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Geek Tyrant
02-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
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.
Gizmodo
01-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
Tim Miller Dishes On the ‘X-Men' Horror Movie He Almost Made
Slowly, but surely, Marvel's making moves to bring the X-Men to the big screen again in the next few years. As everyone waits to find out what all that entails (and who it'll involve), filmmaker Tim Miller looked back on the one he nearly did once upon a time. During a recent interview with the Hollywood Reporter, the Deadpool director talked about Marvel's mutant corner as the company's 'secret weapon. […] 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.'' In fact, he had an X-film in development at one point, which would've been based on Chris Claremont and John Byrne's Uncanny X-Men #143. In that, the team departs the mansion for the holidays, leaving Kitty Pryde on her own. While left to her own devices, an N'Garai—demons the team previously fought over the years—invades the mansion, and she's got to hold her own against it. Miller described the film as 'Home Alone meets Alien,' and it seems this was the Kitty solo movie Fox announced back in 2018 that he would've directed from a script by comics scribe Brian Michael Bendis. (At the time, Kitty was part of the Guardians of the Galaxy as Star-Lord during Bendis and Valerio Schiti's 2015-2017 run). Unfortunately, this was in development at Fox around the time of its merger with Disney, so it was one of many ideas—along with publicized solo films for Gambit and Multiple Man, plus a hopeful Fantastic Four crossover—which never came to cinematic fruition. X-Men movies were typically action affairs, but Fox let the characters dip into horror with New Mutants. It was the last franchise movie of the Fox era, but once they've properly settled into the MCU, maybe they can be taken for a scary spin again. Either way, Miller seems to be happy with how everything's settled: he called himself 'the luckiest nerd on the planet' for bringing a proper Deadpool to the silver screen, and feels things have gone up from there. 'I didn't expect to have my own studio, or to do Terminator: Dark Fate,' he told THR. 'Being able to do Love Death + Robots is probably my achievement I'm most of. I'm old, but I'm not done yet.'
Geek Girl Authority
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Girl Authority
Marvel: What If… Kitty Pryde Stole the Phoenix Force? Archives
Avery Kaplan Random House Worlds has announced the release date for Marvel: What If… Kitty Pryde Stole the Phoenix Force by Rebecca Podos. Read on for more info.
Geek Girl Authority
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Girl Authority
Random House Worlds Archives
Categories Select Category Games GGA Columns Movies Stuff We Like The Daily Bugle TV & Streaming Random House Worlds has announced the release date for Marvel: What If… Kitty Pryde Stole the Phoenix Force by Rebecca Podos. Read on for more info. The Targaryens reign with fire and blood in House of the Dragon: The Official Coloring Book. Is it worth busting out your best colored pencils? Click here to read our review! Marvel Entertainment and Random House Worlds have announced a trio of What If...? adult prose novels to be released in 2024.
Geek Girl Authority
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Girl Authority
Prose Novel MARVEL: WHAT IF… KITTY PRYDE STOLE THE PHOENIX FORCE? Release Date Announced
We finally have a release date for the next book in the ongoing Marvel: What If…? prose novel series from Random House Worlds. Read on to learn when you can expect Marvel: What If… Kitty Pryde Stole the Phoenix Force? by Rebecca Podos. Credit: Random House Worlds. Marvel: What If… Kitty Pryde Stole the Phoenix Force? The fourth latest entry in the excellent Marvel: What If…? prose novel series, Marvel: What If… Kitty Pryde Stole the Phoenix Force? will see the return of America Chavez. And more specifically, the return of the America variant we've been following since the series' first book, Marvel: What If… Loki Was Worthy? by Madeleine Roux. RELATED: Book Review: Marvel: What If… Wanda Maximoff and Peter Parker Were Siblings? The story continued in Marvel: What If… Wanda Maximoff and Peter Parker Were Siblings? by Seanan McGuire. This was followed by the third book in the series, Marvel: What If… Marc Spector Was Host to Venom? by Mike Chen. All three of the books in the series so far have been engaging, unique and well-written windows in the Mighty Marvel Multiverse. The fourth entry in the series will initially be set in 1990. Raised by Emma Frost, Kitty Pryde is 'an apex predator of a superior species.' But things grow more complicated when Pryde begins experiencing visions of a parallel timeline where she's surrounded by friends. These include Betsy Braddock, whom she soon meets outside of the visions … and who has a radical theory about how they can set the world right again. RELATED: Book Review: Marvel: What If… Marc Spector Was Host to Venom? Marvel: What If… Kitty Pryde Stole the Phoenix Force? is scheduled to arrive at your local bookstore and/or public library beginning on October 14, 2025. Will you be picking up a copy? Marvel Announces 3 WHAT IF…? Prose Novels for 2024 Avery Kaplan is the author of several books and the Features Editor at Comics Beat. She was honored to serve as a judge for the 2021 Cartoonist Studio Prize Award and the 2021 Prism Awards. She lives in the mountains of Southern California with her partner and a pile of cats, and her favorite place to visit is the cemetery. You can also find her writing on Comics Bookcase, NeoText, Shelfdust, the Mary Sue, in many issues of PanelxPanel, and in the margins of the books in her personal library.
