Woot! Welcome fellow A to Z bloggers!
Today, X is for X-MEN! omgosh, I’m such a fan of Stan Lee’s X-MEN that even before the movie came out in 2000, the hubs and I were talking about who’d we cast for the various roles.
I was so happy to see Patrick Stewart (Capt. Picard from Star Trek) playing Professor Xavier!
I didn’t expect Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. I heard they were originally going to cast Dougray Scott (Sean Ambrose from Mission Impossible II) in the role, and I’m glad they didn’t. Sorry, DS, but I just don’t see you playing the fearsome Wolverine as well as Hugh Jackman did.
On my list for Storm, I had selected Angela Bassett. In my humble opinion she has that certain poise that I always saw in Storm, that calm demeanor hiding the inner fight for control over her emotions.
I’m a fan of James Marsden, but not for the role of Scott Summers. Sorry, but JM didn’t seem tall enough to play opposite Jean Grey. I had Tom Welling (Clark Kent from Smallville) playing Cyclops in my mind.
To be honest though, I would have seen these movies no matter what the critics said, hehe! The characters and their background stories are so fascinating, I’ve enjoyed each X-MEN movie that’s come out, as well as the individual director’s takes on a comic classic. 
Do you guys envision your dream cast for your favorite (comic) book to movie adaptation? If so, have you been pleasantly surprised or dragged down into the depths of disappointment?
I try not to cast characters in my head. Having read comics for a number of years, I’ve seen some of them go through a lot of changes, so I can generally cope with a different interpretation of them on the screen.
Smallville . . . was interesting. I felt like they dropped the ball on a lot of the continuing story lines, and I got frustrated trying to make things make sense. I think we stopped watching halfway through the final season.
Yeah, I like the way they’re drawn and that’s why hubs and I were like “who could you possibly cast for…” and we tried to fill in the blanks. We were pleased and not so pleased with some of the choices, but still, I’m a fan and still saw every movie.
Ugh, I so totally know what you mean about SMALLVILLE. When that show first started, I *loved* the idea of exploring Clark Kent-the teenage years. I enjoyed watching the relationship between Clark and Lex, Lex and his father, Clark and Lex’s father, Clark and Chloe, that “are they gonna find out he’s superman or not” kind of thing. Even as the show evolved, I really thought they’d spin it off from SMALLVILLE to METROPOLIS, but instead it just took all these other twists and turns and towards the end there it just stopped holding my interest.