Halle Berry Wants 'X-Men Origins: Storm'

The primary issue I had with X-Men Origins: Wolverine was that it had too many characters. That's true of a lot of comic book movies, though, and unfortunately and coincidentally, its the terrific achievements by the first two X-Men films that created the problem. An overabundance of characters is tough to pull off, but because Marvel wants to use its tentpole movies to launch new films for other characters (Venom, Silver Surfer, Deadpool, and Magneto have all been developed or discussed), that trend won't be bucked anytime soon. And now another original X-Men member is jockeying for another spin-off, which I guess would be a Petri dish for another handful of Marvel heroes. Halle Berry tells The Sun, "I think Storm deserves her own movie," echoing the feelings of exactly no one else. Berry is apparently less committed to making the movie herself, joking that she'd consider it "if I can still fit in the suit!" Yeah, because her body's gone straight to hell. My own feeling is that Marvel is trying way too hard these days. The idea that Deadpool and maybe Gambit might grow out of the Wolverine movie is completly unsupported by their involvement in the film. The Avengers arc will involve Iron Man, a failed property in Hulk, Captain America, and the high risk/low reward Thor, plus Ant-Man and a couple of other characters. And though Marvel doesn't exert the same control over Spider-Man that it will the Avengers movies, who knows what Sam Raimi will do with the fourth Spidey movie. The third one was killed by too many characters. It's really cart before the horse stuff for Marvel right now; outside of Iron Man, I can't think of another property that really has a lot of equity with audiences. They're going to make another Ghost Rider, because it made some money. Fox wants to re-boot Fantastic Four and Daredevil.So taking all that into account, I think this Storm will pass pretty quickly.

Comments

[SEAN]

This would be a good movie I think actually.

Halle Berry as we all know or should know does have the acting chops. If it was a good script and more focused on the emotional aspect and internal conflict going on within the character , unlike Wolverine was , it would be worth watching.

Wolverine had too many characters yes and no emotional or personal internal side to it like it shouldve had I agree.

If that could happen with Storm the movie could work.

But is it worth it? I dunno.

[Curtsquirt]

I think a Storm movie would be Awesome but if they do it I think they should go back to her roots back in Africa, she wouldnt need the suit but perhaps they could have Prof X, Jean and Cyclops trying to recruit her in the end because in the 1ST movie they were the only X-0men when they tried to get Wolverine to Join

[Keyli]

I would love to see Storm get her own movie. I agree with the previous comment that it would have to be taken back to her years in Africa. Halley Berry would be the only actress I would want to see in the part.

As for Gambit, more screen time with him would be so much fun. The Cajun has always, and will always, be my personal favorite.

I thought Wolverine did a good job, but there were far too many characters which led to very little screen time for some of them.

I would love to see many of the back stories of the characters, Xavier in particular, but making them all into movies is overkill and the thrill will die down. Perhaps someone should move the stories to updated novels instead? Hum...

[spoogesponge]

Storm was about the worst character ever. I'd rather see a Jubilee movie, and that's pretty bad.

[Get The Big Picture]

The problem with both Gambit and Deadpool is that they're so limited in the Wolverine movie that I don't think anyone outside the comic fans are really going to think their movies are worth it. And Marvel is clearly shooting for a larger target than X-Men fans.

To those who are up for a Storm movie: You'd rather have that than Jean Grey? If I could choose, she'd be next.

[WickedRogue]

I think a Storm Origins would be awesome. Halle Berry is a great actress who could really bring Storm to life and anyone who knows the comics has to agree that Storm does have an interesting back story. I would love to see a battle between young Storm, the Shadow King, and Prof. X. The only thing that I want to see more is X-men 4 with all the characters. I really wish they'd do a Apocalypse plot with a fully (Ms. Marvel) powered Rogue and have the love story between her and Gambit (my fave X-couple). I know he's in the Wolverine movie but they could say his powers cause him to age less rapidly or something- they could fudge it like they do some of the other characters. I think Marvel would be stupid to give up on the X-men franchise too soon. If they stop it now they'll have to wait years to revamp it and then all the original actors won't want to do it and new actors would have to be brought in and it would suck. And is another Hulk movie or Thor really an option? That's sad and a waste of money. As for a Jean Grey movie as suggested by Boyd- they did that already- it was called X-men: The Last Stand and Pheonix is way over done- let's have her not be reborn from the ashes for once. Let Stormy have her day or at least all the X-men.

[Get The Big Picture]

Hulk is in The Avengers, as are Thor and Captain America. There won't be another Hulk movie between now and then, but Thor will shoot early next year.

I don't think we're going to see a full-on X-Men movie for a long, long time, and it all depends on what happens with Avengers.

[hub]

halle berry can't have her own movie. she was a bond girl (curse) = her career is over!