By Ryan Parsons | Image property of 20th Century Fox
Patrick Stewart as Professor X
It is beginning to look like X-Men 3 might witness the same recovery that V for Vendetta did. After hitting more than its fair share of speedbumps and directors, the film has rebounded with solid buzz, a nice teaser and a confident cast & crew.
Stewart Talks X-Men 3
A while back we had posted a couple of articles that featured the possibility of X-Men 3 being the best yet for the film franchise. Now, we don't want to get ahead of ourselves on this one, especially considering how solid we thought X2 was, but now we have Mr. Patrick Stewart (Professor X) claiming that the script for X-Men 3 is the best he has seen yet. Hurray!
Sci Fi Pulse recently caught wind that the latest issue of Dreamwatch sat down with Patrick Stewart to discuss his role in the drama series 11th Hour plus his return to the X-Men film franchise. Besides mentioning positive comments about X-Men 3, the actor gave the film one of the ultimate compliments.
X–Men 3 went through a certain amount of pre – production drama before the cameras rolled – Bryan Singer withdrew from the project and then after some time Mathew Vaughan came onboard… Then Mathew also withdrew from the project, by which time it was almost too late. You can imagine, on a film like this, it requires a lot of preparation… Then Brett Ratner became the helmer and in every possible way hit the ground running with this project. I do know that everybody was working 48 hours ahead of what was being prepped. The pressure on them was enormous, so much so that the last 10 days that I was shooting – in fact a scene with myself and Sir Ian McKellen – we were shooting in the studio but from six o’clock in the evening until six o’clock in the morning.
The script, I believe, is the best script of the three. It’s very intense, it’s very emotional, it’s very personal about the individuals that we’ve already got to know in the first two movies. It has some astonishing set - piece sequences. It has a number of quite significant deaths. [From] what I’ve seen so far, I think, it’s likely to be extraordinary. Some absolutely outstanding work is happening in Vancouver – including from some of the new people who’ve come onboard ranging from Kelsey Grammer to Vinnie Jones, who are now part of the X–Men family, If anyone saw Brett’s Red Dragon, which I thought was an outstanding film, I don’t think they have any reason to be nervous.
A solid script is one of the best blocks to build upon and this latest vote of confidence is refreshing. However, let's wait until a teaser trailer and some review from early screenings 20th Century Fox is bound to put on before getting ahead of ourselves.
Once these occur then maybe, just maybe, we can finally leave that whole no-director business behind us.
Patrick Stewart as Professor X
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