This news is simple: Bryan Singer has officially signed on to replace Matthew Vaughn as the director of X-Men: Days of Future Past, following the latter’s reboot of the franchise with First Class.
Singer will return to the X directing chair a decade after abandoning the franchise to go make the Man Of Steel soar right into the earth. As the prodigal director returns, there’s no word on if Tom Rothman will make him kneel in front of the crew and scream, “I ABANDONED MY FRANCHISE!” while being slapped in the face.
I hope this is good news, but honestly Singer’s been out of the tentpole game for a while, and his last action outing is a great big pile of ZZZZZZZ. Hopefully he hasn’t lost his chops, as at one time he was shepherding some pretty sharp, unique spectacle to the big screen. Jack The Giant Slayer hasn’t been treated in a manner that belies studio confidence, but that one’s still a big question mark.
This is about like Jackson going back to Middle Earth- yeah he belongs there, but does he still have “it” when he’s effectively crawling back to it?
Source | Deadline
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This is horrible news. I know a lot of people were excited for X-men movies back in the day, but they were all average under his direction. They were nothing like the comics I read when I was young, and the changes were not improvements. The last one got a lot of things right. I hope it was enough so that Singer can’t screw up the formula up too much.
Renn Brown, It is a good move for Fox and Singer to re-unite with Days Of Future Past! I…X-Pect an X-Tremely X-Citing X-Men X-Stravaganza in 2014!
Wasn’t Singer a producer on First Class? I kind of had the impression that some of his fingerprints were on that movie, particularly given how hard they ignored the two X-related films that weren’t directed by him (XMO: Wolverine and X3).
And edgardevice, I read the X-Men comics growing up too, and while the first X-Men was fairly underwhelming (time hasn’t been terribly kind to it), X2 still ranks as one of the better (superhero) comic book to movie efforts out there.
Singer brings a lot of theme to the X-Men movies (never before has “mutant” been so strongly analogous to “gay”), and I appreciate the 2 ones that he did, but Superman was pretty awful. Basically, we’ve forgotten all the good he did once. He’ll have to prove himself all over again, exactly like Jackson and the Hobbit.
Singer is the one who put First Class together and made it happen. Hell, before picking Vaughn, he was actually going to direct it himself at one point. While I would never claim that he is the big reason First Class turned out so well, he is definitely a part of it. Let’s not act like he’s coming in out of the blue to sink this ship. He has been on board this as a producer from the get-go as well and already knows the production from top to bottom. Stylistically this will be different, but the script is already in place. We are arguably going to end up with a final product not too far removed from what Vaughn himself was going to do…and the latter is still on board as a producer.
“never has mutant been so strongly analogous to gay”. Well that’s kinda the problem with Singer, isn’t it? His “gay agenda” is getting tiresome. He made freakin Superman a gay pin-up. Bryan, most geeks are cool with cocoa shunters. You don’t have to keep forcing it down our collective throats (pun unintended).
A lot more than geeks go to see and enjoy these movies.
Besides, the comics seem to be shifting away from the homosexual analogy and into a combination of “Muslim in America” and “Illegal Immigrant” analogy. Though in point of fact the X-Men can basically represent any minority that regularly faces discrimination.
Renn, the title pun alone was legendary. “Join together with the band” indeed.
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