{"id":156960,"date":"2025-06-04T07:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T07:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/156960\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T07:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T07:58:09","slug":"deadpool-director-details-his-x-men-horror-movie-thats-home-alone-meets-alien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/156960\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadpool Director Details His X-Men Horror Movie That\u2019s Home Alone Meets Alien"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deadpool director Tim Miller is eager to jump back into the Marvel fold with the X-Men, and has one specific idea in mind to introduce the famed team of mutants into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Speaking to THR<\/a> on the newest season of his Netflix series Love Death + Robots, Miller stated \u201cThe X-Men are my favorite characters. I wrote [Marvel boss]\u00a0Kevin Feige, and I\u2019m like, \u2018If there was ever anything that you would let me do in the Marvel Universe, please, the\u00a0X-Men would be it\u201d. Miller also further elaborated that \u201cI had an X-Men movie in development at Fox when the merger happened, which would have been awesome. [It was based on]\u00a0X-Men\u00a0143, which was\u00a0Home Alone\u00a0meets\u00a0Alien.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miller also stated that \u201cthe whole X-Men universe\u201d is something he considers to be Marvel\u2019s \u201csecret weapon they haven\u2019t been able to unveil yet\u201d. Miller himself has some previous experience within the X-Men franchise as the director 2016\u2019s Deadpool. While not an X-Men movie per se, Deadpool is nonetheless a kind of off-shoot of it, officially introducing Ryan Reynolds\u2019 Merc with a Mouth on the big screen (after his far less acclaimed debut in 2009\u2019s X-Men Origins: Wolverine) and situating Deadpool alongside such X-Men as Colossus (Stefan Kapi\u010di\u0107) and Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand). <\/p>\n

Miller\u2019s choice of X-Men #143 as the basis for his X-Men movie pitch is one that would surely excite fans and present a very different kind of X-Men movie. In X-Men #143, the X-Men find themselves battling a monstrous foe when the X-Mansion is attacked by a creature known as the N\u2019Garai demon. As Miller points out, the story carries some noteworthy influences from 1979\u2019s sci-fi horror classic Alien, while the single location setting and holiday season timeframe is also the basis from the Home Alone DNA Miller speaks of. That alone would surely make Miller\u2019s X-Men movie a unique one, to say the least.<\/p>\n

RELATED: This Is Still the Best X-Men Movie And It\u2019s Not Even Close<\/a><\/p>\n

Throughout the entirety of the original X-Men franchise\u2019s run, the series was under the purview of 20th Century Fox, which precluded the X-Men from appearing in any MCU movies. With Fox\u2019s acquisition by Disney in 2019 (the studio subsequently renamed 20th Century Studios), the X-Men became available to Marvel Studios for the first time. 2022\u2019s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness was the first MCU movie to bring previously Fox-owned Marvel characters into the franchise with the appearance (and shockingly quick death) of a variant of Sir Patrick Stewart\u2019s Professor Charles Xavier.<\/p>\n

2024\u2019s Deadpool & Wolverine<\/a> later brought back Hugh Jackman out of superhero retirement as a variant of Wolverine, Jackman\u2019s prior iteration of the character having died in 2017\u2019s Logan. With the X-Men-connected characters previously seen in the first two Deadpool movies, Deadpool & Wolverine effectively set the stage for the MCU\u2019s version of the X-Men<\/a> via the upcoming multiverse crossover event of 2027\u2019s Avengers: Secret Wars.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unlikely that Miller\u2019s X-Men pitch will be get off the ground before Secret Wars, which numerous cast members of the Fox X-Men franchise are confirmed to return in, and which Hugh Jackman\u2019s Wolverine<\/a> could plausibly make his swan song in, as well. Having said that, with Secret Wars setting up Marvel to start anew with the X-Men as part of its foundation, Marvel Studios should likely start laying the groundwork for the X-Men\u2019s role in the new franchise as early as possible. With Tim Miller\u2019s background directing the first Deadpool movie and coming in with a pitch already in place, his idea for an X-Men movie pitting the mutants against the N\u2019Gari demon could be a good place to start.<\/p>\n

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