What Would Singer's X-Men 3 Have Been Like?

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While personally I only marginally liked the X-Men movies (they felt too rushed to me), it's an interesting question to ask: What would Singer's third movie have been like?

Well, Author Thomas McClean's book Mutant Cinema: The X-Men Trilogy From Comics to Screen reveals some interesting tidbits:

Dougherty had already revealed some time ago that they had wanted to cast Sigourney Weaver as Emma Frost, a comic book psychic who would be reimagined as an empath able to control people's emotions. Some reports have suggested that Frost would have been an old flame of Xavier and would have emotionally manipulated a resurrected, unstable Jean Grey into the evil Dark Phoenix.

McLean's book adds new information:

The author says in the chapter notes at the end of the book that this material came from a telephone interview with Dougherty in September 2006.

It's interesting stuff but X3 (and its interpretation of the Phoenix story) is not going to be unmade or remade, and there's no way of knowing how a Singer X3 would have finally turned out when released - although it would have been more consistent in tone with the first two X-Men films.

However, there is always a 'grass is greener' attitude among some fans. The third movie had enormous expectations on it - fans finally wanted Beast, Angel, Sentinels and the Danger Room (which had all been scripted, and then cut, from the previous two films) and there's no way all that could be added and handled in a way that would satisfy everyone

The book also dismisses fanboy rumours of bitter rivalry between the X-Men and Superman production teams:

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You can pick up the book at Amazon.