“I intend to make sure that each X-man gets a chance to come alive as a real character, mostly by focusing on the small details…
“I intend to make sure that each X-man gets a chance to come alive as a
real character, mostly by focusing on the small details of personality,
the everyday humdrum routine of being a fabulously superpowered mutant.
It is to make room for this that I have stripped away the super-powered
villain layer–a risk, I know, but one that I feel pays off.” Michael
Chabon’s X-Men
screenplay treatment.
It is, as would be expected, quite clever.
In the living room of the estate. A stylish fellow with ice-blue eyes, a
beautiful young black woman with snow white hair, and the slight man who still
has his back to us, sit around on couches, listening as the bald-headed man
reads A Christmas Carol aloud.
[Note that Patrick Stewart, renowned for his one-man reading/production of
A Christmas Carol, played Prof. Charles Xavier in the actual film.]