It’s an announcement we’ve been waiting to hear for a couple of months, and it has finally happened at the premiere of Avatar yesterday- Bryan Singer has announced he is returning to the X-Men franchise he started, refined, and then abandoned for bluer tights.
“I’m prepping up to do a movie called Jack the Giant Killer [for] Warner Brothers, and I just yesterday signed a deal to do an X-Men, First Class Origins picture, which is kind of cool…”
There’s obviously not a ton of info at this point, but Singer does specify that this is the oft-mentioned in-development X-Men Origins: First Class that will feature the younger, original X-Men team (before amnesiac Wolverine joined). You can see the announcement for yourself in the video below (thanks to swissarmadillo for tagging the appropriate point).
Oh, and kudos to Flickchart for getting this up on their Twitter stream so quickly.
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How about just making your version of X-Men 3 with your take on Dark Phoenix. If everyone's accepting so many remakes, an "alternative movie universe"/"divergence point from X-Men 2" shouldn't be too hard a sell.
this is akin to the feeling a teenager has when after 10 years of neglect, their birth father returns home, presents in tow, to see their child bitter and resentful from getting beaten and fucked by their mom's new boyfriend. too little too late.
-It's been a great night!
-It really has!
(akward silence)
right…
great! he can ruin X-men further!
Yes, another prequel! They are always great. Call me when you get to X-Men 4.
Who wants to put $10.00 down on them trying to sort out a way to work Wolverine into this movie, too? Another Adamantium bullet to the head and everyone has to wink-wink, nudge-nudge about "meeting Wolverine for the first time".
Anyone?
Jeez, what a bunch of negative nancies, oh yeah, it's the internet.
I think this is great news – although I think the prequel angle is stupid. Why not just make it a New Mutants movie? (and then lead that into X-Force). X-men was well made, and X2 was great, I don’t get the Singer hate, X2 proves he knows how to make an x-men (or at the very least a Wolverine)movie. When you compare the first two films to X3 and Wolverine origins, why wouldn’t you want Singer back?
Wow this was unexpected. I honestly don't get it. Singer's way above taking Brett Ratner's table scraps. i agree. Fuck ratner's x3 and give singer both a legitimate x sequel and super boy adventures. I don't care about the kid, he did just fine with the dramatic tone for supey that I'd like to see done more in sequels and shit, but the movie's not getting made, I know…
I was thinking the same thing about a New Mutants movie. Of course, I read comics so I know who the New Mutants were. I'd be willing to beat some of the people who saw the X-Men films don't.
here's a link to what Bryan Singer's X-men 3 would've looked like:
http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/11/01/…trick-r-treat/
It's an interview with Michael Dougherty, one of Singer's X2 writers. Here he revealed ideas he pitched to Singer for X-men 3 and outlined what the story was to be.
IF ONLY 🙁
Could they have picked a more retarded title?
First Class Shit, I say.
Something tells me the reason Singer signed on is because this may turn out to be a Casino Royale-style reboot and he wants in on the ground floor instead of picking up Ratner's sloppy seconds.
wes studi is a god. Although he seems high as a fucking kite in this clip.
Move on, Bryan. Your style is too bland for X-Men. The Last Stand might've been a mess, but at least it had more fun with itself.
Singer needs to move on. The law of diminishing returns has rendered the X-Men franchise as just a cut above DTV. The first 2 films were okay (just okay), X3 was pants and Wolverine was underpants. That said, it's becoming increasingly obvious that The Usual Suspects was a fluke (+ it's greatness was mostly down to its script), so maybe Singer deserves to direct this bastard son of a bastard son. If he drops the ball, though, it's straight to director jail.
@14: Wes Studi is SO fucking high in that clip, God bless him. And Brendan Fraser is a rambling, pretentious prick.
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