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[retro_eidas]

Snagging this from a_caged_heart, but apparently...

Variety (subscription only) is reporting that Brett Ratner and Maggie Grace are both go for X3.

If you're a fan of Lost / Shannon and have been watching each horrific dark turn into abysmal mediocrity the current X3 has been taking... this is nothing short of a disaster as far as I'm concerned.

UNLESS Maggie somehow found a way to juggle her "Lost" schedule with X3.... rumor was Shannon was going to get killed off early in the second season if she accepted the X3 role. Unfortunately, with good reason. X3 is scheduled to start filming in August. "Lost's" second season IIRC is scheduled to start July/August.

Frankly, I could give a rat's ass about X3 anymore. I've written it off as a lost cause and hope for better things in the future (someone resurrecting the franchise in a few years from the doldrums Ratner is likely to bury it in). But Maggie Grace as Kitty Pryde just cuts. I *really* hope this isn't true and Variety was mistaken. Just the idea of Maggie and her people pulling a David Caruso for the likes of X3 (as it stands) is nothing but career suicide as far as I'm concerned. I'm afraid they've been lulled either by the hefty paycheck or the notion of Maggie starring in a big summer popcorn movie possibly boosting her star chances. Standing by and witnessing as X3 rapidly spirals into vapid popcorn movie hell.... I have little hope this decision, if true, benefiting the actress at all. I can already see people scratching their heads wondering what the hell she was thinking (leaving an astonishingly successful tv series for a grossly hurried, low-grade popcorn summer shlockfest). She's FAR better off sticking with Lost. Again, I really hope Variety was mistaken.

Not to mention, I'd just *miss* Shannon. Not a very popular opinion, I realize, but I really grew to like her as I was plowing through season one. I love the transition her character has made. It would be a damn shame to lose her now, so early in the series. There are so many places her character could still go. Just as it was a shame to lose Boone WAY too early.

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[devildoll.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I had a feeling this was going to be exactly what would happen back when they announced the release date for X3 just a few days after X2 came out. I knew right then and there the movie was fucked, because from that point on they weren't making a movie--they were making a release date.

What little hope I held out for this movie was crushed by the Kelsey Grammer announcement, so from here on out I'm officially indifferent to the whole thing.

[eido.livejournal.com]

*sighs* I didn't really start worrying (understandably, I'm sure) until Bryan pulled out. Fox just reaks of desperation, it's not like they're even trying to hide it. Ratner just drives the nails in the coffin. They were bound and determined to not only make this a gratuitous money project not to lose their contracts, but one laughably trying to compete the same summer against Superman Returns. Seriously, if Singer isn't rolling around dying of mirth... he's a better person than me.

Although, for me, this wouldn't hurt as bad (like you, my hope has long since been drained from the new XMM) IF it weren't so drastically effecting another of my fandoms and the newest at that. It's like the horror of X3 is contagious. What the hell is the actress thinking? She's leaving LOST! Whether you watch that show or not... Jesus. WHAT is she thinking? Maybe the whole script reads better than the tidbits we have or somehow the tidbits are out of context... but I seriously haven't the foggiest clue how that script can come off as anything other than shite. Or, less, worthy enough to even consider leaving a top-rated tv series... even if the pay seems better for a summer popcorn movie. The tidbits alone are mediocre almost beyond the humane.

[devildoll.livejournal.com]

Although, for me, this wouldn't hurt as bad (like you, my hope has long since been drained from the new XMM) IF it weren't so drastically effecting another of my fandoms and the newest at that. It's like the horror of X3 is contagious.

Yeah, that's just like salt in the wound, isn't it? There's been no official word yet on whether or not she'll have to leave Lost, so there's still hope. Unlike poor Beast, who has none. *sigh*

[eido.livejournal.com]

There's been no official word yet on whether or not she'll have to leave Lost, so there's still hope.

::crosses fingers:: What I'm hoping for is the death, if it happens, is left ambiguous. The characters believe whoever is dead, but the audience is given reason to question it. Although that seems grossly wishful thinking with how trigger-happy these "Lost" writers seem to be. I think someone needs to tell them the Hamlet-ending is usually best saved for THE END (at least of the frickin' season)! Of course, a character getting killed off for business rather than creative reasons usually just makes me pissy in general.

What I'm more afraid of is if the writers were planning to kill off Shannon regardless of MG offered X3. This could explain why the actress felt safe to accept the X3 role... she knew she wouldn't have a job soon anyway.

Unlike poor Beast, who has none. *sigh*

I did have a straggling hope Frasier was just voicing Beast (a la David Hyde Pierce / Abe Sapien). Unfortunately I just came from SHH that mentioned a "body scan". ::vomits::

[devildoll.livejournal.com]

What I'm more afraid of is if the writers were planning to kill off Shannon regardless of MG offered X3. This could explain why the actress felt safe to accept the X3 role... she knew she wouldn't have a job soon anyway.

That's what I was thinking, but was afraid to mention it to you, because you seemed so upset. I didn't want to make it worse. *g*