TOLDJA! Fox Closes Deal For Bryan Singer To Direct Next ‘X-Men’
Bryan Singer has just closed his deal to return to the director’s chair for the X-Men franchise to direct X-Men: Days Of Future Past, the next installment of 20th Century Fox‘s superhero series. The ink is still drying on the deal, we’ve learned. Matthew Vaughn was to direct the sequel to the hit spinoff X-Men: First Class, but we told you last week he was stepping back and that Singer would return to the directors chair in the X-Men franchise he launched; word is he is near a deal to produce this one instead along with writer Simon Kinberg and Lauren Shuler Donner.
Singer launched the X-Men feature franchise with the first two superb films and has been a guiding influence in this spinoff by writing the treatment and producing. Fox already has the script for X-Men: Days Of Future Past, and set to return is Fox’s First Class cast that includes Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy and Jennifer Lawrence. The studio hopes to make the July 18, 2014 release date it set for the sequel.
Singer’s next film is Jack The Giant Slayer for New Line. He is repped by WME.
This is a huge day in movie news. So exciting.
A dark day for X-MEN fans, a dark day indeed
Yes, the guy who brilliantly did the first two films is gracing us with a new one. Dark indeed.
the first 2 sucked
I wouldn’t say they sucked, but they weren’t as great as they could have been. I know a lot of people love X2, but none of the films did the source material justice. When I walked out of The Avengers the first thing I thought was, “Why couldn’t they make an X-Men movie like this?” They’re the ultimate superhero team and they’ve never fully illustrated their power. It also doesn’t help that they’re so obsessed with Wolverine. We get it, Hugh Jackman was the breakout, but come on. First Class was good, but had boring action. They need to learn balance.
First Class is at least close to what I think a valid Xmen representation should aspire. Singer’s first two are a hollow shell of that representation. (and the third is an abomination).
With this news, Bryan Singer has a chance to accomplish the single most important thing he will ever do in his entire career: bring CYCLOPS back to the X-Men franchise.
Didn’t they change the title to Jack the Giant SLAYER?!?
Lame! The first two Xmen movies are way over rated. Vaughn did an incredible job with First Class. This new one will suck now, like Superman Returns did.
Vaughn must have people working for him on here. His was the third best X-men film after the first two X-Men films. Fans made it the lowest box office of all the X-men movies. I mean Nazi Sebastian Shaw and hula hoop Havok wtf!!!
Anything good in the Vaughn X-men was ripped from X-men one the concentration camp and Magneto / Xavier relationship all from X-men one. White Queen sucked in First Class but better than the mess the third one was and Wolverine one. Hope Singer gets his mojo back he has not made a really good movie since X2. I wish him luck.
Are you joking me? People working for Vaughn on here? If you thought the last X-Men movie was bad, you’re probably using too many drugs. The previous 3, 4 if you count Wolverine, were an atrocity. First Class was an amazing surprise. I avoided it until I was on vacation and wanted to see any movie, just for the heck of it. Truly a gem.
No I’m not joking. As I said Vaughn’s X-men was the third best in the series. Better than the third and Wolverine and not as good as 1 or 2. Audiences liked X-men 1 and 2 better than First Class. No one is dressing a Mosquito Girl or Darwin for Halloween. Sorry if you got confused. First Class not a gem more like cubic ziconia.
You go to the movies when you’re on vacation?
Finally, someone with a realistic view of XFC. It was a weak mess of a movie that dumbed down most of the characters and screwed the X-Men timeline up so completely that it can’t possibly be in continuity with the rest of the franchise.
They shouldn’t have called it First Class at all. The first class of the X-Men comics consisted of entirely different characters. Now you have an Alex Summers who is forty years older than his older brother Scott, among other major mistakes. Female characters were trashed all the way through. About the only positive was the Xavier/Lensherr relationship, and that flowed from the first two movies.
Online fans have exaggerated the quality of XFC in their own minds. It was nowhere near as good as some would have us believe.
The xmen movie franchise is QUITE overrated.Bryan singer is overrated,FOX doesn’t care about producing any xmen movies that can stand proudly next to it’s comic book counterparts(hint,like avengers did),their bottom line is to solely make money,first and to continue securing their “rights” to the film license,yet another day.an if people continue to buy into these shoddy,vapid films,FOX will continue to win.the big wigs at fox will never respect the integrity of marvel’s work,like marvel comics/entertainment can.XMEN MOVIES SUCKED! they ruined ROGUE and made her into some emo weakling and they ruined STORM,CYCLOPS,JEAN,MAGNETO,JUGGERNAUT and each and every character affiliated with the xmen,and to throw salt into the wound WOLVERINE was made out to be some 6’3 pretty boy SUPERMODEL who was given most of the screen time,so in my humble opinion the xmen movies are really WOLVERINE AND THE XMEN MOVIES,the xmen franchise needs a complete overhaul,and that’s what marvel would do if given a chance to do so,they will eschew any fiber of what bryan singer created.
He never should have left in the first place. I blame him for the epic failure of X3 and the ruination of the trilogy.
Singer was supposed to have made a Battlestar Galactica feature film, based on the original 1978 tv series by now. He was partnering with Tom DeSanto with whom Singer was set to direct a Galactica tv pilot for Fox back in 2001. He attaches himself to a lot of projects, collects a check, and never makes them.
Tell me someone who doesn’t collects checks in this town, and projects never see the light of the day?
This one will get made.
Actually he was FIRED from that project because he insisted on doing a true to the original continuation.
I remain uninterested. This could have been a great opportunity for an up-and-comer.
I believe that Bryan Singer knows that he let everyone down with Superman. Having WB literally drop that film from the chronology, literally rebooting a franchise that he just rebooted, that’s painful for him. He also bears some of the blame for X3. I have a feeling that he’s coming back to this the way that Andrew Stanton is coming back to Finding Nemo after John Carter. He’s probably going to work his ass off to get this right. I wish him all the best.
What were they thinking?