Tim Miller Dishes On the ‘X-Men’ Horror Movie He Almost Made

Slowly, but surely, Marvel’s making moves to bring the X-Men to the big screen again in the next few years. As everyone waits to find out what all that entails (and who it’ll involve), filmmaker Tim Miller looked back on the one he nearly did once upon a time. During a recent interview with the Hollywood Reporter, the Deadpool director talked about Marvel’s mutant corner as the company’s “secret weapon. […] The X-Men are my favorite characters, and I wrote to Kevin Feige like, ‘If there was anything you’d ever let me do in the Marvel universe, the X-Men would be it.'” In fact, he had an X-film in development at one point, which would’ve been based on Chris Claremont and John Byrne’s Uncanny X-Men #143. In that, the team departs the mansion for the holidays, leaving Kitty Pryde on her own. While left to her own devices, an N’Garai—demons the team previously fought over the years—invades the mansion, and she’s got to hold her own against it. Miller described the film as “Home Alone mee ... Read full article.