When worlds collide: X-Bratz?
Arad, the man behind the “Spider-Man” and “Fantastic Four” franchises, raised eyebrows in Hollywood when he switched gears from his comic book safety zone to produce the tween-empowerment movie inspired by the freakish dolls with enormous heads. In explaining the move, he insisted that Bratz are “X-Men for girls” — it’s just that their superpowers are singing, fashion, soccer and cheerleading.
http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1565635/20070726/story.jhtml
Oh. My. PLEASE? PRETTY PLEASE? Can we have X-4 be just that?
- Wolverine singing cabaret numbers?
- Cyclops shopping for brand name glasses?
- Soccer with Nightcrawler? and with Colossus in a little cheerleader outfit cheering his beloved Nightcrawler on?
- Professor X’s Magic Makeover Party!
- Iceman’s and Pyro arguing over who has the prettiest scrapbook (then making up and making out)
- Angel being all angsty and writing poetry and standing on the roof of … damn, is this X-men or Buffy? Um, Warren being all pretty and winged and trying to find a salon that styles feathers.
Please? It’d be like “Bratz for Boys!”. A sure fire winner!
…I thought *X-Men* was X-Men for girls. Did I miss that memo when I was getting into the fandom?
Comment by wychwood — July 31, 2007 @ 8:54 pm
@Wychwood. That was pretty much the same memo I had. X-men was X-men, and X-men for girls was… X-men.
Bratz for Boys would be great way to pitch an action film though.
Comment by Stephen Dann — July 31, 2007 @ 10:32 pm
… Are they gonna make me trade my X-Men comics for Bratz dolls? Because I don’t like dolls at the best of times, and those things scare the crap out of me. *Clings to TPBs*
Comment by Tessa — August 4, 2007 @ 5:46 am
@Tessa - I think there were rumours of a buyback scheme where you could trade in content and materials for appropriately gender coded alternatives
Comment by Stephen Dann — August 4, 2007 @ 3:13 pm
I took Lisa Jonte’s “what are Bratz for boys?” question and gave it an answer:
http://divalea.livejournal.com/475252.html
(Lovingly Frakenshopped from pix of three actual dolls.)
Comment by Lea Hernandez — August 5, 2007 @ 4:25 am
@Lea Hernandez
See, this is where I think Hugh Jackman and Sir Ian McKellen would just to so much justice to “Bratz for Boys”. The awesome, it would be bobbleheaded in glory.
Also, you have both terrifying and awesome to your credit with that image
Comment by Stephen Dann — August 5, 2007 @ 9:52 am