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Months ago there were rumors circling around that Gossip Girl/O.C. creator Josn Schwartz had been hired to write a screenplay that focused on “the other teenage characters attending the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning” in the upcoming adaptation of Marvel Comic’s X-Men: First Class.  Apparently, the project is not a spin-off like the Wolverine and upcoming Magneto films, but isntead, a full titled prequel to the X-Men films.  Lauren Shuler Donner, producer from the X-Men franchise revealed on Fox Movie Channel’s Life After Film School that the film actually focuses on “the first class of Xavier’s school, way back when.”

“So it’s young Scott, young Jean, young Beast and that’ll be really fun,” Donner said. “I think (the plan) is to follow some of the characters into their own stories, and weave them back into the X-Men world. And hopefully First Class will become its own franchise and we can follow them as they grow up.”

I gotta say, I’m upset. As cool as it would be to see the origins of these guys, it would be far cooler to discover the lesser known names of the Marvel Universe. We all know Scott and Jean, we’re tired of them. They are old characters. Why not spice things up a little with Domino or Cable or Agent X or the Runaways or Moon Knight or Cloak and Dagger?

You can’t tell me Moon Knight wouldn’t make a killer movie. And a Runaways Showtime show? Awesome. So, thanks FOX, once again for ruining a good thing.