X-Men Producer Pitched All-Female Movie Years Ago, But It Never Happened

LongtimeX - Menproducer Lauren Shuler Donner pitched an all - distaff team - up picture years ago that never got made . twentieth Century Fox has held control of the movie rights to all X - Men type for the last several decennary , and have made more than a handful of films in that meter . The franchise sweep two decades of aconfusing timelinethat saw a soft reboot come in 2011 with the highly praisedX - Men : First Class .

to begin with , theX - Menfranchise was built on the backs of Wolverine ( Hugh Jackman ) , Professor X ( Patrick Stewart ) , and Magneto ( Ian McKellen ) . They were at the center of the first trilogy , along with major mutants like Cyclops ( James Marsden ) , Jean Grey ( Famke Janssen ) , Storm ( Halle Berry ) , and Rogue ( Anna Paquin ) . Although the first two installments of this franchise were well received , the trilogy fizzle to a close withX - piece : The Last Standand go to Wolverine spinoffs and the eventual reboot .

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At some point in the process , it appears an X - Women motion picture was being talked about , head by a pitch from producer Lauren Shuler Donner . She revealed this snatch of selective information during an audience withDeciderat the Television Critics Association gathering . Her theme was n’t for anX - Menmovie devoid of all manful characters , but just one that let some of the female characters take the lead . Here ’s what she said :

I honestly require to see an ten - Women picture show . I did n’t get it through . But I think that would be cool . I believe — not to have no cat in it , you have to have guys in it — but to make rather of Charles and Magneto at the helm it ’ll be whomever . Kitty Pryde and Illyana [ Rasputin ] . Something like that .

Although Donner does n’t specify when such a motion-picture show was being discussed , it well could ’ve been a law of continuation of the original trilogy . Since Wolverine got a spinoff of his own , an all - female 10 - Men team may have been the barb in the arm the franchise involve . It could ’ve been precede by Storm , Rogue , and Kitty Pryde ( Ellen Page ) , and Donner ’s mention of Illyana Rasputin aka Magik could have been among the new summation . alas , the motion-picture show never made it past the pitch phase , and now Magik is going to get her bouncy - military action debut with Anya Taylor - Joy playing her inNew Mutantsinstead .

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Even though Donner ’s pitch never happen with Fox , the studio ’s pending acquirement by Disney will soon revert the ten - Men movie rights back to Marvel Studios . Nothing has been substantiate yet , but it ’s expected that Kevin Feigewill reboot the charactersand likely integrate them into the Marvel Cinematic Universe . He ’ll surely appear to shake up how they ’re brought to lifespan on the big cover , and giving the female persona a larger nidus may be the answer .

Marvel Studios is just calendar week aside from releasing their first female person - run picture show withCaptain Marvel , and then haveBlack Widowcoming in the near future . Solo films for some of the female X - Men part could come down the route or mayhap Feige will use Donner ’s musical theme in the MCU . Feige used to be an intern for Donner after all and she has saidshe’d be well-chosen to forge with him againafter the Disney - Fox deal close . So , even though an 10 - Women picture show has n’t come about yet , it does n’t have in mind it wo n’t happen in the time to come .