Tim Miller Opens Up About The X-MEN Horror Movie He Almost Made: 'Home Alone Meets Alien' — GeekTyrant
While Marvel fans eagerly await the full-fledged return of the X-Men in the MCU, there's always a lingering curiosity about the mutant stories that never made it to screen.
One of those lost gems was a Kitty Pryde horror movie pitched by Deadpool director Tim Miller, something he described as 'Home Alone meets Alien.'
In a recent chat with The Hollywood Reporter, Miller revealed that he had once been developing an X-Men film based on Uncanny X-Men #143 by Chris Claremont and John Byrne.
The story centers on a young Kitty Pryde left alone in the X-Mansion during the holidays. As the rest of the team takes a break, a demonic N'Garai creature infiltrates the house, leaving Kitty to face off against it in a terrifying solo survival scenario. No backup. No Wolverine. Just Kitty and a whole lot of monster-induced chaos.
Miller talked about the project, calling Marvel's mutants their 'secret weapon,' and shared how passionate he was about the opportunity:
'The X-Men are my favorite characters, and I wrote to Kevin Feige like, 'If there was anything you'd ever let me do in the Marvel universe, the X-Men would be it.''
At one point, the project was actually taking shape. Miller was set to direct, and the script came from comic book legend Brian Michael Bendis. This was around 2018, right when Kitty was enjoying a run as Star-Lord in the Guardians of the Galaxy comics written by Bendis himself.
But timing is everything, and this project was swept away during the Fox-Disney merger, joining the ranks of never-made X-projects like Gambit , Multiple Man , and a Fantastic Four crossover.
While Fox's New Mutants flirted with horror, Miller's take would've been something totally different… intimate, suspenseful, and creature-focused. A mutant monster movie set entirely inside the X-Mansion? It's hard not to imagine what could've been.
Still, Miller isn't dwelling in regret. He's grateful for the wild ride he's already had:
'I didn't expect to have my own studio, or to do Terminator: Dark Fate. Being able to do Love Death + Robots is probably my achievement I'm most proud of. I'm old, but I'm not done yet.'
I love the idea of Kitty vs. Demon in a Haunted Mansion! That sounds like a fun flick and the kind of genre twist superhero movies still need.
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