Could These Have Saved X-MEN: THE LAST STAND? Concept Art and Storyboards by Adrien Van Viersen

See early scenes from X-Men: TheLast Stand that could have saved the film.

X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) was a box-office success, but not everyone loved it. Justin Chang of Variety said the film is "a wham-bam sequel noticeably lacking in the pop gravitas, moody atmospherics and emotional weight that made the first two Marvel comicbook adaptations so rousingly successful."  That means it wasn't as good as the first two, which I agree with.

Concept art by Adrien Van Viersen show scenes from early versions of script that could have been awesome. In one scene, from an early version of the script by writers Dan Harris, Michael Dougherty and John Ottman, Jean Grey destroys San Fransisco and is overwhelmed by her powers. To save everyone, she kills herself and her "spirit" survives and becomes a "godlike cosmic" creature, which Dougherty compared to the "star child" in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Storyboards show a scene from an early draft of the script where Kitty Pride (Ellen Page) visits the President in his limo and the storyboard for the classic scene where she saves Jimmy/"Leech" (Cameron Bright) from the Juggernaut (Vinny Jones).

Plus, Colossus kicks the Juggernaut in the head.

Adrien Van Viersen is a professional concept and storyboard artist who's worked on big-budget projects like The Incredible Hulk, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and X-Men 2.

Check them out after the jump and click to embiggen (enlarge).

Wouldn't that have been awesome?! Now look at storyboards for the scene that did make it in.

Watch the Juggernaut scene.


See more of Adrien Van Viersen's work at www.adrienvanviersen.com

Click on the links if you want to see more of Adrien Van Viersen's work and X-Men: The Last Stand film.

Wikipedia Summary
X-Men: The Last Stand is a 2006 American superhero film, based on the X-Men characters appearing in Marvel Comics. The third installment in the X-Men film series, the film was directed by Brett Ratner and stars an ensemble cast including Hugh Jackman and Halle Berry. The film's script is loosely based on two X-Men comic book story arcs, "The Dark Phoenix Saga" by writer Chris Claremont and artist John Byrne, and "Gifted" by writer Joss Whedon and artist John Cassaday, with a plot that revolves around a "mutant cure" that causes serious repercussions among mutants and humans, and on the mysterious resurrection of Jean Grey.

Director: Brett Ratner
Starring: Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry, Famke Janssen

Official site: http://www.xmenthelaststanddvd.com/

@ Copyright 2006 Marvel Entertainment, Dune Entertainment LLC, Ingenious Film Partners, Donners' Company, Twentieth Century Fox, All rights reserved

You have read this articleAdrien-Van-Viersen / conceptart / Movie / xmen / XMen-Last-Stand with the title Could These Have Saved X-MEN: THE LAST STAND? Concept Art and Storyboards by Adrien Van Viersen. You can bookmark this page URL http://rarwrites.blogspot.com/2013/05/could-these-have-saved-x-men-last-stand.html. Thanks!

Write by: Arek - Thursday, May 2, 2013