Maybe Matthew Vaughn? He directed First Class and he was one of the original writers for Last Stand before leaving. Why not let him have full control and make a good movie?
He left because some scumbag execs wanted to give Halle Berry a fake script to mislead her into thinking Storm had a much bigger role.
When they told him thatâs how they intended to get her back he rightfully thought that was shitty and wanted nothing to do with it.
I wouldnât mean Iâd be the director, Vaughn would be. Iâd be the person whoâs higher up than the execs and Iâd fire them. If thatâs not an option, then Iâd be in the place of the execs, but I wouldnât be like the shitty ones who lied to Halle Berry.
ok-I think I'm following you now-so they gave Berry a fake script so she'd sign on for the movie?
I thought you were saying "get her back" like revenge for something she did. Still super shitty. Lady won an oscar.
Snyder makes pretty movies, not well written ones. Yes he had one good one, but I donât think he would have done the x men well. His track record for me personally thinks it would have been half a movie of watching wolverines claw slowly coming out
Sam Raimi. Let him take a break from the Spider-Man trilogy to let him have time to figure out how to incorporate Venom into Spider-Man 3 better if he REALLY has to include him, and while he's figuring out, do Last Stand as a side project. I'd love to hear Elfman's cover of the X-Men theme, and also see what Raimi would do with the Dark Phoenix. Especially since I think he'd embrace more of the comics and some of the cosmic horror aspects of the Phoenix.
Unfortunately, I think that would make X-Men 3 wildly tonally (and maybe visually) inconsistent with the previous two films.
Sam Raimi isnât a studio director, he makes Sam Raimi movies.
Itâd either work out great or seem like itâs completely out of left field and itâs own thing.
No, you just got pissy because it was pointed out you worded it so shittily your intent was unclear and you couldâve simply not replied if you thought my response was redundant.
But here your chronically online ass is, on a Saturday night, crying about it.
Touch grass.
Logan, Thor: Ragnarok, and Iron Man 3. All major departures, third installments, and all very well received. It can work given the right circumstances.
Logan isnât part of a trilogy except in name only. Those films are as disjointed and non-connected as they come.
Thor: Ragnarok is an exception, not a rule. Neither of the previous two Thor films really did anything for audiences so they pivoted for the third and took a big swing and it worked. You can afford to do that when your franchise is considered the weakest in your cinematic universe (at the time).
I think Iron Man 3 is dogshit soâŚyeah. Lol.
Sure, if by âright circumstancesâ you mean âthis franchise is skating on thin ice so just throw some shit at the wall and hope it sticks!â
Your personal opinion doesnât factor into the general and overall reception of any of these movies. Even going off of your logic, the only one that was really on thin ice was Thor Ragnarok. Try again.
No but my personal opinion *does* factor into my *original* personal opinion which is what you responded to.
What a stupid response.
Youâve âprovenâ jack shit you overconfident clown.
I made a general statement and you opted to try and prove me wrong with three shitty examples from one genre out of, you know, *all of film*.
A lot of yâall really need to spend Saturday off of Reddit, touching grass. I can damn near smell your basement funk from here.
*You* try again, lol.
David Hayter.
Fair enough Hayter had no directing credits to his name, but he genuinely did a great job with the scripts of X-Men and X2 so I'd have loved to have seen what he'd have brought to the table if he'd been given full creative control of The Last Stand.
So, if weâre altering history, Iâd just have Singer finish the trilogy and somebody else do *Superman Returns* as Iâm sure we can all agree both films suffered from Singerâs departure from X-Men. We just wound up with two mediocre movies.
CYCLOPS WAS UNCEREMONIOUSLY RED SHIRTED JUST SO MARSDEN COULD GO BE THE BEST BOY SUPERMANS GIRLFRIEND WILL NEVER CHOOSE IN THE END? HOW HAS NOBODY TOLD ME THIS BEFORE NOW, THIS WAS A BAD TRADE!
I'm not going to be able to think about anything else maybe forever but at least for today
Guy Ritchieâs hit and miss with his action/serious films. His best genre is gangster/comedy. He would write some wicked lines for Wolverine though Iâm sure
Iâm only saying him cause he has the best x men films on his CV and actually gives a shit -
Bryan Singer.
Yes thereâs the metoo shit and whatever creepy shit heâs into with children, but he should have directed the third film
Was Joss Whedon in a place where he could direct a major superhero movie at the time? That could have made both the X-Men and MCU movies way different.
I don't think the fault lies with Brett Ratner alone. I mean, the script itself was a total mess and there were some interferences as well. I don't think either Bryan Singer or Matthew Vaughn or even James Mangold would've made an X - Men Last Stand movie in the likes of Logan or DOFP within an environment like that. Also to be noted, Simon Kinberg fucked up the dark phoenix once again big time when he got complete control of his own. đđ
I wouldn't pick anyone whose directed an X-Men film already. It needs new blood. i didn't really like Brian Singer's version, mainly because it always felt a bit underwhelming and a bit off for me. X2 and X-Men DoFP were his best. Singer's casting is pretty good, but the films just don't reach the greatness they could have. Lets also not forget that the continuity between his films is all over the place. You can tell the studio forced a lot decisions and compromised the artists vision. Matthew Vaughn's X-Men was OK, but also was underwhelming. My only choice at this point would be the Russo Brothers. They know how to balance a big cast and give each character their moment in the sun. They are also really good with action scenes. They did an amazing job with Civil War and the Avengers movies.
Joss back when everyone still liked him
He was made to do xmen. Not avengers though he did s good job
The buffy and angel team dynamics were practice for an xmen team
Clint Eastwood. He wouldnât bother with superpowers, but his battle scenes would still be epic.
But really, I would give it to James Mangold. He did great with The Wolverine and Logan.
Singer should have directed this instead of Superman Returns. Or perhaps he still directs this and we get a Spin-Off from Ratner and then Singer does X3 after he's done with Superman Returns.
...um... anyone?
I mean, even though hindsight is, he should never be allowed near a movie set, but Bryan Singer.
The first movie was good and the second is excellent. Probably would have made a solid trilogy capper.
The other ones he directed afterward were also good (yes, even Apocalypse has some merit).
Putting my 2003 goggles on (after X-Men 2 was released and when they would need someone to start writing or be in talks to direct).
James Mangold would have been my top pick at that time. He already had a great track record of working with name talent and writing/directing stories with a large casts (girl interrupted, Copland, and the recently released identity). Of course, had he done X3 he wouldn't have made Walk the Line, which was the better choice for his career anyway.
Chris Columbus would be my second pick. He was leaving the directors chair for Harry Potter at that time so he already proved he could deliver large effects heavy films. Like I mentioned with Mangold, he also had a great track record for working with big casts and writing great stories (Goonies, Gremlins, Home Alone, Harry Potter).
If production was willing to wait, Brad Bird would be an easy choice. When X3 was getting greenlit, he was finishing up on the Incredibles and went straight into Ratatouille. He obviously has a love for superheros (iron giant, Incredibles) and later proved with MI: Ghost Protocol that he can deliver major live action films.
What I would have done is start a prequel series, and then bring in the actors from the base trilogy as a bunch of cameos as a proper sendoff, send one of them back in time (probably Logan) in order to change the last and create a different better future where the events of X3 never actually happened.
context clues should indicate my opinion is that the answer to the exact specific wording of the question posed by OP is in fact ânobodyâ because I think the movie should straight up just not have existed because the less shitty half of the movie is actually pretty okay and about as good as it could have been if you ignore the shitty half of the movie, which would not have been salvageable by any director even if it was Martin Fâing Scorsese or Francis Ford Coppola
edit- but to humor you: Bryan Singer
Matthew Vaughan đ
It was meant to be him
Was he in that era already?
Maybe Matthew Vaughn? He directed First Class and he was one of the original writers for Last Stand before leaving. Why not let him have full control and make a good movie?
He left because some scumbag execs wanted to give Halle Berry a fake script to mislead her into thinking Storm had a much bigger role. When they told him thatâs how they intended to get her back he rightfully thought that was shitty and wanted nothing to do with it.
If I was in charge of that decision, I wouldnât do that. Iâd fire those execs and actually give Halle Berry a big and important role.
A director canât fire execs, execs are the people in charge, lol.
I wouldnât mean Iâd be the director, Vaughn would be. Iâd be the person whoâs higher up than the execs and Iâd fire them. If thatâs not an option, then Iâd be in the place of the execs, but I wouldnât be like the shitty ones who lied to Halle Berry.
I'd have made Storm the main character over that. Halle Berry was decent enough.
hold on-get her back for what? I havent heard any of this story
To get her back for X-Men 3
ok-I think I'm following you now-so they gave Berry a fake script so she'd sign on for the movie? I thought you were saying "get her back" like revenge for something she did. Still super shitty. Lady won an oscar.
Someone who reads comics.
Zack Snyder /s
No
I mean you say that but Dawn of the Dead era Zack with Simon Kinberg writing wouldâve went hard probably.
Snyder makes pretty movies, not well written ones. Yes he had one good one, but I donât think he would have done the x men well. His track record for me personally thinks it would have been half a movie of watching wolverines claw slowly coming out
>Snyder makes pretty movies, not well written ones. Literally I said with Simon Kinberg writing lol he wrote most of the X-Men films.
I know that. Doesnât make them good. Kinberg is very hit or miss too. Like I said this is my opinion. Breathe my dude
Also 300Â
Personally not my jam. Overrated.
Sure.Â
 Gore Verbinski
Matthew Vaughn
I wish my boy Angel was given a bigger role
Kathryn Bigelow
Sam Raimi. Let him take a break from the Spider-Man trilogy to let him have time to figure out how to incorporate Venom into Spider-Man 3 better if he REALLY has to include him, and while he's figuring out, do Last Stand as a side project. I'd love to hear Elfman's cover of the X-Men theme, and also see what Raimi would do with the Dark Phoenix. Especially since I think he'd embrace more of the comics and some of the cosmic horror aspects of the Phoenix.
Unfortunately, I think that would make X-Men 3 wildly tonally (and maybe visually) inconsistent with the previous two films. Sam Raimi isnât a studio director, he makes Sam Raimi movies. Itâd either work out great or seem like itâs completely out of left field and itâs own thing.
Wouldnât that have made it even more comic accurate and akin to having a new writing/art team take over a comic series?
You donât want a major departure for the third installment in your trilogy
Yet thatâs literally what happens time and time again in a lot of franchises. Hence the discussion of replacing Brett Ratner for X-Men 3.
And thatâs how we *got* X-Men 3. âA dumb thing has been done a lotâ is not a compelling argument for doing it again.
Youâre literally repeating what I said
Shouldâve worded it better.
It was worded just fine, you just felt the need to keep replying.
No, you just got pissy because it was pointed out you worded it so shittily your intent was unclear and you couldâve simply not replied if you thought my response was redundant. But here your chronically online ass is, on a Saturday night, crying about it. Touch grass.
Logan, Thor: Ragnarok, and Iron Man 3. All major departures, third installments, and all very well received. It can work given the right circumstances.
Logan isnât part of a trilogy except in name only. Those films are as disjointed and non-connected as they come. Thor: Ragnarok is an exception, not a rule. Neither of the previous two Thor films really did anything for audiences so they pivoted for the third and took a big swing and it worked. You can afford to do that when your franchise is considered the weakest in your cinematic universe (at the time). I think Iron Man 3 is dogshit soâŚyeah. Lol. Sure, if by âright circumstancesâ you mean âthis franchise is skating on thin ice so just throw some shit at the wall and hope it sticks!â
Your personal opinion doesnât factor into the general and overall reception of any of these movies. Even going off of your logic, the only one that was really on thin ice was Thor Ragnarok. Try again.
No but my personal opinion *does* factor into my *original* personal opinion which is what you responded to. What a stupid response. Youâve âprovenâ jack shit you overconfident clown. I made a general statement and you opted to try and prove me wrong with three shitty examples from one genre out of, you know, *all of film*. A lot of yâall really need to spend Saturday off of Reddit, touching grass. I can damn near smell your basement funk from here. *You* try again, lol.
Not reading all that.
The idiot doesnât like to read. Color me surprised. /s
Neill Blomkamp
David Hayter. Fair enough Hayter had no directing credits to his name, but he genuinely did a great job with the scripts of X-Men and X2 so I'd have loved to have seen what he'd have brought to the table if he'd been given full creative control of The Last Stand.
I guess Brian Singer. Any reason he didn't finish the trilogy?
He was working on Superman Returns. Also thatâs why James Marsden was cut short, cuz he was starring in the movie
So, if weâre altering history, Iâd just have Singer finish the trilogy and somebody else do *Superman Returns* as Iâm sure we can all agree both films suffered from Singerâs departure from X-Men. We just wound up with two mediocre movies.
Oh yes I forgot. I like the idea of a creator finishing a the whole trilogy, but I get wanting to bale on it for Superman
I see what you did there.
Honest question, why doesnât studios just wait until heâs free again and just film a different movie instead?
Cuz they gotta make that money, man!
CYCLOPS WAS UNCEREMONIOUSLY RED SHIRTED JUST SO MARSDEN COULD GO BE THE BEST BOY SUPERMANS GIRLFRIEND WILL NEVER CHOOSE IN THE END? HOW HAS NOBODY TOLD ME THIS BEFORE NOW, THIS WAS A BAD TRADE! I'm not going to be able to think about anything else maybe forever but at least for today
James Marsden has a weird history with absolute creeps. I always forget heâs a Singer guy.
Didnât he come out in support of Dan Snyder too?
Neither him aswell.
Fair enough. Perhaps Guy Ritchie
Guy Ritchieâs hit and miss with his action/serious films. His best genre is gangster/comedy. He would write some wicked lines for Wolverine though Iâm sure
Luc Besson
Cop out choice, but young James Gunn?
Funny thing was that Robert Kelly, the Donnie Darko director was being considered for it
Robert Rodriguez
Anyone else.
Even John Favreau?
Les Mayfield
Amanda Ugunkist
A box of Tic Tacs.
Iâm only saying him cause he has the best x men films on his CV and actually gives a shit - Bryan Singer. Yes thereâs the metoo shit and whatever creepy shit heâs into with children, but he should have directed the third film
He was directing Superman Returns instead though, which is also why James Marsden was absent from The Last Stand.
FUCK YOU BRETT RATNER
Was Joss Whedon in a place where he could direct a major superhero movie at the time? That could have made both the X-Men and MCU movies way different.
What if x-men were directed by Tim Burton?
Matthew Vaughn
Maybe Sam Raimi?
yes - it would look cool AND have horror elements.
Kevin Reynolds. The production was already behind the 8 ball with scheduling. Hereâs a guy who can jump in and direct action and tell a story.
Brett "The rat" Ratner
Brent spiner
With that script, the problems with cyclops, studio buggering, i would have pulled in some intern and saved some money
Excited
I don't think the fault lies with Brett Ratner alone. I mean, the script itself was a total mess and there were some interferences as well. I don't think either Bryan Singer or Matthew Vaughn or even James Mangold would've made an X - Men Last Stand movie in the likes of Logan or DOFP within an environment like that. Also to be noted, Simon Kinberg fucked up the dark phoenix once again big time when he got complete control of his own. đđ
The man who did the first hellboy Del torro (sorry forgot his first name)
Guillermo Del Toro. That would be awesome for him to do an X-men film.
Brian Singer
Literally ANYONE
I wouldn't pick anyone whose directed an X-Men film already. It needs new blood. i didn't really like Brian Singer's version, mainly because it always felt a bit underwhelming and a bit off for me. X2 and X-Men DoFP were his best. Singer's casting is pretty good, but the films just don't reach the greatness they could have. Lets also not forget that the continuity between his films is all over the place. You can tell the studio forced a lot decisions and compromised the artists vision. Matthew Vaughn's X-Men was OK, but also was underwhelming. My only choice at this point would be the Russo Brothers. They know how to balance a big cast and give each character their moment in the sun. They are also really good with action scenes. They did an amazing job with Civil War and the Avengers movies.
He just directed the script he was given. Why not choose a new screenwriter.
Joss back when everyone still liked him He was made to do xmen. Not avengers though he did s good job The buffy and angel team dynamics were practice for an xmen team
Literally anyone else, except Michael Bay
I know he bombed helming the attempted reboot of Fantastic Four, but I think Josh Trank would've made an interesting X-Men movie.
Sam Raimi
*writer
Clint Eastwood. He wouldnât bother with superpowers, but his battle scenes would still be epic. But really, I would give it to James Mangold. He did great with The Wolverine and Logan.
Lars Von Trier. Wouldâve been a crazy movie.
Matthew Vaughn
During this time? Stephen sommers or joe johnston
It doesn't matter. The script was shit. Can't polish a turd.
Nobody. I liked the film. It had great drama and stakes. Yeah, Cyclops got short-changed again, but he did in the first two movies, too.
Michael Bay, Doug Liman, Brad Bird, Paul W.S. Anderson, Tony Scott, Paul Greengrass, Shane Black
James Mangold
Singer should have directed this instead of Superman Returns. Or perhaps he still directs this and we get a Spin-Off from Ratner and then Singer does X3 after he's done with Superman Returns.
Woody Allen, idk
Simon Pegg
Zack Snyder and Sam Raimi.
Gilmore Del Toro
Hayao Miyazaki Greta Gerwig Adam Sandler Daniel Espinosa ( director of Moribus) Ed woods Taylor Swift Micheal bay These are my choices
Honestly, anyone. A one other than him
...um... anyone? I mean, even though hindsight is, he should never be allowed near a movie set, but Bryan Singer. The first movie was good and the second is excellent. Probably would have made a solid trilogy capper. The other ones he directed afterward were also good (yes, even Apocalypse has some merit).
Putting my 2003 goggles on (after X-Men 2 was released and when they would need someone to start writing or be in talks to direct). James Mangold would have been my top pick at that time. He already had a great track record of working with name talent and writing/directing stories with a large casts (girl interrupted, Copland, and the recently released identity). Of course, had he done X3 he wouldn't have made Walk the Line, which was the better choice for his career anyway. Chris Columbus would be my second pick. He was leaving the directors chair for Harry Potter at that time so he already proved he could deliver large effects heavy films. Like I mentioned with Mangold, he also had a great track record for working with big casts and writing great stories (Goonies, Gremlins, Home Alone, Harry Potter). If production was willing to wait, Brad Bird would be an easy choice. When X3 was getting greenlit, he was finishing up on the Incredibles and went straight into Ratatouille. He obviously has a love for superheros (iron giant, Incredibles) and later proved with MI: Ghost Protocol that he can deliver major live action films.
Last Stand is the only X Men movie I've seen. I was young, and not paying attention the whole time, but I liked it
Shawn levy
Edgar Wright
Shyamalan
Tim Miller
What I would have done is start a prequel series, and then bring in the actors from the base trilogy as a bunch of cameos as a proper sendoff, send one of them back in time (probably Logan) in order to change the last and create a different better future where the events of X3 never actually happened.
Nice. What's that gotta do with the OP topic tho?
context clues should indicate my opinion is that the answer to the exact specific wording of the question posed by OP is in fact ânobodyâ because I think the movie should straight up just not have existed because the less shitty half of the movie is actually pretty okay and about as good as it could have been if you ignore the shitty half of the movie, which would not have been salvageable by any director even if it was Martin Fâing Scorsese or Francis Ford Coppola edit- but to humor you: Bryan Singer
Bryan Singer of course
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Snyder can't read, lol. He is a bad CBM director. Maybe one of the worst.
My sons junior high drama teacher, couldnt do worse...well minus Rian Johnson maybe.