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Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.: Josh Schwartz To Pen Sassy X-Men Movie!!!
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Fox Needs a Director For X-Men: First Class
/Film —
... that he was writing a young X-Men spin-off. 20th Century Fox has remained mum, but now Variety has confirmed the project and is reporting that Schwartz declined an offer to direct the film. ...
Josh Schwartz To Pen Sassy X-Men Movie!!!
Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. —
... ). I'd like to think Schwartz, who's enjoying a good deal of (very well-deserved) success with GOSSIP GIRL and CHUCK, will be given some degree of autonomy in the writing, but even if he decides to direct ( and Variety claims he has that option ), there's no way he'll get anything approaching final cut on his first feature outing. In other words, it'll be up to producers Lauren Shuler-Donner and Simon Kinberg to watch his back, and while I've plenty of respect for those two, The Rothman is a very formidable foe. As with every other Marvel title hitting theaters over the next ...
Gossip Girl Writer Set to Write X-Men: First Class
Movies - Spoilers —
... a reliable series of movies that perform at the B.O. and not repeat a dismal summer sesh like the studio experienced this year. Although Schwartz has enjoyed smallscreen success, he has yet to crack the world of film with a significant project. He wrote and is attached to direct the coming-of-age comedy "Looking for Alaska" for Paramount. Tackling a new "X-Men" installment will likely give Schwartz instant credibility within the studio world. Source: Variety ...
XOXO X-Men: Gossip Girl’s Schwarz to Create Next X-Men Movie
At The Movies - Film News and Reviews —
... Variety reports that Fox has chosen Josh Schwartz to write the next X-Men movie, X-Men: First Class. The story will focus on teen characters introduced in other movies while they’re at the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning. ...
X-Men: The OC Edition
Cinema Blend News —
X-Men: The OC Edition Fox has long been hot to get young with its X-Men franchise, in fact thats just what theyre doing with Magneto , whenever his solo movie finally gets around to being done. Now theyre doing the rest with the rest of Professor Xs students and giving us a look at their teenage days with a movie called X-Men: First Class . Variety says theyve hired Josh Schwartz, last seen creating teen friendly shows like The OC and the more recently geek friendly Chuck , to write it. Looks like Fox has both of their demos covered. They want to inject a ...
X-Men franchise continues
Filmstalker —
... teaching them and the other side of the mutants, the darker side. They are going to have to bring in some of the old characters to keep the X-Men link going, otherwise they'll have to set it in a completely different location or recast the leads. Sure it'll be a big ensemble saving, but they still have to have those figureheads return, and if there are going to be more young X-Men films, they'll have to keep coming back. 20th Century Fox is keeping quiet about the project, although Variety have the news that ...
'X-Men: First Class' Goes All 'Gossip Girl'
RopeofSilicon.com —
In a not-so-surprising bit of news 20th Century Fox has continued their trend of staying away from risky and sticking to conventional by hiring “The O.C.” and “Gossip Girl” creator Josh Schwartz ...
X-men Cash Cow Keeps Giving
FlicksNews.net —
OC and Gossip Girl creator Josh Schwartz has been hired to write X-Men: First Class. X-Men: First Class will either focus on younger members of the X-Men team - Iceman, Rogue, Angel, Colossus, Jubilee and Shadowcat, or the early years of characters such as Cyclops and Beast. Schwartz reportedly declined an offer from 20th Century Fox to direct the film. Franchise producer Lauren Shuler Donner will produce the new movie alongside X-Men: The Last Stand writer Simon Kinberg. The X-Men film series has earned $1.2 billion at the worldwide box ...
Creator of The O.C. to Write and Possibly Direct X-Men: First Class
Film Junk —
... that we heard rumours about last year is actually going to happen, but it’s not exactly what you might expect. Variety reports that 20th Century Fox is developing an X-Men spin-off based on the X-Men: First Class comic book series. Josh Schwartz, creator of The O.C. and Gossip Girl, has been hired to write the script with an option to direct as well. ...
X-Men Continues With Younger Cast. Trade Roughage 11/19/08
SpoutBlog —
... Unfortunately, Fox is not making an X-Babies movie. Yet. Instead, the studio is continuing the franchise with X-Men: First Class, a kind of New Mutants or Generation X-like spinoff that will probably capitalize on the risen stardom of Ellen Page, who played Shadowcat in X-Men: The Last Stand, rather than a reboot/origin story a la the First Class comic book. And with Josh Schwartz writing the screenplay, it should be like The O.C. and Gossip Girl, only with mutant superheroes. ...
‘Gossip Girl,’ ‘The OC’ Creator Tagged For ‘X-Men: First Class’ Film, Featuring Teen Mutants
MTV Movies Blog —
... : Really, it was just a matter of time before studios chose someone like Josh Schwartz, the creator of several wildly popular, teen-skewed TV series like “Gossip Girl,” “The OC” and “Chuck,” to focus some attention on Marvel’s favorite team of mutants. According to Variety, 20th Century Fox has tapped the teen-savvy creator to write “X-Men: First Class,” an upcoming film that focuses on younger versions of Marvel’s X-Men and, the studio hopes, bring audiences back to a franchise that earned more ...
Newsbites: The comics and cartoons edition!
FilmChat —
... Marvel Studios. -- Variety, Hollywood Reporter 4. The X-Men are going back to school! Gossip Girl creator Josh Schwartz is going to write X-Men: First Class, a movie that focuses on the students at the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning more than the teachers. It is unclear whether this would be another sequel, or a prequel like the upcoming movies about Wolverine and Magneto, or a reboot altogether. -- Variety 5. Magdalena ...
We Could Have Told You That
Movie Dearest —
Hugh Jackman, longtime Movie Dearest Cinematic Crush and star of the upcoming Australia and X-Men Origins: Wolverine, has been named People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive for 2008. And for those of you who can't get enough of Hugh (who couldn't?), he may be returning to Broadway (following his Tony Award winning performance as Peter Allen in The Boy from Oz) in a stage musical version of the classic A Star is Born. As for the X-Men, looks like Twentieth Century Fox is finally moving ...
OMFG: 'X-Men: First Class' Movie Heading to Theaters?
I Watch Stuff - The Best Movie News Ever —
... This will be so good. Jubilee will try to slap Shadowcat, and Shadowcat will be all "nuh-uh," and make Jubilee's hand phase right through her, and then a popular song will play--but not too popular, y'know? Or at least that's what I imagine. I haven't actually seen more than a clip of The OC or Gossip Girl, but my impression is that it's mostly affluent teens alternately deciding who to punch or kiss. Is that close?
Fox, Josh Schwartz mutate 'X-Men' [Variety]
Josh Schwartz Enlists as Scribe for X-Men: First Class
Film School Rejects —
The folks at Variety are reporting that 20th Century Fox has signed Gossip Girl and Chuck creator Josh Schwartz to pen the much ballyhooed X-Men: First Class. This will be the first X-Men movie since Brett Ratner’s X-Men: The Last Stand grossed over $450 million worldwide in 2006. The news was leaked by Schwartz himself back in May, but Fox has since been very quiet. The Variety report confirms that Schwartz, who is also the creator of the hit series The O.C., has signed on to write, but that he has declined ...
Fox says a lot more 'X-Men' on the way
The Screening Log —
Gavin Hood's upcoming "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" is just one of many future "X-Men" films 20th Century Fox is currently developing.
According to Variety, the studio is also planning "X-Men: First Class," a potential new series of flicks with a focus on a bunch of younger mutants.
Any other details are kept under wraps for now, but the trade says the film and its possible sequels may follow some of the younger characters introduced in the previous films.
Josh Schwartz, creator of television's "The O.C.," "Gossip Girl" and "Chuck," is on board to write the script for "First Class." ...
Youth Will Be Served: Fox to Make 'X-Men: First Class'
Get The Big Picture —
Josh Schwartz, who has quietly become one of
the biggest hitters in television, is making a huge first foray into film,
singing a deal with Fox to write the script for the teenage superhero flick,
X-Men: First Class. Schwartz is the creator of The O.C., Chuck,
and Gossip Girl, so if there's one thing he understands, it's
youth-oriented melodrama.
The theory is that the completely untapped resources of
the Xavier Institute students and faculty we saw in the first trilogy will be
thrust into the spotlight in First Class, which ...
More X-Men to get younger, film fans to get dumber, Hollywood to rub its collective hands in greed and avarice.
Burbanked —
show of hands: who hates ratner? In its never-ending effort to run its valuable properties not just right into the ground but also beat them and shred them and burn, stomp and otherwise destroy them beyond all possible recognition until suddenly they’re new and then begin the whole thing all over again, Hollywood seeks to further “leverage” its X-Men properties into yet another movie tangent. Variety ...
‘X-Men: First Class’ Movie Moving Forward
Screen Rant —
It looks like 20th Century Fox will be continuing the X-Men franchise not just with solo spin-offs. The studio signed Josh Schwartz this week to write X-Men: First Class to bring the franchise to a younger generation.
Josh Schwartz is the creator, writer and producer of the television shows The OC, Gossip Girl and Chuck and this will be his first shot at developing a project for the big screen. You can probably guess who the target audience will be.
The film will undoubtedly follow (at least in some way, shape or form) the general idea and story from the ...
