Comments on: Bryan Singer Would Like To Return To X-Men Franchise

By: 1-7

1-7 — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:31:29 +0000

Your standards must be extremely low if you think that X2 is the greatest comic book film of all time.

By: Darren J Seeley

Darren J Seeley — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:29:44 +0000

How did Singer “kill the X-Men” franchise? Not only is it still going strong, but that’s like saying James Cameron killed the Terminator franchise because he felt there was little if anything else more to say and moved on. (In a way, he turned out to be right)

I wouldn’t say he “killed” Superman either. Someone else will pick up the mantle somewhere down the road.

By: obi-wan kubrick

obi-wan kubrick — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:25:59 +0000

I disagree with the Del Toro comment. I think the Hell Boy movies are downright awful but I like the rest of his work.

By: Slumdog

Slumdog — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:53:47 +0000

i didnt care enough to pay attention

By: NYCKING

NYCKING — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:27:44 +0000

I agree with John completely about ‘X2 X-Men United’ being one of the best comic book films of all time, if not, THE best.

When it comes to Singer and whether or not he’ll direct this thing if the powers-that-be decide it should get made, it’d definitely be a smart ass decision. Lets face it, people, 90 percent of what Singer does is always good. At the same time, while being an X-men fan, I’m not really a Magneto one. I think that if he were to get hired to direct, the green light shouldn’t get turned on unless there’s a big enough demand for it. I mean, I loved ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but it’s pretty obvious the film had a few problems, and wasn’t met with extroardinary reception.

Oh and yeah, I also loved ‘Superman Returns’, John.

By: Matt Keith

Matt Keith — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:15:33 +0000

And we all know that Jean was in the just the perfect state of mind in that scene.

By: Kaneda979

Kaneda979 — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:04:50 +0000

LOL, damn. Really I don’t think it was all him myself that changed X-Men so much from the original comic books. Fox films had a huge part in it. Infact, to me, Fox has yet to make ANY of their Marvel films “right”. And the only Fox Marvel film that did turn out even half way right, was X2, which singer directed.

Even their latest, the Wolverine movie, was WAAAYYYY off base, which singer had nothing to do with the directing or writing, other then ideas that were based on his original ones.

By: SlashBeast

SlashBeast — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:51:53 +0000

Brandon Routh wasn’t playing Clark Kent/Superman, he was playing Christopher Reeves playing Clark Kent/Superman.

By: Slumdog

Slumdog — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:17:13 +0000

matt keith, she told wolverine she killed him in one scene

By: Brian D

Brian D — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:09:26 +0000

I think I read somewhere that Fox left Singer hanging. They held off on green lighting a new movie or picking anyone to direct. He waited around, assuming they would give him the thumbs up to go ahead with part 3. But since they never did, he just went off to do Superman. So it wasn’t really his decision not to do X-3. I know he said he was a big Superman fan and always wanted to work on a movie version but you’d think he’d want to finish the X-trilogy, something he had already invested a lot of time and energy into. I think it boils down to money, Fox just wanted a way to make these movies a lot cheaper. The main cast were getting to be bigger stars with larger salaries. The solution was to kill off a lot of main characters, maybe that was something Singer wouldn’t have done.