When Wes Anderson Meets 'X-Men' (Video) — hollywoodreporter.com

With the color, the artifice and the ever-so-stylized realities, there’s an argument to be made that Wes Anderson has been making quasi-comic book movies for his entire career. A new parody video takes that concept to its logical conclusion by asking, What if Wes Anderson directed X-Men? As you can see from the video, the answer is “exactly the direction we wish that Fox would take the real X-Men movie franchise.” Not only does the short — directed by Patrick H. Willems, the man behind both Ingmar Bergman’s Flash and the re-edited, improved Ant-Man trailer — feature a host of familiar X-characters and in-jokes (even the line “hope you survive the experience” makes an appearance), but it also features the entirely Anderson-appropriate 1960s British invasion soundtrack you’d want from such a movie.

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