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EXCLUSIVE: Matthew Vaughn has decided not to direct the sequel to 20th Century Fox‘s hit spinoff X-Men: First Class. Ready for the next shocker? Atop the studio’s replacement short list is Bryan Singer, who launched the X-Men feature franchise with the first two superb films and who has been a guiding influence in this spinoff by writing the treatment and producing. If this works out, Singer and Vaughn would essentially be switching roles. Vaughn, who wrote the treatment for the sequel for X-Men: Days Of Future Past that was scripted by Simon Kinberg, would step back to produce the film with Kinberg and Lauren Shuler Donner.
Vaughn will do another film for Fox, and I’m hearing it will be the drama Secret Service, an adaptation of the Mark Millar comic book series that Vaughn has been working on with the author.
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. Fox hopes to make the July 18, 2014 release date it set for the sequel, but it will have to find a director quickly. I’m not exactly sure why Vaughn is bowing out, but he is pretty picky on projects that he directs. You’ll recall that he briefly bowed out of the original First Class film, prompting Fox to start a search before he changed his mind and returned. Vaughn also passed on directing the sequel to his Kick-Ass film, entrusting the job to Jeff Wadlow. Wadlow is shooting Kick-Ass 2: Balls To The Wall right now with Aaron Johnson and Chloe Moretz.
The studio just navigated a similar situation when Rupert Wyatt decided not to come back and direct the sequel to Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes. The studio had a cream of the crop group of directors waiting to take Wyatt’s place, and the search ended when Fox’s top choice, Cloverfield helmer Matt Reeves, committed to the job.
Fox has been trying to up the pedigree of directors who make films at the studio, and bringing back Singer while keeping Vaughn in the fold would be a pretty good feat. The studio did not immediately comment, but I’ll update my story when I have more information. Singer’s next film is Jack The Giant Killer for New Line.
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Bryan needs to asap because JTGK looms.
Agreed. It almost reminds me of Gulliver’s Travels. I hope I’m wrong.
What a horrible title! X-Men First class 2?
It should just be called “X-Men: Business Class” or “X-Men: Coach”
I think it will just be called X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Sarcasm isn’t your strong point apparently.
Doesn’t seem to be yours either.
You’re right, as I think his strong suit is not understanding why bad jokes aren’t meant to be funny or why anyone was meant to be impressed with your “sarcasm”.
Fox should grab Singer. X2 is still one of the best comic book films ever made.
Singer all the way.
Agreed. I’m sure it’s not what he wants to do. X2 is a magnificent film. The first good superhero sequel. It’s a shame that he didn’t stick around to finish his trilogy the way Nolan did. We’d probably think of Bryan Singer very differently nowadays had he made X3 (which would have been good in his hands) and not Superman Returns. It’s amazing that this guy had such a definitive vision for X-Men and yet when he made Superman Returns all he did was produce a 2 hour love letter to Richard Donner’s film. Imagine how disastrous Batman Begins would have been had Nolan decided to take the Singer route and tried to do a film that fit within Burton’s continuity (right down to the opening score).
This post has lies, starting with X2 being magnificent (it’s great, but what about the part where Nightcrawler teleports down the hole to save those mutie kids, and they do the teleport noise clearly after you can see Alan Cumming visible in the background..it’s very irksome once you notice it’s there when all they had to do was add the sfx before switching to show him down there), and then implying Blade 2 and Superman 2 were not fairly well liked.
Yeah just ignore the fact that the title is referenced within the first paragraph tripjack. Btw awful attempt at humor.
it’s not called X-Men First Class 2. It’s called X-Men: Days of Future Past based on a famous X-Men storyline.
Hire McTiernan!
McTiernan can’t direct a movie from jail, sorry.
As wishful thinking goes, it’s an interesting idea. I just watched THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER again. McTiernan really knows how to frame an action film. Obviously, his more recent work has been highly uneven, and, glancing at his wiki page, it would seem his legal troubles are still are not over.
I just home that henry jackman Will ne back for the score. It was amazing in first class! It Would be a shame to have a new x men theme and magneto theme
NOOOOOOOOO!!!
I was so pleasantly surprised by X-Men:First Class because I thought that FOX had ruined the franchise after Ratner’s woefully disappointing X3.
Singer is NOT the right choice for this project. Are we forgetting the first X-Men film? The cheap, wannabe Matrix like costumes that have proven to be not iconic. The accent/no accent from Halle Berry. The botched jokes (lightning/Toad). And lets also remember that Singer was a producer on X3…ya know the movie where they referred to Jean as “Phoenix” but she NEVER became Phoenix and instead became Dark Willow. Yes X2 was a winner but a one off doesn’t mean he should go back to the director’s chair.
Singer needs to stop trying to make a ‘comic book movie’ and instead ADAPT the comic. What’s the difference? You don’t have to copy other movies and you can stick to the source material. Spider-Man, Superman, Batman, etc. they all wore their costumes…the X-Men, nope, they get black motorcycle jumpers. Yawn. 3 films and Jean never becomes Phoenix. Xavier is constantly taken out of play. Storm has one bag wig after another.
Vaughn brought some style. Their costumes looked like a great combo of the original costumes and the Grant Morrison New X-Men costumes. Emma dressed like Emma.
And did I forget to remind you that Singer BOTCHED the Superman relaunch with his Superbaby Daddy crapfest.
Keep looking FOX!
Singer was not a producer on X3. He was originally going to direct, co-write and produce X3 (which would have been an adaptation pf the Phoenix Saga) but left the project.
On the other hand, Singer was a producer on First Class and co-wrote the story and planned to direct the film but how to drop out because he was top deep in pre-production on Jack the Giant Killer.
Singer wasn’t a producer on X3, but good try. He was a producer on X-Men: First Class.
Singer has no original ideas. He called himself adapting the comics but he didn’t live certain characters so he changed them. He ruined Rogue, Storm and many more. He made super powerful characters week mentally and physically. You are 100% right about Superman. When the movie started I thought he might pull it off, but as usually he blew it with his so called ideas. How does on man get such great casting only to #$$% it up every time?
We’re completely ignoring the elephant in the room here. After Rothman left Fox has gotten even worse and directors are leaving all their big movies. Who is next?
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Rothman only left a month ago — Fox hasn’t really done anything yet.
God please let them break the bank to hire Vaughn. Singer was cool but he is no Vaughn as far as X-Men
NO SINGER! This series needs to continue the fresh start from 1st Class and leave the 1st three movies behind. The whole team will be back in black leather biker outfits.
Singer’s next film is Jack the Giant Slayer…. title changed.
If they’re hoping to resurrect the contemporary set arm if the franchise, they might want to find a way to distinguish the period-set movies from the contemp set ones
Directors left their two biggest projects because of “creative differences.” Are you oblivious here?
I’d rather see a film adaption of Uncanny X-Force, with Psylocke, Archangel, and Wolverine doing the X-Men’s dirty work.
I am sorry but most people I know thaught Singer’s were awful also. Just a little bit better than X-3. Singer bailed and made a mediocre Superman movie. He should not be allowed to comeback. The fact that they are trying to connect the movies does not bode well for the fans. I am a comic lover and a movie lover, but I understand that where will be differences from my comics in the movies. But I think all 3 of the original movies sucked! They were decent, but X-Men has more potential than any other comic franchise to me and the choked.
I hope your “most of the people” you know can spell better than you. I suspect not, because few think Singer’s two X-Men were bad. Lest we forget, his first X-Men had a budget of just $75 million and, had it failed, would have sunk the current comic age we are in. He pulled it off, with a ridiculously small budget. And because he did, we got X2. Your friends aside, X2 is widely considered one of the best comic films ever made. He should come back (not comeback). And you say they are “trying” to connect the films. News flash: they HAVE connected them. First Class (Singer produced) was in the same continuity. So was the Wolverine Origins (sucked, no Singer) and, apparently, The Wolverine (which I hope Mangold pulls off more like Walk The Line than he did on Knight & Day).
I think he’s a very talented guy but the stuff he does asks a larger question I think : very expensive special effects combining with what the actors have to do including their other obligations : does it make it impossible to go back to fix or tweak things after the fact? Plus these movies are locked into a release schedule and business plan before the script even works. Happens time and again with the superhero movies. Crash developed as pure product/then audiences reject them as such Singer’s “Superman” being one of the the most obvious examples. It seems like development executives are a little “anybody home?”/”asleep at the wheel” when it comes to actual development too. It seems like after a certain point things just can’t be fixed in the mix calling into question the possibility of studio execs (whose history with these projects are usually a lot longer than the actual filmmakers) not necessarily having the wherewithal to anticipate problems as they are inevitably going to accrue preferring instead to just run over them with overages that impact everybody’s deals both in the short run and in the long run.
Am I the only person that thinks neither of these guys are a good choice? Sure (maybe) First Class was better than all of the other X-Men movies, but they were all awful, in my opinion. Not to say First Class didn’t have good components (Fassbender and Bacon) but it had a terrible script (“mutant and proud” just one tiny example of the forced, trite dialogue, plus they skipped DR. Charles Xavier ever being a doctor just to rush through the story), it tried to be socially conscious while hypocritically over-sexualizing every female character (especially the CIA agent who’s only accomplishment in espionage involves getting naked), and the action sequences, besides Fassbender, grossly underused the mutant powers. Plus it didn’t even follow the continuity of Singer’s films, as it claimed (Henry McCoy becomes Beast despite being seen as a human in X2). My hope is that, with the Days of Future Past storyline, they can completely remove themselves from any of the other films, like the Star Trek franchise, and should get a new director to further themselves from their spotty past. Somebody that can handle action and time travel? How about Rian Johnson or Duncan Jones?
(Henry McCoy becomes Beast despite being seen as a human in X2)–
This was already changed by XMen 3. They altered his back story for that movie.
I don’t necessarily have a problem with this, but I would prefer new blood completely.
Reasonable minds can disagree about whether Singer’s X1 & X2 were good. I think X2 was among the best comic films yet. Frankly, given how little time Bret Ratner had when he was handed the mess of X3, I was astonished at how much worse it could have been (and yes, it was still bad).
But the criticisms you had for First Class are pretty bad. Professor X did go to Oxford, earned doctorate degrees and, in the book, then taught at Columbia (I think…East Coast school either way) as a PROFESSOR, not a “DR”. He can teach at a college, not write prescriptions.
And get out! A stylized pic set in the 1960s based on a comic book (begun in the 1960s) that also uses an espionage angle that was an homage to old James Bond films had over-sexualized women in it?!? Clearly you need to read some back issues of X-Men. Yes Moira took off her shirt to spy. Why? Because she was the only competent agent on the scene. While her inept white male partner was busy being incompetent, the female spy took off her shirt because she was infiltrating a go go club run by the Hellfire Club. Had they been in a Church, I am sure she would have dressed like a nun because, again, she is a competent female in a blundering CIA run by men. Oh yeah, her other big accomplishment was that she DID infiltrate and got the intel needed so, you know, the government could go recruit Professor X (also thanks to said CIA agent).
Finally, your continuity evidence is lame. So what? It was on a TV in the background and only thrown in there to please the geeks. No one else noticed. If you still need justification, that was actually another Hank McCoy who knows about mutants. Small world. Happy?
Please, no, for the love all things sacred, no Singer.
Sorry, but the man butchered X1 and X2. Jubilee as Rogue? A 5ft. 6in. tall Storm…with light skin…and a bad wig? The heck?
Not one actress was right for the part. The only thing he got right was who was cast for the male leads. He is the only man I know who would make an X-Men movie, and would put more attention into making the male leads look more attractive than the women.
How do you make Halle Berry look dowdy? How do you take a Southern firecracker bombshell like Rogue, and make her a little girl?
And, don’t even get me started on whatever the heck it was he outfitted Famke in as Jean Gray. Calling wardrobe. He turned her into a whiny, little, starving wuss. Who would be fighting over Jean Gray in the comics if the character were really like that? They’d be asking for $3 a day to feed the woman.
And, just so you know, I’m a woman, and not even what you’d call a fangirl. But, even I could see that Singer’s handling of the characters was oddly lopsided/one-sided.
“…Bryan Singer, who launched the X-Men feature franchise with the first two superb films…” Superb? You’re joking, right? All of these films have been terrible, forgettable misrepresentations of the rich, amazing lore of the source material. First Class was no different, another awful bastardization of the comics touted as a step forward for the franchise. I’m surprised there are so many comments on this thread that indicate an apparent love for this current X-Men series. One comment actually said that X2 was one of the greatest comic book films of all time. That’s hilarious. To the asshole above who thinks Eustace is wrong in her assertion that most, at least most with taste, find the first two X-Men films terrible, I’d have to agree with Eustace. Those movies sucked, but just because you hold them in high regard doesn’t mean everbody else does. This is a franchise that is in dire need of a reboot.
Um, the people who hold X2 in high regard among comic book films (because let’s remember the context here) are NOT in the minority. It has a higher fresh rating on rotten tomatoes than Spiderman (88%). Empire Magazine ranked in #1 on their top 25 comic film list, whereas IGN had it at number 7. Of the countless such lists from other places, it’s in the top 10 or top 5 in the vast majority of them. Not that it’s a measure of quality, but it was a big hit at the BO millions of people generally enjoyed what they saw.
So, yeah…basically most people are in agreement on the film and you are one of a small minority of assholes upset everyone else does not agree with you. It should come as NO surprise most on these comments loved the Singer films. Your reaction is not of surprise, it’s one of anger. Because you are an asshole at war with reality. It’s like going to a 49ers home game and insisting that most there are not fans of the team.
What would you have done with these films? Enlighten us.
Singer is a better director than Vaughn. X-Men First Class does not hold up on repeated viewings. Let’s be honest for once everyone. First Class wasn’t even as satisfying an experience as Kick-Ass. People have embraced something quite mediocre as a fresh starting point post Brett Ratner’s x3. How can anyone wax philosophical about a film that cast JANUARY FUCKING JONES as Emma Frost.
No to Singer. Bring in a fresh director like Singer did with Vaughn. I think Jean-Pierre Jeunet deserves another shot at a studio film. Imagine what he could do with Days of Future Past!
HA! Fried gold.
X2 is “the first good superhero sequel”? Superman 2 just called to say no it’s not.
Well, this is disheartening. Vaughn was the only director who got the tone of the X-Men right. Singer is just not an ensemble director OR one who cares about female characters. He ended up making the first and second ones the Wolverine stories and made all the women characters weak and passive or evil. Want further proof? Look at how pathetic and annoying Lois Lane was in Superman and how Rogue went from being one of the most powerful characters in the Marvel franchise and turned her into a crying little girl that barely had any abilities. I REALLY don’t want Singer back, please keep him away from directing this franchise again. Find new blood, preferably someone who knows how to give all characters equal screen time the way the comics were.
X-Men one was okay because it was the first time someone took comics seriously, but it was still flawed as far as being an “X-men” movie and more of a, hey, want to know what Magneto so angry and how Wolverine just joined these group of leather-clad students? X2 was slightly better because other characters were given more screen time, but still, Jean was spending all of her time wondering what was changing in her, Rogue was still crying and ineffective the whole time and the only strong female character were the villains (Mystique and Lady Deathstrike).
I think there’s a subconscious prejudice Singer has towards women that he needs to get control of before he jumps behind the camera of an X-men movie again because a lot of us fans liked how strong the women were in the comics and want to see that strength portrayed accurately. Oh, and from all of the interviews I heard, Vaughn was also the only one who got the subtext of the comics: it was sub-textually about the civil rights movement in the 60s, Professor X represented Martin Luther King Jr. and Magneto represented Malcolm X. Vaughn got that, never heard that once from Singer (perhaps had his own vision and didn’t care) and Ratner and Hood, well, we just won’t go there.
Louis Lane was pretty annoying in the other movies as well though. He made Rouge take the role of Kitty Pryde. A scared runaway girl frightened of her powers that winds up at the X Mansion. It was a useful way to get introduced to the school in the comic book, and also for the film. Let’s not fault Singer for that device.
Rogue’s core power is the same. In the comic, the only reason she is ridiculously strong and can fly is because she absorbed and retained the abilities of Ms. Marvel. Rogue started off in the comic basically the same way she did in Singer film. The powerful Rogue you love was a scared runaway girl from Mississippi before she got that way.