And the hits keep on coming. As though today’s Star Wars announcement wasn’t enough, the universe has decided to make geeks everywhere have to call the hotline because their erections are lasting longer than 4 hours.
You read that right, Bryan Singer will be returning to direct in the X-Men franchise. His last turn in the director’s seat in the franchise was 2003’s X2: X-Men United, which remains one of my top 5 comic-based movies of all time. The sequel to last year’s excellent X-Men: First Class, which Singer helped produce, has been long-rumored to be based on the Days of Future Past storyline written by Chris Claremont in the 80s as a way to synthesize the First Class actors into the world made by previous X-Men movies. This would ostensibly allow both James McAvoy and Patrick Stewart, Michael Fassbender and Ian McKellen to appear in a storyline involving time travel and an apocalyptic future where mutants are put into camps and hunted as enemies of humanity.
Singer fell back into the director’s chair after it was announced that Matthew Vaughn, who directed First Class, would not return for the sequel. He will, however, serve as a producer and I’m sure his fingerprints will be all over the film, much as Singer’s were in the last film.
To me, this is perfect. I’ll get all of my favorite things: McKellen AND Fassbender, Singer directing, and one of my all-time favorite comic book storylines. I’m sure there are people less enthused. Sound off your opinion in the comments below.
Days of Future Past hits theaters July 18, 2014.