X-Men ’97’s Director Admits To Being ‘Flabbergasted’ By Fan Reaction To A Very Specific Moment In The Trailer

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00:00Gambit charging up Wolverine's claws.

00:02It's not a move we've really seen in the comics.

00:04I read that you were the one that thought it up.

00:06How did you come up with that sequence?

00:08Yeah, no, look, man, I'm still just flabbergasted

00:12on how well-received that little bit was.

00:16Totally candid.

00:17That was just me working on my storyboard pitch

00:19to try to get the job.

00:20And I just wanted to see stuff that I haven't seen before.

00:23And luckily, part of what I felt my mission statement was

00:29and what to bring to X-Men 97 was also in tandem

00:33with what Bode Mayo and the writers in Marvel

00:36and Brad and Dana, that's what they wanted too.

00:39And that was familiar mutant abilities

00:43and power sets that we've seen in love, right?

00:46But just in ways we've never seen them before

00:49without breaking canon.

00:50So yeah, that was just me having fun.

00:54Yeah, and then another moment in the trailer

00:57that I liked is when Cyclops says to me, my X-Men,

01:00a line that's popped up here and there

01:01in X-Men history over the years,

01:02though usually said by Professor X,

01:04why was it important to throw this line into the show?

01:08Well, luckily that decision to throw that line in

01:10was made well before I was brought on.

01:15That's been in just since the first levels

01:19of the incubation of the script from Bode himself.

01:24And it was, how could it not be perfect, right?

01:27The way he explained it to me,

01:28we're in a post-Xavier world.

01:30Cyclops is stepping up to the mantle right now.

01:32They are his X-Men in that moment.

01:34So what better reason to have our boy,

01:39our favorite boy Scout saying those things

01:41and all credit goes to Bode and the writers for that.