{"id":38747,"date":"2016-05-18T23:18:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T06:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=38747"},"modified":"2016-05-18T23:29:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T06:29:33","slug":"rain-fan-film-starring-maya-glick-shows-a-new-side-of-xmens-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=38747","title":{"rendered":"RAIN fan film starring Maya Glick shows a new side of X-Men&#8217;s Storm."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D_W-PBfO57o?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Check out this impressive new fan film titled <strong>RAIN<\/strong>, which is inspired by and centered around X-Men&#8217;s weather goddess, Storm. Starring filmmaker and performer <strong>Maya Glick<\/strong>, the film is a definite passion project for her.<\/p>\n<p>Dissatisfied with the complete lack of empowered women of color in Hollywood&#8217;s superhero pantheon, Maya decided to take matters into her own hands and fill in that blank herself with a bold new take on her favorite X-Men character.<\/p>\n<p>As most long running comic book heroes have, Storm has had many incarnations and different styles over the decades. The version of Storm closest to this author&#8217;s heart and the one she needed to see brought to life is the &#8220;punk&#8221; version of Storm, originally appearing in the mid-80&#8217;s for a brief period. During this time Storm had temporarily lost her powers, but remained a leader and a fierce fighter though will, wits, and fists.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of this somewhat underground version of such a complex heroine is something that fascinated Maya enough as a writer that she found herself re-imagining the character in different scenarios, and the script was born.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the film&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/xstormfilm\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a> for more details and to send Maya some love!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=D_W-PBfO57o\" target=_blank><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"38748\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?attachment_id=38748\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160518_224410.jpg?fit=990%2C1462&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"990,1462\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"IMG_20160518_224410\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160518_224410.jpg?fit=640%2C946&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160518_224410.jpg?resize=640%2C945&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"IMG_20160518_224410\" width=\"640\" height=\"945\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38748\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160518_224410.jpg?w=990&amp;ssl=1 990w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160518_224410.jpg?resize=203%2C300&amp;ssl=1 203w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160518_224410.jpg?resize=768%2C1134&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160518_224410.jpg?resize=693%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 693w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160518_224410.jpg?resize=95%2C140&amp;ssl=1 95w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this impressive new fan film titled RAIN, which is inspired by and centered&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20,26,66,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fan-film","category-photos","category-storm","category-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/x-menfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_20160518_232333.jpg?fit=866%2C321&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}