X-Men Franchise Aiming to Stick with the Past

It's that special time for a tentpole.

When its release is inching closer and you start to hear the actors and filmmakers already bring up that magical word: sequel. You'll probably hear them talk about how this forthcoming sets it up for another one, and there's a very-high probability rate they'll compare it to say Star Wars to The Empire Strikes Back, Batman Begins to The Dark Knight or whatever other great first-and-second movies examples. Please stop doing that, filmmakers.

Our latest example comes from Total Film (via Screen Rant), and the folks behind X-Men: First Class.

It's all smiles from everyone (Smiles I'm guessing hiding what a bitch it was making this movie, says Latino Review – which I believe, by the way) talking about how they're totally gonna do more retro-themed X-Men adventures for the 70s and 80s:

"'That's an idea that's been discussed,' admits producer Bryan Singer. 'How the characters go through time. But only to a point – they can't age too fast!'"

You know I bitch, but I love the idea of looking into history from the perspective of this franchise and I have a feeling First Class will be the best of the comic-book properties dropping this summer. Imagine an X-Men set during the Woodstock period or have one set during the late 70s/early 80s and do it like an old-school Spielberg adventure or Walter Hill action-fest.

I'm just not going to get invested to seeing more beyond this one. Sorry, but First Class is going to duke it out with Thor as the lowest grossing comic movie this summer. These films have burned the general public with the last two installments that they won't show up as much as they did for the earlier ones.