I decided to look it up on Wikipedia since I was rumaging around for Venom details....this explains somethings ON and OFF the screen...peep..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-men_3#Possible_sequel.28s.29
Possible sequel(s)
Patrick Stewart and Halle Berry said that if the movie fares well, there will be more in the franchise. The final scene and the scene after the end-credits leave the possibility open. Vinnie Jones said that when contracting for his role as the Juggernaut, he signed for three movies, although this is standard procedure on planned franchise projects.
A Wolverine spin-off and a Magneto spin-off have been announced and are in the scripting stages.
Differences from the comics
Note: several items here skip items mentioned elsewhere in this article, such as the source of Cain Marko's power and his relationship to Xavier, though they technically should be mentioned here.
- Xavier and Magneto were friends in the comics, having met each other in a mental hospital in Israel. It was there that they parted ways after a confrontation with Baron Struker; this occurred years before the founding of the X-men (Uncanny X-men # 161). In the films the impression is given that Magnus and Xavier were friends and founded the School for Gifted Youngsters before parting ways (hence the scene where they recruit Jean Grey).
- The distinct impression is given in the last film that Jean Grey is in fact bonded with the Phoenix Force at the end of the last film, X2, before she "died", swept away by the water released from the dam. In this film, however, the Phoenix is portrayed as a repressed personality of Jean Grey, her latent "dark side", as opposed to the universal source of power that it is in the comics. How she becomes the Phoenix is significantly different as well; in the comics she gains this power after trying to pilot a space shuttle through a solar flare after the X-men escaped confinement on an orbiting space station (Uncanny X-men #100 and #101). In the films she is simply always this powerful, but the power has been supressed by Professor Xavier.
- Several of the film's secondary characters, including Callisto and Leech, are members of the Morlocks, a group of mutants who live under New York City in the comics. No such affiliation is mentioned in the film.
- Although several characters die in the course of altering timelines (Days of Future Past, Age of Apocalypse), in the "main" timelines of the Uncanny X-men, Charles Xavier and Scott Summers never die, though Jean Grey does (and comes back to life several times).
- In the original Dark Phoenix Saga, Jean kills herself, rather than forcing any of her friends to do the deed. In the film Logan kills her, though it does echo a similar mercy killing of Mariko Yashida, his fiancée, in the comics.
- The "Fastball Special" that Wolverine and Colossus perform in this movie is more aptly named the "Hammer Special", as Colossus whirls Logan around before throwing him, whereas, in the comics, the throw is more akin to throwing a baseball, hence the name. This may have to do with the height differences between the actors and the characters, as the movie actors are very close in height, while the comic characters are often portrayed as being nearly two heads apart in height.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-men_3#Possible_sequel.28s.29
Possible sequel(s)
Patrick Stewart and Halle Berry said that if the movie fares well, there will be more in the franchise. The final scene and the scene after the end-credits leave the possibility open. Vinnie Jones said that when contracting for his role as the Juggernaut, he signed for three movies, although this is standard procedure on planned franchise projects.
A Wolverine spin-off and a Magneto spin-off have been announced and are in the scripting stages.
Differences from the comics
Note: several items here skip items mentioned elsewhere in this article, such as the source of Cain Marko's power and his relationship to Xavier, though they technically should be mentioned here.
- Xavier and Magneto were friends in the comics, having met each other in a mental hospital in Israel. It was there that they parted ways after a confrontation with Baron Struker; this occurred years before the founding of the X-men (Uncanny X-men # 161). In the films the impression is given that Magnus and Xavier were friends and founded the School for Gifted Youngsters before parting ways (hence the scene where they recruit Jean Grey).
- The distinct impression is given in the last film that Jean Grey is in fact bonded with the Phoenix Force at the end of the last film, X2, before she "died", swept away by the water released from the dam. In this film, however, the Phoenix is portrayed as a repressed personality of Jean Grey, her latent "dark side", as opposed to the universal source of power that it is in the comics. How she becomes the Phoenix is significantly different as well; in the comics she gains this power after trying to pilot a space shuttle through a solar flare after the X-men escaped confinement on an orbiting space station (Uncanny X-men #100 and #101). In the films she is simply always this powerful, but the power has been supressed by Professor Xavier.
- Several of the film's secondary characters, including Callisto and Leech, are members of the Morlocks, a group of mutants who live under New York City in the comics. No such affiliation is mentioned in the film.
- Although several characters die in the course of altering timelines (Days of Future Past, Age of Apocalypse), in the "main" timelines of the Uncanny X-men, Charles Xavier and Scott Summers never die, though Jean Grey does (and comes back to life several times).
- In the original Dark Phoenix Saga, Jean kills herself, rather than forcing any of her friends to do the deed. In the film Logan kills her, though it does echo a similar mercy killing of Mariko Yashida, his fiancée, in the comics.
- The "Fastball Special" that Wolverine and Colossus perform in this movie is more aptly named the "Hammer Special", as Colossus whirls Logan around before throwing him, whereas, in the comics, the throw is more akin to throwing a baseball, hence the name. This may have to do with the height differences between the actors and the characters, as the movie actors are very close in height, while the comic characters are often portrayed as being nearly two heads apart in height.
