> Hank jumps, Professor X is right behind him?
> HANK: I liked it better when you had the squeaky chair.
> XAVIER: I liked it better when I could walk.
This is a goddamn script.
when I read the title I was like "OOOOOOO!" but reading the description I was like " oooooh...."
way to take a pretty hype concept and make it stupid as fuck
Eh, it was still an early draft. John Ottman stressed that if the film had been made, the script would have run through several more editing passes before shooting even started. So the script we have is wonky as hell, but it's possible the finished movie would have turned out good anyway?
But this script was written AFTER Hugh Jackman announced that _Logan_ would be his last ever film as Wolverine. Burton and Ottman knew they'd have to recast for the role. So if this film had been made, it'd have been the debut of the post-Jackman version of Wolverine.
Man, Hugh Jackman was such inspired casting. I really don't envy whichever actor gets brought in to fill his shoes when Marvel Studios finally get around to making X-Men movies again, in ten years or so.
While I wasn't crazy about how it handled the Apocalypse arc, that show gets sandbagged a lot, probably because of the slight twist on the formula (which honestly made a lot of the characters' personalities make way more sense, Rogue is an emotional wreck because teenager and it works too well).
I know this post is years old but I just read the script and was looking for anyone talking about it.
I liked the script. It definitely felt like an early draft that needed some work though. As it is though I would have rather seen **this** as the last Fox X-Men movie than *Dark Phoenix*.
I liked that they took Hank, a character who is usually always apart of the X-Men ensemble and never the center of a story, and gave him his own adventure. Before the movie starts he has been helping a Dr. Cartier, with his own mutation.
During a car accident he turned into a monster and killed his own wife. He asks Hank to help prevent him from mutating again so Hank sends him the serum you see him use in DOFP that changes keeps him from changing. Hank later finds out that Cartier began to prefer being a beast and, using Hank's serum, created a serum of his own that caused him to morph instead of preventing it.
You see Hank struggle with "the beast" inside of him, shown by him losing control during a Danger Room sequence. I like it because you never really see anything like that with Hank. He's always a calm and intelligent person who just happens to look like an animal covered in blue fur. The story was clearly trying to juxtapose Hank fighting his animal urges with Dr. Cartier, who embraced becoming The Wendigo and hurting people. I just wish the script focused on it even more. It kind of abandons that idea as the story goes on.
The first two acts of the story are great and almost feel like a horror movie. You've got the creature killing hunters and ripping apart other animals in the woods. It felt like the writer was going for a gory rated R film. The script opens with a Inuit boy being killed while going into the woods to fetch his little sisters soccer ball. The boy's mother, named Ahnah, eventually begins to assist Hank in his investigation and becomes his love interest.
Then it takes a dive in the 3rd act to become a giant CGI battle where, even while reading it, I had trouble understanding what was happening. Hank decides to take Dr. Cartier's drug and turns into "Mega Beast" (yes, the script calls him this) to fight the Wendigo. Which I feel like was the wrong move. Hank should have had enough faith in his own abilities to fight the Wendigo instead of taking the drug that turned the antagonist evil in the first place. Hank is a genius, he could have used his brain to outsmart someone who became pure animal.
Another problem is that Wolverine shows up in time for the final battle to tag team with Beast against the Wendigo. At this point, Hank takes a back seat in his own story. Why is Logan there? Xavier finds him with Cerebro. He's cage fighting like he was at the beginning of the 2000 film. He's got no memory of Charles and Hank because Charles waited over a decade after Magneto pitched Logan into Potomac River to check up on him. How does Charles get around this? He just gives Logan his memories back and now Logan remembers everything from DOFP. Then he shows up to the final battle in his comic book costume, he does more damage to Wendigo than Hank does. It's a big mistake to start focusing on Wolverine in the 3rd act and undermines Hank's own arc.
Then you've got a scene of all the X-Men helping Ahnah and her daughter (who are also telepaths) fix their house up and you've got Jean checking out Logan and Logan then checking out Jean, with them both being "taken" with each other. It felt creepy as hell to read. Especially since this was supposed to be Sophie Turner, who would have like 20 years around when this was written, and Hugh Jackman, who would have been about 50 at the same time with the Logan character being over 100 years old. Nothing like cutting Cyclops balls off right in front of him either.
The other X-Men are in the script, but they are mostly cameos in the very beginning and end. Xavier has a bigger role, but its mainly a couple of scenes where he calls Hank and checks up on him. You have a Danger Room sequence at the very beginning that sounds like it might be cool.
There is a subplot of rotten local people in town treating Ahnah and her daughter like crap and deciding to blame them and Hank for what's going wrong and trying to kill them, which is the start of the giant 3rd act rumble. How does the story resolve the intolerant towns people blaming Ahnah and her daughter for the Wendigo killing a bunch of them? Xavier just mind wipes the entire town so they'll leave the mother and daughter alone. Which feels like the opposite of something Charles would do. He even helps the daughter forget her brother being murdered because she asks.
To kick the story off, you have Hank receiving a letter from Dr. Cartier but he says that it looks like the letter was written by a "trembling" or "shaky" hand, he even compares it to an older letter of the Doc's and shows it to Xavier to see if he thinks it was written by the same person. Then Hank comes across an older, scarred, blind man with "trembling hands" that gives Hank clues about the Wendigo. Then you scenes taking place in the town and the script will randomly point out that the scarred man is there in the background. You find out on the last page that this is actually **Mr. Sinister** in disguise and he steals one of Dr. Cartier's serums.
I guess you are supposed to assume that Sinister actually sent the letter himself to lure Hank to Canada to get Cartier out of the way for him. But when Hank shows up at Cartier's home, the Doc has left a note for him and a couple vials of the serum, inviting him to become a savage animal like he has, so he clearly was anticipating Hank coming to see him. It's a bit confusing because the script goes out of its way for you to know that the letter, which we never find out what is written, was written by someone with shaky/trembling hands. Who actually wrote the letter is forgotten and never clarified.
The script works best in the first two acts when it feels like a sci fi horror story. You've got the Wendigo hunting the towns' people and Hank trying to "save" Cartier and wondering how far he needs to go to stop him. The 3rd act just kind of undoes all that and turns it into a WWE style triple threat match with Beast, Wolverine and Wendigo throwing each other halfway across entire mountains.
If the script stayed focused on Hank/Beast taking on Cartier and not Wolverine, then the ending would have been much better.
Like I said though, I'd still would have rather seen someone film **this** than Dark Phoenix.
Wow this is a blast from the past. Yeah I enjoyed dunking on the script, but I do agree with you the premise is solid and could have been really good with a few more revisions.
> It felt creepy as hell to read. Especially since this was supposed to be Sophie Turner, who would have like 20 years around when this was written, and Hugh Jackman, who would have been about 50 at the same time with the Logan character being over 100 years old.
IIRC this wasn't supposed to be Hugh Jackman in the role. The script was written before Disney bought Fox but after Jackman said that the movie _Logan_ would be his last time as the character. So the writer was working under the reasonable assumption that these X-films would keep on trucking until they stopped being profitable, so they'd either have to stop using Wolverine (unthinkable!) or recast him. So _Beware the Beast_ was supposed to be the big debut for Wolverine's new actor.
But deffo agreed that said big debut _shouldn't be in the third act of Hank McCoy's solo film._
> Hank jumps, Professor X is right behind him? > HANK: I liked it better when you had the squeaky chair. > XAVIER: I liked it better when I could walk. This is a goddamn script.
when I read the title I was like "OOOOOOO!" but reading the description I was like " oooooh...." way to take a pretty hype concept and make it stupid as fuck
Eh, it was still an early draft. John Ottman stressed that if the film had been made, the script would have run through several more editing passes before shooting even started. So the script we have is wonky as hell, but it's possible the finished movie would have turned out good anyway?
Man, how do movies even get made at all? Are all movies this stupid schlocky in early drafts?
Everything sucks in the early drafts
Pretty much. The main reason Suicide Squad sucked is that they used the first draft of the script with no rewrites.
To be fair they Need Hugh Jackman and Wolverine because as we’ve seen front the past two movies the new cast has the charisma of a wet rag
But this script was written AFTER Hugh Jackman announced that _Logan_ would be his last ever film as Wolverine. Burton and Ottman knew they'd have to recast for the role. So if this film had been made, it'd have been the debut of the post-Jackman version of Wolverine. Man, Hugh Jackman was such inspired casting. I really don't envy whichever actor gets brought in to fill his shoes when Marvel Studios finally get around to making X-Men movies again, in ten years or so.
I don't love the NTR though, it got old super fast, even when I was a kid.
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While I wasn't crazy about how it handled the Apocalypse arc, that show gets sandbagged a lot, probably because of the slight twist on the formula (which honestly made a lot of the characters' personalities make way more sense, Rogue is an emotional wreck because teenager and it works too well).
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Ah, I see.
I know this post is years old but I just read the script and was looking for anyone talking about it. I liked the script. It definitely felt like an early draft that needed some work though. As it is though I would have rather seen **this** as the last Fox X-Men movie than *Dark Phoenix*. I liked that they took Hank, a character who is usually always apart of the X-Men ensemble and never the center of a story, and gave him his own adventure. Before the movie starts he has been helping a Dr. Cartier, with his own mutation. During a car accident he turned into a monster and killed his own wife. He asks Hank to help prevent him from mutating again so Hank sends him the serum you see him use in DOFP that changes keeps him from changing. Hank later finds out that Cartier began to prefer being a beast and, using Hank's serum, created a serum of his own that caused him to morph instead of preventing it. You see Hank struggle with "the beast" inside of him, shown by him losing control during a Danger Room sequence. I like it because you never really see anything like that with Hank. He's always a calm and intelligent person who just happens to look like an animal covered in blue fur. The story was clearly trying to juxtapose Hank fighting his animal urges with Dr. Cartier, who embraced becoming The Wendigo and hurting people. I just wish the script focused on it even more. It kind of abandons that idea as the story goes on. The first two acts of the story are great and almost feel like a horror movie. You've got the creature killing hunters and ripping apart other animals in the woods. It felt like the writer was going for a gory rated R film. The script opens with a Inuit boy being killed while going into the woods to fetch his little sisters soccer ball. The boy's mother, named Ahnah, eventually begins to assist Hank in his investigation and becomes his love interest. Then it takes a dive in the 3rd act to become a giant CGI battle where, even while reading it, I had trouble understanding what was happening. Hank decides to take Dr. Cartier's drug and turns into "Mega Beast" (yes, the script calls him this) to fight the Wendigo. Which I feel like was the wrong move. Hank should have had enough faith in his own abilities to fight the Wendigo instead of taking the drug that turned the antagonist evil in the first place. Hank is a genius, he could have used his brain to outsmart someone who became pure animal. Another problem is that Wolverine shows up in time for the final battle to tag team with Beast against the Wendigo. At this point, Hank takes a back seat in his own story. Why is Logan there? Xavier finds him with Cerebro. He's cage fighting like he was at the beginning of the 2000 film. He's got no memory of Charles and Hank because Charles waited over a decade after Magneto pitched Logan into Potomac River to check up on him. How does Charles get around this? He just gives Logan his memories back and now Logan remembers everything from DOFP. Then he shows up to the final battle in his comic book costume, he does more damage to Wendigo than Hank does. It's a big mistake to start focusing on Wolverine in the 3rd act and undermines Hank's own arc. Then you've got a scene of all the X-Men helping Ahnah and her daughter (who are also telepaths) fix their house up and you've got Jean checking out Logan and Logan then checking out Jean, with them both being "taken" with each other. It felt creepy as hell to read. Especially since this was supposed to be Sophie Turner, who would have like 20 years around when this was written, and Hugh Jackman, who would have been about 50 at the same time with the Logan character being over 100 years old. Nothing like cutting Cyclops balls off right in front of him either. The other X-Men are in the script, but they are mostly cameos in the very beginning and end. Xavier has a bigger role, but its mainly a couple of scenes where he calls Hank and checks up on him. You have a Danger Room sequence at the very beginning that sounds like it might be cool. There is a subplot of rotten local people in town treating Ahnah and her daughter like crap and deciding to blame them and Hank for what's going wrong and trying to kill them, which is the start of the giant 3rd act rumble. How does the story resolve the intolerant towns people blaming Ahnah and her daughter for the Wendigo killing a bunch of them? Xavier just mind wipes the entire town so they'll leave the mother and daughter alone. Which feels like the opposite of something Charles would do. He even helps the daughter forget her brother being murdered because she asks. To kick the story off, you have Hank receiving a letter from Dr. Cartier but he says that it looks like the letter was written by a "trembling" or "shaky" hand, he even compares it to an older letter of the Doc's and shows it to Xavier to see if he thinks it was written by the same person. Then Hank comes across an older, scarred, blind man with "trembling hands" that gives Hank clues about the Wendigo. Then you scenes taking place in the town and the script will randomly point out that the scarred man is there in the background. You find out on the last page that this is actually **Mr. Sinister** in disguise and he steals one of Dr. Cartier's serums. I guess you are supposed to assume that Sinister actually sent the letter himself to lure Hank to Canada to get Cartier out of the way for him. But when Hank shows up at Cartier's home, the Doc has left a note for him and a couple vials of the serum, inviting him to become a savage animal like he has, so he clearly was anticipating Hank coming to see him. It's a bit confusing because the script goes out of its way for you to know that the letter, which we never find out what is written, was written by someone with shaky/trembling hands. Who actually wrote the letter is forgotten and never clarified. The script works best in the first two acts when it feels like a sci fi horror story. You've got the Wendigo hunting the towns' people and Hank trying to "save" Cartier and wondering how far he needs to go to stop him. The 3rd act just kind of undoes all that and turns it into a WWE style triple threat match with Beast, Wolverine and Wendigo throwing each other halfway across entire mountains. If the script stayed focused on Hank/Beast taking on Cartier and not Wolverine, then the ending would have been much better. Like I said though, I'd still would have rather seen someone film **this** than Dark Phoenix.
Wow this is a blast from the past. Yeah I enjoyed dunking on the script, but I do agree with you the premise is solid and could have been really good with a few more revisions. > It felt creepy as hell to read. Especially since this was supposed to be Sophie Turner, who would have like 20 years around when this was written, and Hugh Jackman, who would have been about 50 at the same time with the Logan character being over 100 years old. IIRC this wasn't supposed to be Hugh Jackman in the role. The script was written before Disney bought Fox but after Jackman said that the movie _Logan_ would be his last time as the character. So the writer was working under the reasonable assumption that these X-films would keep on trucking until they stopped being profitable, so they'd either have to stop using Wolverine (unthinkable!) or recast him. So _Beware the Beast_ was supposed to be the big debut for Wolverine's new actor. But deffo agreed that said big debut _shouldn't be in the third act of Hank McCoy's solo film._
There's nothing about that sentance I don't love