Regarding the X-men? It's just a rumor at the moment. But - if true? I get it. I've read them all - and that run has less characters, and is more focused than most of them. It only has four lead characters. Professor Xavier is gone. Magneto is gone. (Not dead exactly, just not around.) It drops the leather and makes them heroes, and also focuses on defeating aliens on the breakworld or their own danger room, or Professor X's evil twin sister, than say, humans going after mutants or a big bad mutant. So it pulls away from Bryan Singer and Fox's X-men films, and is a bit more lighter in tone, and focused.
The problem with the X-men is there are about 1,000 characters, it's insanely serialized, and it focuses a lot of the war between mutants and humans, with the mutants being the ostracized/disadvantaged and discriminated against minority. This is problematic from a cinema standpoint - because they are more powerful than humans. Also, it pits them against the Avengers - which isn't a good idea in the MCU, but works fine in comics. (I like that aspect about the comics, it gives it an added layer and complexity, but it's a touch controversial for a Disney movie franchise. (shrugs). )
Whedon's run - is kind of stand-a-lone, it doesn't require that you know all that much about what happened prior (there's over 50 years worth of back story in there - and you don't really need to know any of it - to enjoy his run on the comics). It doesn't get into the convoluted interpersonal soap opera dynamics. (You don't need to know that Scott had a kid by a clone of Jean's who is sent to the distant future, and comes back an old man, hardened warrior, who takes over the leadership of the next generation of mutants. That character isn't in it at all. Nor is Jean.) It's lighter in tone than the previous run by Grant Morrison. And it is lighter in tone than the runs done directly after it. Plus they are wearing superhero customes (brightly colored), and acting as heroes.
So yeah, I honestly think it's the only run they can reasonably do without running into issues. And it fits with what is currently going on with the MCU - the alien invasions, and the mutli-verse stuff.
In other words, it's not a matter of quality or acclaim (although that was admittedly one of the better and more cohesive runs - Whedon managed to keep one artist and stayed the writer throughout, that's kind of rare ), so much as logistics, cast size, and ease of adaptation from a cost/benefit analysis standpoint.
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Regarding the X-men? It's just a rumor at the moment. But - if true? I get it. I've read them all - and that run has less characters, and is more focused than most of them. It only has four lead characters. Professor Xavier is gone. Magneto is gone. (Not dead exactly, just not around.) It drops the leather and makes them heroes, and also focuses on defeating aliens on the breakworld or their own danger room, or Professor X's evil twin sister, than say, humans going after mutants or a big bad mutant. So it pulls away from Bryan Singer and Fox's X-men films, and is a bit more lighter in tone, and focused.
The problem with the X-men is there are about 1,000 characters, it's insanely serialized, and it focuses a lot of the war between mutants and humans, with the mutants being the ostracized/disadvantaged and discriminated against minority. This is problematic from a cinema standpoint - because they are more powerful than humans. Also, it pits them against the Avengers - which isn't a good idea in the MCU, but works fine in comics. (I like that aspect about the comics, it gives it an added layer and complexity, but it's a touch controversial for a Disney movie franchise. (shrugs). )
Whedon's run - is kind of stand-a-lone, it doesn't require that you know all that much about what happened prior (there's over 50 years worth of back story in there - and you don't really need to know any of it - to enjoy his run on the comics). It doesn't get into the convoluted interpersonal soap opera dynamics. (You don't need to know that Scott had a kid by a clone of Jean's who is sent to the distant future, and comes back an old man, hardened warrior, who takes over the leadership of the next generation of mutants. That character isn't in it at all. Nor is Jean.) It's lighter in tone than the previous run by Grant Morrison. And it is lighter in tone than the runs done directly after it. Plus they are wearing superhero customes (brightly colored), and acting as heroes.
So yeah, I honestly think it's the only run they can reasonably do without running into issues. And it fits with what is currently going on with the MCU - the alien invasions, and the mutli-verse stuff.
In other words, it's not a matter of quality or acclaim (although that was admittedly one of the better and more cohesive runs - Whedon managed to keep one artist and stayed the writer throughout, that's kind of rare ), so much as logistics, cast size, and ease of adaptation from a cost/benefit analysis standpoint.