Bryan Singer Might Return to Comic Book Movies

Bryan Singer has directed comic book movies for both DC and Marvel, but it sounds like, if he was given a choice, he'd want to work for Marvel again, particularly the X-Men franchise. Discussing the DVD release of Valkyrie with Total Film (via The Geek Files), Singer was reticent to even talk hypothetically about another Superman movie, but X-Men is a different story. "I'm eternally intertwined with X-Men now," Singer admits. "What takes an audience four hours to watch - the first two movies - took six years of my life. So, to not be part of it...It's a shame." But hope springs eternal: Singer is not opposed to helming the X-Men Origins: Magneto prequel, although that's really David Goyer's baby. Says the director of the first two X-Men movies, "The only thing that concerns me about Magneto is that if the prequel were to follow the track I used in X-Men, which is Magneto's history in the concentration camp, then I've lived in that world." "Apt Pupil, X-Men and now Valkyrie...I've lived in that Nazi universe for quite a while. I just might need to take a little break before I do something like that." While I don't think he should be in the running for the Superman movie, whenever that will be, he didn't steer us wrong with the X-Men franchise, and even Valkyrie showed that he can be trusted in a period drama. So if he wants to and producer Lauren Shuler Donner invites him back, that'd be a lot better than most options you could think of.

Comments

[Jason]

I would make sense for Singer to have some part in a Magneto origin, after all he really set the tone in the first X-Men film with the introduction to Magneto's powers...

[Will]

Singer's strength was tying multiple story lines together in a very short period of time. He did it nearly flawlessly in both X1 and X2, a skill he demonstrated early on in his career with The Usual Suspects. Does anyone know of any forthcoming multiple-character stories Marvel might be working on? If so, if he is ready and willing, there is no man better suited to the job than Bryan Singer.

[Get The Big Picture]

Hmm....The Avengers, perhaps?