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Zak Penn to Write and Direct X-Men Spin-Off

Source:  ComicMix
ComicMix recently spoke with writer-director Zak Penn about his new improv poker comedy The Grand as well as his writing duties on The Incredible Hulk. At the end of the interview, Penn talked about two new projects, one of which is writing and directing an X-Men spin-off film.

"It's like a young X-Men. It's a pretty cool idea, actually. I can't sell you the whole idea, but it involves a younger group of X-Men at the beginning." He also added that the film will be "getting back to the classic X-Men."

Penn also talked about a summer tentpole movie he's developing entitled Bermuda Triangle, a sci-fi film that will deal with that mysterious region.

"It is about the Bermuda Triangle and about all those kinds of mysteries, but he has a really cool take on it and it's like a big summer event movie."

Click Here! to read the full interview.

The Grand is currently playing in Los Angeles and New York with an expansion to come later this month and The Incredible Hulk opens on June 13.


19 Comments


April 19th, 2008 4:19am
mid 20's i think!
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April 18th, 2008 11:32am
Don't even know what number that's upto anymore.
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April 18th, 2008 11:31am
lmao
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April 18th, 2008 11:23am
what, like wrestlemania?
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April 18th, 2008 11:22am
Hope this won't be another popular franchise that made one film too many.
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April 17th, 2008 1:45pm
if he messes this up,........... i'll sodimise his ass!!
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April 16th, 2008 10:18pm
Zak Penn is a total tool. Why does Werner Herzog like this guy?
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April 16th, 2008 6:01pm
sounds great. One question: Who is this director? He's a friggin nobody
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April 16th, 2008 2:12pm
ugh..
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April 16th, 2008 1:45pm
uh sounds lame as hell...
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April 16th, 2008 11:50am
great news all around
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April 16th, 2008 10:49am
good luck!!
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April 16th, 2008 10:49am
Relaunch with the original five members please. Maybe even set in the sixties against the Civil Rights Movement
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April 16th, 2008 10:46am
don't give the slightest fuck who the fuck will direct this (possibly shitty)film.We are gonna be served a fuckin waste-of-money-film.Just another attempt by these no-talent directors to take our cash just by abusing a popular franchize.These guys have taken it pon themselves to be labelled as the ones who fucked the xmen up!
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April 16th, 2008 6:53am
guaranteed the xmen spinoff will be in development hell. dont read into it guys cuz we will prolly never see it. it will be scrapped or a strait to dvd or maybe they would change it to CGI. i doubt it will be live action. personally i think it sounds lame
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April 16th, 2008 6:35am
Well like comics they can start all over and change anything nearly anytime they feel like it. Granted I liked the first xmen movie mainly cause well it was xmen, but the movies got lame real quick, and got awy from xmen in my opinon. they changed too much for my liking and got away from he origins of many of the characters. So this could be cool.
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April 16th, 2008 6:27am
A younger X-Men? Who's going to be on team? Maybe since it's the "classic x-men" it'll be the original six: Xavier, cyclops, beast, jean, angel, and ice man. I don't know how angel would work since he was just introduced in x3, but he doesn't have to be included. All the others would work, even beast. It could be him before he became furry. I don't know about it just yet. Too many questions have yet to be answered. Bermuda triangel sounds cool.
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April 16th, 2008 6:21am
sounds cool....dont fuck it up
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April 16th, 2008 6:07am
Both of them could be interesting.
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