[Just
to be clear: I have not watched X-Men: Apocalypse yet and this post
will contain zero spoilers as a result.]
On
the one hand I don't think I can really complain about Jennifer
Lawrence wanting to do more X-Men movies. She's a fantastic actress
and hopefully her future appearances will lean more towards the First
Class than the Days of
Future Past. So, definitely
something to cautiously look forward to.
On
the other hand, though, Fox's X-Men movies have a tendency towards
mediocrity, a horrible “oh, just get it made” attitude that
squandered the promise of the First Class
reboot in the very next film. Until now everyone has been assuming
that Fox's plan was to keep turning out X-Men films until Hugh
Jackman ages out of the part, quits or dies and we were all sort of
okay with that. There have been a few genuinely great movies in the
franchise. It doesn't break anywhere near even on the good/bad divide
but there have been good ones.
I'm not going to lie, I want to see Marvel and Fox come
to a Spider-Man style shared custody deal and the one thing standing
in the way of that until now was Hugh Jackman, a middle-aged man. Now
Fox has Jennifer Lawrence's star power to rely on into the future and
she's twenty years younger than him.
Then again, this is Hollywood we're talking about so she
probably "counts" as being the same age as Jackman so the overall plan
might remain unchanged.
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