While this will be the first Multiple Man-led film, this won’t be his first on screen appearance. He first appeared in 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand which became (pretty much) a catalyst for the run of bad X-Men films – up until the brilliant Logan which came out this year.
The Last Stand was directed by Brett Ratner – who has since been accused of sexual harassment and gross misconduct.
For comic and film buffs, you’ll know this isn’t James Franco’s first comic book movie role either. He starred in the original Spider-Man trilogy alongside Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst as Harry Osborn, best friend of Peter Parker/Spider-Man and son of Norman Osborn/the Green Goblin. In the third – and horrendously bad instalment – he took on the Goblin mantle and became the New Goblin.
The announcement of an upcoming Multiple Man movie shows Fox’s attempt to capitalise on the modest success of their X-Men movie franchise. April 2018 will see the next generation of mutants take centre stage in The New Mutants.
This will be followed by the Deadpool 2 with Ryan Reynolds reprising his role as the 'Merc With A Mouth' and Josh Brolin - aka the MCU's mega villain Thanos - making his debut in the X-Men universe as time-hoping mutant Cable.
The duo will also be appearing in an upcoming movie based on the mutant special ops team X-Force. Also we'd be remiss to forget they're still planning to do a Gambit solo-flick starring Channing Tatum.
Things are looking good for the X-Men movie franchise.
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