Losing The X Factor: Make It Stop!
News that James Franco will play Multiple Man in a new film is just the latest attempt to add layers to a cinematic world that’s struggling to take shape. The very existence of a Multiple Man movie also reminds us that the X-Men universe itself is exploding into myriad new forms like a mogwai in a shower who’s just been fed several Big Macs long after midnight. Next year’s big mutant movies are a mixed bunch: X-Men: Dark Phoenix will revisit the famous comic book storyline in which Jean Grey loses her powers, while Josh Boone’s The New Mutants will further push the envelope
by segueing into psychological horror. Elsewhere on the big screen, Bryan Singer’s mainstream saga has been all the way back to the 1960s, swapped its cast for younger models and subsequently zoomed forward in time to both the 1980s (X-Men: Apocalypse) and the late 2020s (this year’s Logan).
