For those of you who haven’t heard, Bryan Singer has signed on to do another X-Men film, this time it’s First Class and tells the story of the founding of Xavier’s school for the gifted.
He recently sat down with The Hollywood Reporter and talked about some details, of which there were few. The most encouraging thing about this conversation is that he’s taking it seriously and it looks like it’s going to happen. Here’s to hoping that after first class he comes back to pull a Superman Returns on X-men and forget the 3rd movie and go from there.
They also talk about his upcoming Jack the Giant Killer project and his big-screen version of Battlestar Galactica that is unrelated to the recent television series.
An excerpt:
Do you think the X-Men can exhaust themselves? You’ve got the original three, you’ve got “Wolverine,” you’ve got a “Deadpool” and “Magneto” in the works …
Singer: This story would probably utilize some of the Magneto story because it deals with a young Magneto, so it might supersede that because this would explore that relationship between a young energetic professor and a disenfranchised victim of the Holocaust.
But no, I don’t see an exhaustion. The X-Men universe is boundless. These are great characters. And as young characters, they are quite different than the characters we have seen in the contemporary movies.