Brett Ratner On Brett Ratner, Joel Schumacher, And How He's Not Going To Ruin 'X3'
The official Brett Ratner X-Men Franchise DestructionWatch begins in earnest with this MTV.com interview, in which the director attempts to convince the public that he was the right choice to helm 'X3' by promising more laughs, speaking in the third person, and perhaps most reassuringly, demonstrating that any ego-dissociative disorders he's suffering from do not include delusions that he's actually Joe Schumacher:
"Jackie Chan says Brett Ratner is the luckiest guy in the world," the director said of his "Rush Hour" star's opinion of him taking over the comic-book franchise, "and I feel like I am." [...]
"I'm not Joel Schumacher," he said of the fan-despised director behind "Batman Forever" and the even more poorly received "Batman & Robin," "and I'm not ... um ... who did the third Superman?" That would be Richard Lester. "I'm Brett," Ratner said, "and all I know is what I know, what I can do and what I have to work with." [...]
He also said you can expect his X-Men to have an enhanced sense of humor. "Not jokes for the sake of jokes," Ratner added, "jokes that come from character humor, that come from characters and that come from the situations."
Our crazy dreams about the slapstick antics of Broken-English Wolverine and Wise-Crackin’ Nightcrawler (hey, why are they riding around in a Ferrari while Magneto is trying to blow up Manhattan?) have inched tantalizingly closer. Meanwhile, Ratner's first big challenge has presented itself: trying to diplomatically suggest that Rebecca Romijn might need to hit the treadmill before they can spray-paint on her costume.
