj previously, but can't find it anywhere. So... here are links and quotes from Famke Janssen, making some awesome comments about the crapfest that was X-Men: The Last Stand in 2008.

Fury of the Phoenix: Famke Janssen blasts X-Men: The Last Stand

Now, two years after X-Men: The Last Stand was released, Netherlands-born Famke Janssen (it's pronounced fam-kuh yan-sin), has said she was not happy with the Phoenix treatment either.

Famke, who was also in medical drama Nip/Tuck and was the deadly Xenia in Bond movie GoldenEye, told Indianapolis Entertainment's website: "I know how important the Phoenix Saga is to the fans, and I don't think it was addressed properly. It's such a great storyline."

Famke interview at Film Experience.net

FAMKE: That’s not the way it works. The way it works is that some people get paid a lot of money on those movies and I’m not one of them. And they need to give them as much screen time as possible. That’s really how it works.

NATHANIEL: That’s crazy because all the drama was yours. And yet, there was all this other... stuff.

FAMKE: Yes and I kept fighting it, too. I said ‘Look you set up the character like that in the beginning of the film. You have her kill Patrick Stewart’s character. You have her kill her own fiancé in the film. And then where do you take it? You’ve got to follow it through. You can’t just leave it dangling there.'

NATHANIEL: Yeah.

FAMKE: But they did.

NATHANIEL: It’s good to hear that because as I watching it I kept thinking This is the Movie. What is all this... other stuff?

FAMKE: People who I know who really like the X-Men comic books really love that story arc. It felt to me like a missed opportunity. People ask ‘Are they going to come back and do it and I say, no that’s now done. It was done in that way.

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[eido.livejournal.com]

People ask ‘Are they going to come back and do it and I say, no that’s now done. It was done in that way.

Until like 10 years later and they reboot it (or Days of Future Past it out of existence) like they've done to the Batman franchise.

[amezri.livejournal.com]

And I would totally be okay with that if they do it right the next time around :D

[seishin.livejournal.com]

Until like 10 years later and they reboot it (or Days of Future Past it out of existence) like they've done to the Batman franchise.


I like how you think. :)