Looks like fanboy rage has won again. The man who utlimately rescued superhero films from the fate that Joel Schumacher’s bat nipples left it in will be returning to the X-Fold.
Bryan Singer will direct X-Men: First Class
Singer was asked about his upcoming projects. After mentioning his next film, Jack the Giant Killer, Singer then let loose the big news, saying, “I just yesterday signed a deal to do an X-Men: First Class origins picture, which is kind of cool. I’m very excited.”
Kind of cool? I am sorry… kind of?
I figured it was only a matter of time before Singer returned to the massive hitfactory that his X-Men films have become after he gave up the opportunity to do X3 and it then became the most criticized film in the franchise. Thankfully for Brett Ratner, Gavin Wood trumped him with X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
Should be interesting to see an X-Film that isn’t about Wolverine though. I know he is the most popular of all the X-Men, but honestly… there has been 4 films in the franchise thus far and everything spirals around his character. Let’s move on.
After nearly half a century of X-Men comics you would think they could find something else to show.
Josh Schwartz, who is credited with already having written First Class (and one of my fav TV Shows Chuck) hasn’t revealed who the cast will be, however it might spin off of the cameo appearance of Charles Xavier in Origins: Wolverine in which a group of young kidnapped mutants – Cyclops included – make their getaway in his Helicopter.
I could see a first class with a young Cyclops, substituting Jean for Emma Frost as a love interest, and a young intellectual pre-fur Beast. Maybe fleshing out the group with others from that escaping group of mutants.
In the continuity Scott was already a student when Jean came along, and Iceman and Angel don’t join until much later.
