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Well, they could make a saga out of it, but it requires the kind of storytelling that Hollywood doesn't have the imagination or the balls for. 
Oh, and as I stated earlier, it was actually the Fantastic Four that found Jean.  |
Not quite. It was the Avengers that it started with. They went down there underwater and found Jean's cocoon. It was an issue of the great Stern/Buscema/Palmer run. Then it switched to the FF. Here's the cover:
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And this was mostly due to Marvel wanted to reunite the original X-Men team(Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman, Angel) for their own new comic series, X-Factor, which was separate from X-Men. The X-Men at that time were off-planet and presumed dead.
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The X-Men weren't missing and presumed dead until two years later. Unless you're talking about their brief stay in Asgard, which was over before the issues documenting Jean's return. At the time X-Factor was formed the X-men were still based in the mansion and not off-planet. It was Xavier who was off-planet. He had to be taken to space for medical treatment and he gave the school to Magneto.