New X-Men movie

I'm no fan of Zak Penn. I don't know how he has a job. Honestly, I don't know how you start your career making movies like "Elektra," and still people keep throwing jobs at you. I don't care that he has "experience in the superhero film field." All his experiences have BLOWN. "X-Men The Last Stand" was not just a bad X-Men movie, it was a horrible movie in general, no matter the box office dough.

But I digress. There is an interview with Penn up at Cinematical in which Penn talks Hulk casting and his future in the X-Men family of movies. Here is what I find interesting, and the point of this blog entry:

"...someone came up with a pretty interesting idea which I can't discuss. I was pretty taken by it, as was the studio. I have to give him credit, it was this guy who worked with me named Mike Chamoy -- he worked a lot with me on X3. He came up with how to do a young X-Men movie which is not what you'd expect. We'll see; I still have to talk to Fox, set the story down ... and then it will take a year -- maybe two years -- to get together."

Here is my sincere wish — a wish I've had since the X-Men franchise went to shit with "The Last Stand" — I wish wish wish this young X-men movie Penn is speaking of is a film showing the early years of the X-Men. It could star a young Cyclops, Jean and Storm, with Beast (the third movie establishes he was a former student) and then throw in a 'bad-boy' (possibly Gambit, for as much as I hate the character). You can even show their first encounter with Magneto, using the same young actor from the upcoming "Magneto" spinoff.

Sure this movie would have no Wolverine — but that would be a GOOD THING in disguise, and the box office would forgive it, as long as the acting and plot is good.

But, then again, if I get my wish it would be written by Zak Penn. That's the bad news.