102 - Dazzler's Shining Moment...almost

Days of Future Podcast: Examining the X-Men

The year is 1980. Mount St. Helens is about to erupt, Ronald Reagan is on his way to being elected President, and over in Hollywood, megastar Bo Derek is preparing to star as Dazzler in what will be the first live-action blockbuster movie from Marvel. That's right, decades before we were all wowed by how impressive AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR was, we almost had an even more ambitious cinematic superhero spectacle - a DAZZLER movie that would have seen everyone's favorite disco-queen mutant, along with Spider-Man and the Avengers, zapped to the far future. Set to star an extremely eclectic cast including Derek, Robin Williams, Cher, KISS, The Village People, Rodney Dangerfield, and more, the DAZZLER movie obviously never actually happened. But in this episode, we take a look at the bizarre treatment written for the film (by comics legend Jim Shooter)...as well as the problematic, but perhaps more-relevant-than-ever 1984 graphic novel, "Dazzler: The Movie" (also penned by Shooter), which details Dazzler's encounters with the sleazy men of the entertainment industry.

But first, we discuss news of LEGION's third season being its swan song, ponder which X-property we'd like to see M. Night Shyamalan direct, share our thoughts on Wolverine teaming with Conan the Barbarian in the new "Savage Avengers" comic, and - bringing it back to Dazzler - take a look at the recent announcement of her and other Marvel characters receiving brand new animated series from Hulu.

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