Bryan Singer X-MEN: FIRST CLASS Update

Last week we reported that director Bryan Singer was not only set to direct X-MEN: FIRST CLASS, the story of the early years of the X-Men, but that he was being considered to return to the original franchise and helm X-Men 4 and possibly a Wolverine sequel. As with many of these types of early reports this was too soon to get excited about. It seems that 20th Century Fox enjoyed the script for XFC so much that they have put it on the fast track. This means that we could see the film hit theaters as early as a 2011 release. Singer is already attached to JACK the GIANT KILLER and would not have been able to direct XFC. Instead he is set to produce the film and a possible trilogy.

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I knew that the news was too good to be true. Bryan Singer took the comic book movie genre to new heights with X-MEN and X2 and to see him return to that would have been a fan boys dream. I fear that all the other speculation surrounding Singer and other X-projects will follow suit. It seems to me that Fox is ready to put the X-Men back on top and the only way to do that is to hurry this project to theaters. With all of the hype around THE FIRST AVENGER CAPTAIN AMERICA, THOR and the eventual Avengers film Fox wants to put Marvel’s mutants back in the picture. I know that stories like this is what drives hype into a project, but sometimes I just wish I didn’t know these things. It’s such a sting in my comic book heart when I hear great news about a film just to have it taken away. I need a hug.

What do you think about this turn of events? Should Fox rush this project into production?

Source Deadline.com