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Bryan Singer Interested in More X-Men
October 12, 2009
 Bryan Singer said Sunday he's interested in making another "X-Men" movie and has discussed the possibility with 20th Century Fox, according to The Associated Press.
"I'm still looking to possibly returning to the 'X-Men' franchise. I've been talking to Fox about it," the X-Men and X2: X-Men United director said at South Korea's Pusan International Film Festival. "I love Hugh Jackman. I love the cast."
Singer said the "X-Men" series is about tolerance and social structures. He said he likes to "trick audiences into thinking they're seeing fireworks, but they're learning about themselves and listening to what I have to say."
"The excitement about working in science fiction and fantasy is — the stories, if they are good, are about the human condition," he added.
Related Articles From Other SitesPosted by: Scarecrow_Boy on October 12, 2009 at 01:19:04
Just don't make another Superman Returns and you're in business.
Posted by: andy pand on October 12, 2009 at 01:26:42
Singer is a villain as far as i am concerned. It was his fault that we had a terrible X-men 3 and a terrible Superman 5 or whatever it was supposed to be.. Who the hell are you to give Superman a son. WTF. He has a lot of ass kissing to do before he will be accepted with open arms. It is a shame, his x-men movies started the super hero movie revolution, but he abandoned them for "greener pastures". I am very bitter about what he did. Not 100% against it, but he'd better not leave us high and dry again!
Posted by: Spawnacus on October 12, 2009 at 01:26:48
NO! Keep Singer away. Keep FOX away. Stop ruining the X-men!
Posted by: Joker Boy on October 12, 2009 at 01:27:00
If he could come back and fix that mess that Fox and Ratner made, then by all means! Just make Rouge awesome and get some Sentinels in this piece!!!...
Posted by: Andi on October 12, 2009 at 01:27:31
Brian Singer ftw !!!
Posted by: andy panda on October 12, 2009 at 01:31:44
Sorry if i am rambling, but come on Brian... did you really think you gave the world something worth while with Superman? It blew goats for nickles!! You left us to fend for ourselves with what could have been a magnum opus with X-men 3. I don't know if I can forgive you! You are an arse hole!
Posted by: DeadNotSleeping on October 12, 2009 at 01:34:12
I agree keep Singer and Fox away from the X-Men they've already ruined the franchise so far and please find someone other then Hugh Jackman to be Wolverine, please. Hugh is too tall, to pretty and to cheesy. The words Broadway and Musical should never be related to Wolverine in any-way shape or form.
Posted by: Tarc on October 12, 2009 at 01:34:32
Singer's work on X-Men was totally brilliant, but I have to agree that I pretty much hated everything about Superman Returns (excpet the casting and performance of Brandon Routh). I'd love to see Singer get back in the game and fix some of the mess of X3 (aka - bringing back Scott and Jean, as has been done many times in the comics, and getting Charles back in a new body).
Posted by: Eternal Knight on October 12, 2009 at 01:43:38
Since he instantly ruined "Superman Returns" and not being asked to follow up on it, why not go back to X-Men? He's hasn't made a great film since...I can't remember when.
Posted by: Big Pine on October 12, 2009 at 02:02:30
Singer does not need to helm another X-Men film. THIS FILM NEEDS AN ENEMA!!....and a major reboot. It appears that Singer is not signed on to do any other major film and it seems that the film industry is slowly forgetting him. He's not top dog anymore. GEt someone in there to do it right. I like the driector who did the film about the aliens invading Johanesburg, South Africa. He seems to have the golden finger now.
Posted by: loganator on October 12, 2009 at 02:02:49
Look guys..if singer can come back to the X-world, tat'll be the greatest turn off events from the so called dissapointing marvel movies we are having.But he has a hell of a lot to explain and disregard or reboot or whatever he plans to rectify the mess of X3 and a bloodless wolverine movie with a absolute letdown of weapon x creation scene !!(I loved the interpretion of Weapon X flash backs in X1 & X2 bloody and gore..I was waiting for the Weapon X scene for all these yrs and I got a few slash and a jump into a waterfall(not a escape thru a snowy mountain)and a naked hugh sprinting and doing a olympics style over the fence scene !!!
Posted by: Daruma on October 12, 2009 at 02:08:03
I think Whedon is their best bet to save the franchise. If he can resist putting musical numbers in it.
Posted by: loganator on October 12, 2009 at 02:08:32
Bryan..if you do read this..
the only way you can wash all of X3 and re-continue from X2 but still having X3 as a stand off movie on his own is by....
introducing CABLE & BISHOP !!! show the future..bring in Mr Sinister & Apocalypse..than bring Cable & Bishop to the past to warn the X-men to prevent the mishaps of X3.Tat way you can continue from X2 again..of course with jean still wraped in coccoon in the water.. but hey..at least we get back cyke and prof ! and can ignore X3...
Posted by: Wyngarde on October 12, 2009 at 02:08:49
Translation: Everything I've done SINCE X-Men has sucked, so I need to go back like a beaten dog and hope to save my career...
Posted by: loganator on October 12, 2009 at 02:12:20
Whedon...thought he was doing Wonder Woman..and well....."???????" is what going on with that project ! Screw DC for screwing the legendary heroes(save batsy!)
and screw Fox and Sony for butchering X-Men and Spidey !
"thanks for keeping the fans happy!" NOT!!!!
Posted by: Chris Roberts on October 12, 2009 at 02:15:26
Look People.When he did X-Men he saved the comic Book film genre,and he topped it with X2.
Time to stop all the hate.Superman Returns has nothing to do with X-Men.This Is not the place
to bash It.If he returns to the X-Men I will bet It will be the prequel film X-Men:First Class.Fox Is too cheap for X-Men 4.And I have had it with Reboots.This Is the easy way out.
Posted by: Oranday on October 12, 2009 at 02:18:31
I don't know why you people hate Singer so much, he established the X-Men movies as the prime example of how to adapt a comic book to film!
I can't stress enough that FOX NEEDS TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN!
It would be great if he gets to do the Wolverine sequel, but i'm looking forward to having a proper X-Men reboot, after X3 made ELEKTRA look like Oscar material.
Posted by: Chaos Bringer on October 12, 2009 at 02:20:10
omg no
that would be going backwards.
i was one of the 1st to cry foul over thesuggestion that whedon could do X3 but boy was i wrong. just read his astonishing run...no one knows xmen like whedon.he nailed it.give it to him.
Posted by: YeaOkYea on October 12, 2009 at 02:24:03
X1 & X2 were good but definately could have been different. X3 had a great story & plot but it wasn't delivered right. It was rushed & too jammed packed with mutants. I have hope that Bryan Singer can fix the mess X3 was. It'll be hard but I believe he can make it happen. Some things I wanna see happen is more character time with the younger cast. Bring back Cyclops. Introduce Emma Frost & maybe Gambit. Definately make the Sentinels the main villains. Keep Kelsey Grammer as Beast. Bring Beast back. He was awesome in X3. Let Rogue finally get Ms. Marvel's mutant powers. & let Wolverine be a supporting character not the main star!
Posted by: Matt on October 12, 2009 at 02:31:20
I think the object of his return isn't grovelling, it's working--he's looking for familiarity and a new story.
I think the X-Men films helmed by Singer were, on the whole, popcorn flicks that were meant to appeal to the largest common denominator--he explains that the fireworks are simply a shell to contain the message, but I don't think that message is readily clear to everyone in the theater. The only thing that stands out about his X-men films, for most, is the fight choreography and the narrative coherence; the former, lovely. The latter, inconsistent. This inconsistency of intent, of vision, lead to Ratner's ineffective stab at continuity, but with even less narrative fiber, less 'message,' than Singer's films had to start. Thus, the message was completely lost in a film that could have resurrected it in full (what with the mutant cure, and all).
X-Men is about discrimination, and acceptance of that which is different. Magneto, Stryker, and most of the villains are folks who have abandoned their logic for the sake of control, empowerment via sovereignty. The X-Men stand between those who seek power-over, and instead seek power-with. These are mutually exclusive concepts, and war is sometimes a product.
The quotient of dialogue to action is of great importance to a movie studio--every ten pages, some clash of titans must occur in what is deemed an 'action' film. A popcorn, summer blockbuster--and in this way, it is more challenging to produce a film that is genuine, while money looms large and corporate bosses strive for maximum projection across the globe.
X-Men on film is, to me, an insoluble endeavor. I think if Singer doesn't come back to direct, X-Men will stay away from the marquee for awhile--a decade or two. Until somebody has a new idea for those characters, a new story to tell that reflects an essence from the source material that the films to-date didn't tap. X-Men will enjoy a new beginning, and this is certainly a plausible scenario.
Or Singer returns, with his continuation and his aging cast, and the audience is left to be dazzled once more...with perhaps a bit of the mystery and wonder gone from them.
I don't know which will happen, but hey--let's wait and see! Either way, I'm sure it'll do great business!!
Posted by: senorashish on October 12, 2009 at 02:34:08
And another thing, what is all of this harping about X-Men 3? X-Men 3 was the same film as X-Men 2. It was the same story structure, style, and tone. Nothing was different. It was the same flimsy script with the same shoddy acting and horrendous subplots and cheesy dialogue. It was the same recycling over the humans vs mutants vs Magneto vs government storyline from the previous film.
X3, like X2, was nothing more than the X-Men splintered up and running around trying to stop yet another plan at erradicating mutants or protecting humans or vice versa. Nothing more. And nothing less.
ALL of the X-Men films, ALL OF THEM, did not live up to expectations and the franchise needs to be rebooted so we can finally get ourselves an nice, new, fresh franchise that can hopefully get things right from the start.
Posted by: D-MAN on October 12, 2009 at 02:34:29
I hate how any director wanting to make a movie about The X-men.Have to go threw FOX first.FOX did not create these characters MARVEL did.So I hope Disney regains the rights to everything Marvel.F FOX.
Posted by: redwing1 on October 12, 2009 at 02:52:14
to senorashish: i agree, fox needs to return the rights back to marvel, so they can fix the mess they made. and to matt: you're absolutely right. but the thing to remember is that this was the first ensemble superhero movie, a team against a team. popcorn film all the way, and i for one, who have been an x-men fan since the beginning (the original, core group in the comics) was glad to see it come to the big screen. 1 & 2 were the highlights, but 3 just left me guessing what could have been. should they continue? no. should they reboot? no. go back in time and start from the beginning, with the originals. learning how to use and accept their powers. as for a director, singer wouldn't be my first choice. but then again, neither would whedon. even though he has his finger on the pulse of the comics right now, you need someone a little more "nostalgic" to run the show. now, i'll leave that up to you, because i have no earthly idea who could do the job.
as for the actors who played the characters, some were good, others i could have done without. jackman, in my opinion, was almost the essence of wolverine. i still believe that angela bassett should have been storm. magneto was almost spot on. and xavier was, in my opinion, the right choice. but again, these are my opinions, and i'm entitled to them.
bottom line is, if marvel doesn't get the rights back, x-men and the others should not continue. because they will alienate the fans to the point that no one will see the movies anymore, and hurt the comic's credibility
Posted by: kri-el on October 12, 2009 at 03:29:07
I'm with most of the others on this one the first two X-Men movies were pretty good. I'll say there were things i didn't like but no movie is perfect. Mr. Singer you messed up Superman and now because of that we may never get another Superman movie. And you almost killed the X-Men too just so you could make your Superman tribute movie. Stick with one thing don't try to do all of them just so you can say you did it. Your X-Men movies were ok. Follow the advice given to you on these boards and just work on what you know. NO more Superman for you just try to bring the X-Men back from their slow death.
And recast Storm nothing against Hally Berry but she is no Storm.
Posted by: J on October 12, 2009 at 03:32:26
Why don't they call it 'Wolverine and the X-Men'.
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