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Only for other geeks
The geekdom all over the net is reporting that Joss Whedon is going to direct, and possibly write, X-Men 3, which will be the Dark Phoenix saga. I met Joss shortly after the first X-Men was released, and he was still bitter about the way that script came out (other people got credit for that script, but he wrote some of it). We got into a minor X-Men argument (I defended the way Wolverine was written, and I still think I was right) and then decided that raiding a mini-bar was a better idea. Joss makes a mean Snapple and vodka.
I think it's more interesting to speculate who ends up writing than directing. Joss is writing Astonishing X-Men right now, so he has more of a connection to the series nowadays than he did when he was doing the Buffy/Angel stuff. I know someone who tried to write a Dark Phoenix screenplay, and he talked to Chris Claremont to bounce ideas a few years ago. Claremont didnt' sound interested in pursuing the movie project, though he did write the original Dark Phoenix saga. I think that Claremont's return to the X-Men two or three years ago was not an overwhelming success for Marvel, so they're probably not interested in his writing the script. Apparently Joss says that he's not directing anything that he hasn't written (he's in the middle of directing the Firefly movie right now), but I wouldn't be surprised if this is another project with multiple writers.
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