Meizong Wealth Life

Chapter 160 Old and New Timelines, Mutant Cinematic Universe

"What about after the two origin movies? Connecting the plot of the trilogy?"

Sif asked eagerly.

The DV camera in Serena's hand was like old Logan's eyes staring at Sif, making her not dare to slack off at all.

Jamie chose to remain silent at this time.

Sif reacted and immediately took out a contract from her bag.

"Still the old rules, one million for each script, plus one million for planning consulting fees for the entire mutant universe."

The contract attachment was sent to the email address of Jamie's lawyer Jimmy Law Firm before Shiv arrived.

Jamie left the living room to call Jimmy, and after confirming that the other party had read the contract and had no questions, he returned to the living room and sat down.

By the way, he also brought a whiteboard from the study room.

In front of Sif and the DV camera, Jamie wrote the titles of the two movies "Wolverine 1" and "X-Men: First Class" in sequence in the middle of the whiteboard. After vacating the space for the title of the third movie, Write the title "X-Men 1, 2, and 3" in the lower left corner of the whiteboard.

"I said at the beginning that the timeline of the "X-Men" trilogy is too late, and the plot is very complete. The core story of "X-Men"'s racial conflict between mutants and humans has been eliminated. That’s it, which means that under normal circumstances, the development of the mutant movie universe would be over at this point.”

Sif was about to speak, but Jamie raised her hand to stop her.

"Don't worry, since I have paid you a million dollars in consulting fees to plan the mutant movie universe, I will definitely not end it after five movies."

As he spoke, Jamie picked up the pen and wrote the title of another movie under the "X-Men" trilogy.

"X-Men 4: Days of Future Past"

At the same time, the same movie titles were written in the spaces vacated under "Wolverine" and "X-Men: First Class".

Under the confused gazes of Sif and Serena, who was holding a DV camera, Jamie explained:

"The plot of "Days of Future Past" initially connected with the "X-Men" trilogy. Of course, some minor changes need to be made to the plot of "X-Men 3". Professor X and Magneto were not killed by the blackened Jean Grey. He died, but was seriously injured and unable to participate in the battle.”

Sif just shrugged.

Anyway, the "X-Men" trilogy has not officially started filming yet. It is just modifying some plot details, not completely overturning it.

In fact, being able to retain the "X-Men" trilogy has already met the expectations of Weststar Pictures executives.

After all, the actors for the trilogy have been selected and the contracts have been signed. If it is overturned, Weststar Pictures will face huge losses.

In the previous life of "X-Men 3", there was a small easter egg left at the end of the main film. Professor X's consciousness possessed his twin brother who had become a vegetative state.

In layman's terms, Professor X took away his twin brother's body.

This also reflects the conflicting mood of the producers at the time. On the one hand, they wanted to give the "X-Men" trilogy a real finale, but on the other hand, they were reluctant to part with this IP, resurrecting Professor X, and leaving it for the sequel. room.

This is just like Weststar Pictures currently doesn't want to give up the "X-Men" trilogy, but also wants to follow suit and build a mutant movie universe.

Jamie's voice continued.

"After the war in "X-Men 3", mutants and humans did not achieve peaceful coexistence. Instead, humans developed sentry robots to kill mutants. Professor Eventually they figured out a way."

"Using the special ability of the phantom cat Katie, Wolverine's consciousness was transferred back to the body of 1973, and he found the young Professor

"In the end they succeeded, and the Sentinel robots also came to the door and slaughtered all the remaining mutants. Before dying, Professor X happily told the Sentinel robots who killed him that they had won."

Having said this, Jamie glanced specifically at Sif and Serena, who was holding a DV camera.

"You must want to ask why future mutants still haven't escaped the fate of being exterminated since the Sentinel Project started in 1973 has been stopped."

"This involves the theory of quantum physics. Wolverine's consciousness returned to the past and prevented the development of the Sentinel robot, thus splitting a new timeline. The story of the "X-Men" trilogy takes place in the old In the timeline.”

"In this timeline, they cannot change the fate of mutants being exterminated. They can only go back to the past and split a new timeline so that mutants can continue to survive."

Sif's eyes sparkled and she blurted out:

"This way the story can start again from 1973, and it also perfectly solves the problem of the new story not being able to coexist with the current "X-Men" trilogy."

"Jamie, you are such a genius!"

Seeing Sif looking at her boyfriend with such excitement, excitement and admiration, Serena suddenly felt a little disgusted and deliberately changed the subject.

"So I can't wait to see what stories happen in the new timeline."

Jamie sold it off to his girlfriend, saying that this time the X-Men would face a very terrifying enemy.

At this time, Sif suddenly spoke.

"What about Deadpool? If possible, we hope to add Deadpool to the new timeline of the Mutants Cinematic Universe."

After speaking, she looked at Jamie expectantly.

"May I?"

This slightly ambiguous look made Serena even more unhappy, and she directly answered for her boyfriend:

"The plot of "Deadpool" is completely independent from the story of "X-Men". If I remember correctly, this was a request made by Weststar Pictures at the time."

"And in the origin movie of "Wolverine", Deadpool has been killed by Wolverine as a villain."

Sif rebutted point by point:

"The plot of "X-Men 3" can be modified, and the plot of "Wolverine" can also be modified."

"And there is no problem without modification. The experiences after 1973 in "The Wolverine" are all stories that happened in the old timeline. "Days of Future Past" has opened a new timeline, and the plot related to Deadpool has also changed. Within reason.”

"The most important thing is that if the "Deadpool" story can be successfully added to the mutant universe, Weststar Films is willing to pay Jamie an additional $500,000 in consulting fees."

It's no problem if you add money.

Serena's purpose in interjecting was to stop Sif from continuing to "ogrow" Jamie.

Now that her goal has been achieved, she has returned to the quiet cameraman she was before, handing the decision-making power back to her boyfriend.

"No problem, Deadpool's story can be set to take place in a new timeline, and some plots linked to the X-Men can also be added."

Jamie said as he picked up a pen and wrote the titles of the three movies "Deadpool 1", "Deadpool 2" and "X-Men: Apocalypse" on the right side of the whiteboard parallel to the "X-Men" trilogy.

Explain as you write. At the end of the story of "Deadpool 2", Deadpool took away the time travel device of the villain Cable, traveled to different timelines in the past, saved his wife and teammates, and by the way traveled to the timeline of "Wolverine" Here, he kills the gagged failed Deadpool before Wolverine does.

Before leaving, he specifically said hello to Wolverine, saying that he was just here to clean up the timeline.

There is also a highlight in the time-travel easter egg at the end of the previous life "Deadpool 2", that is, Deadpool traveled to a certain timeline and shot Ryan Reynolds in the head while he was reading the script of "Green Lantern".

When writing the script for "Deadpool 1" in this life, Jamie also recommended Ryan Reynolds to Weststar Films, but because Weststar was slow to advance the project, things went downhill.

Moreover, Ryan Reynolds has not yet acted in "Green Lantern", so this easter egg can only be abandoned.

However, it is important that Deadpool takes away the Cable time travel device. Jamie plans to use this to lead out the big BOSS Apocalypse.

When Deadpool traveled through different timelines, he discovered that in most timelines, the X-Men would encounter an extremely terrifying enemy, Apocalypse.

After returning to the normal timeline, Deadpool told Professor X the news.

At the same time, Jamie also made some detailed changes to the story of "X-Men: Apocalypse", the most important of which was the deletion of the character Jean Gray.

The casting of Jean Gray in the previous life of "X-Men: Apocalypse" was very unpleasant, and coupled with the bad ending of "Dark Phoenix", Jamie's impression of this character became very bad.

Especially the biggest flaw in the plot of "X-Men: Apocalypse" is the final battle between the X-Men and Apocalypse.

Professor

The operation was as fierce as a tiger's, and in the end Jean Gray burst out with the Phoenix Force, killing Apocalypse in one second, who had been unable to kill the other mutants for a long time.

Although in the comic setting, Dark Phoenix does have the power of instant apocalypse, the movie is very retarded to shoot like this.

It's as if the Avengers went through all kinds of troubles to fight against Thanos, but Captain Marvel fell from the sky and wiped out Thanos who had collected six gems with just a raise of his hand, leaving people speechless.

The main reason for the setting of "Apocalypse" is that the screenwriter was lazy, or that the design of Apocalypse was too strong in the past, which made it impossible to continue editing later, and could only use the Phoenix Power, a big killer, to destroy Apocalypse.

This also makes the previous efforts of Professor X, Magneto and others to fight against Apocalypse become useless.

Of course, to delete such an important role, Jamie would definitely have to say hello to Sif in advance.

His explanation was that in the old timeline trilogy, Jean Gray had become the final villain and was killed. It would be boring to repeat this story and character setting in the new timeline.

Jamie removed Jean Gray from the story of "Apocalypse" and also rewrote the ending.

In the new story, the new body Apocalypse covets is no longer Professor X, but the immortal Deadpool.

In the end, Apocalypse was finally defeated after everyone worked together and paid a heavy price.

At the same time, Jamie also followed the Marvel Cinematic Universe's image of Thanos and changed the character setting of Apocalypse.

Apocalypse in the original story is a flat villain, labeled a tyrant who enslaves mankind.

Apocalypse in the new story has a lofty goal. He wants to build an ideal world ruled by mutants.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are no longer controlled by their thoughts, but are willing to follow the Apocalypse to build a new world.

In the decisive battle, except for Magneto's betrayal, all the other three Apocalypse Knights died.

In the end, Magneto was killed, and Professor X, who had lost his best friend, broke out and briefly controlled Apocalypse before letting others work together to kill him.

During the introduction of the plot, although Jamie did not say it clearly, both Sif and Serena could clearly feel it.

Even if the story of "Apocalypse" is not the final work of the mutant universe, it is at least a phased plot.

After this, the old X-Men stepped down and the new X-Men took over.

Jamie picked up a pen and wrote the name of the last movie in the remaining blank space at the bottom right of the whiteboard.

"Wolverine: Fight to the Death"

The story is set several years after "Apocalypse". Humanity was not grateful because the mutants defeated Apocalypse and freed everyone from slavery. On the contrary, they became more and more afraid of mutants, and more stringent mutant isolation and extermination measures were implemented.

The main combat power of the mutants was exhausted in the Battle of Apocalypse. Magneto was killed in the battle. Professor

Wolverine was also severely injured by Apocalypse before his death, and his self-healing ability was gradually weakening. He could only live in seclusion on the US-Mexico border and take care of Professor X.

In the previous life, "Apocalypse" was considered the most successful and most acclaimed of the X-Men series. Jamie just optimized the background of the story so that it could better connect with the plot of "Apocalypse".

The final outcome is still the death of the older generation of mutants such as Wolverine and Professor X, and the emergence of the new generation of mutants.

In addition to starring Laura Kinney as Wolverine's successor, Jamie also arranged for Magneto's daughter Polaris to appear.

The foreshadowing has already been laid in "Apocalypse".

Magneto's wife and daughter were killed, but the only one who really died was his wife. Fortunately, his daughter survived.

The new generation of mutant stories will revolve around Laura and Polaris.

At this time, a total of ten movie names were left on the whiteboard.

There are five parts in the old timeline and five parts in the new timeline.

According to the release rate of one movie per year, a complete ten-year plan for the mutant movie universe will be formed.

This result was completely beyond Sif's expectations, and it also made her feel that the one million US dollars in consulting fees was well spent.

The "X-Men" trilogy, with actors, directors, and scripts already determined, can still be retained, but the filming time will be postponed.

The only one who doesn't need to be replaced is Wolverine.

Wolverine is the core character throughout the plot in both the old and new timelines, and Vestar Films has already selected Hugh Jackman to play this role.

Jamie had no objection to this, and also recommended "Yimei" and "Fashion" to Sif to play the roles of Professor X and Magneto in their youth.

Sif promised to consider these two actors when casting, and asked Jamie a question by the way.

"The successors of Wolverine and Magneto in the new generation are both women. Is there any special purpose for this arrangement?"

　2023 is coming to an end. I wish you all good health and all the good things will come to you in the new year! See you next year (＾＾●)

　　

　

(End of this chapter)