Singer Talks More About X-men: First Class

I like Singer he was a good director he did an OK job with the first 2 X-men movies. I believe he has a good head to make first class a great movie.

They should use the original group but they already screwed that up if they are keeping with the timeline set in the first X Men. I still think this will be a good film if done right and I am willing to bet we will be seeing Sinister.

Well he screwed up the original series, why not keep the ball rolling? I wonder which cartoon he's going to base this one on? Hey Singer, how about doing some actual RESEARCH this time?! PICK UP [EXPLITIVE]-ING A COMIC BOOK!

Why do people still blame Singer for Zak Penn's scripts? Anyway, he did have a lot of influence I guess. Foe me he nailed the X Men. Not in every detail, but the essence of what made the characters great and what the whole concept of the X Men always was, what made them tick, why they struggled. But I guess we all get different things from comics.

I agree with Ror. This is good news. And I DO hope they use this as some sort of a reboot point for continuity, and restart with the original 5. But if they don't, I'd still probably see it.

Either way, I bet it's better than X3!

MisterFixit- No Scott looked like he was in his early thirties in X1 so where's the problem? What year was it at the end of Wolverine? "First Class" will probably take place in the 80/90-ies or something. Every young x-man will have to be recast while Prof X and Mags will be in their 40ies. Where's the problem??? Their doing the "teen" years, not the "young adult" years. Donner said it would be like a dark harry potter. What are you guys expecting??? Something good??? Never in a million years!

After X2, I already stopped comparing the movies to the comics; and when I did so, I started enjoying them as "movies." Despite the poor script, singer still managed to make the movie fun to watch. So don't get me started on how I felt when singer decided to drop the 3rd movie for Ratner. Give me Singer for x-men any day!

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Shaman@ in X1 The real age of Scott,ororo and jean was 27,34,35. And the only that looked exactly her age was Famke Janssen. The other looked more younger. The matter with these movies,ten year ago,was no warranty of success. No warranty of one or more sequels. So fox and sony cast the actors as for a one shot movie.

There are so many different X-Men titles that have been published, that the continuity in the comics themselves is a convoluted mess. Uncanny doesn't line up with First Class. X-Men doesn't line up with Extreme. Xaviar lives with and runs four teams at once on a monthly basis. Wolverine is in every city fighting allongside every other hero at once EVERY SINGLE MONTH.

X-Men continuity hasn't been cohesive since they branched off of Uncanny and launched The X-Men years ago.

I choose to look at the movies as just another run of the X titles, therefore they can do just about anything they want and I'll try and enjoy it as just another title in the line. ( Even though I have never followed anything but Uncanny as the original and faithfull line.)

That being said, X3 was atrocious (I did say almost anything they want) and I hope they stop taking the liberty of casually killing any X-Man they choose for whatever reason they choose. I would also like to see something that follows one line or the other a little more monogamously.

I would also like to see them fix the ages of the Angel and Iceman. They were there from the get go, not chldren that came after the second wave of students. Those are probably my two bigest gripes.

Sky@ i would like so much a combat like you said. But being an origin story we'll have 3/4 of the movie in: Prof X and Mag recognizing and assembling the students,the guys knowing themselves,practising their power,love triangles and so on. I can't able to think at their villain, supposing that the brotherhood doesn't exist and Magneto is 'good'. We'll see... like multi@ said,X3 failed but we have had the only great combat in that movie,which is a paradox :-)

You make good points Hawksblueyes.. as usual.

Yes! Bryan Singer is back! This is definitely going to be great. Can't wait.(Hey that rhymed too.)

I dont know how this film is going to go. Actually I'm disappointed they have decided to go this route. Being a long time fan of the original five X-Men I would hope that they would be in this movie but how are you gonna do it? They bring in Iceman as a kid in the first X-Men film and then bring in Angel as a new mutant in X3. BULLSHIT! They were two of the original five. Marvel Studios please, please get the rights back and show'em how its done.

hewill: This would be THE PERFECT oppertunity to fix the franchise.

By the way, I love your user name .

Darth: Thanks, I try to make sense, it just doesn't always happen. LOL

Gibby: Havok and Banshee would be cool. I always thought Banshee was an awsome character.

Some people have finally got to let go of the Superman Returns disaster. All directors, including Spielberg, make a crappy movie now and then. He will always have the Usual Suspects to his credit.

The X-men movies were pretty good. He did a great job with the script he had to work with and at least didn't mangle the character up too bad (i.e. see Brett Ratner). Singer's X-Men movies opened up the floodgate for all of the superhero movies we get bombarded with today.

Of course, I'm skeptical too, but we shouldn't totally write Singer off yet.

It looks like FOX have looked in the mirror and finally have an inkling of an idea that they don't know what the [frick] they're doing with X-Men. Which is why I think they got Bryan Singer back on board.
I see this as a good thing since Singer so far has been the only director to run the FOX/Donner gauntlet and come out with a decent X-Movie.


In the comics it was revealed, shortly after the introduction of the third summers kid, that Xavier had already sent a team of students to the living island of Krakoa (Giant Size #1). Only to have them parish in battle way before he sent Cyclops and his team - twice. They could play up that angle and the idea that Xavier had trained a group of mutants before Scot, Jean and the rest. Making all of these age arguments pointless.

I would watch the idea of Xavier training a group way before Scott and Jean, only to eventually have them fail hard (As in death for most all of the team) forcing Xavier to rethink his approach and exposing a heavy cost to his arrogance as a youth trying to save the world. Thus making him wiser and more protective when he begins to recruit Scott, Jean and the rest of them in an effort to correct the mistakes he made.

Again, It's FOX so I wouldn't hold me breath but maybe with Singer on deck we might be able to get something back from the franchise.

I'm also thinking Mr. Sinister as this new villain he mentions.

Yeah I love that cartoon too. Its amazing. But even that isn't very faithful to the comics..it is more than the movies obviously. Is the second season on yet?

@ ror-machine

i don't get all the hate about singer's xmen movies either. i thought they were fine. it was the third that sucks, but some even blame him for that, since he left and all...silly haters

This is why this movie is going to be bad, because just like superman Singer focus on the "romatic element" of the story.
And because I am sure he will screw up the characters.

Im sure Singer will mess this up as a big F-U to the fans of X-men.