X-Men: The Last Stand

Bryan Singer may be coming back to the genre he helped kicked off. At the Pusan International Film Festival in South Korea, the X-Men director confirmed that he has had talks with 20th Century Fox about coming back to the series. “I’m still looking to possibly returning to the X-Men franchise. I’ve been talking to Fox about it,” Singer said.
Rumors of Singer’s looming attachment to either the youthful X-spin-off First Class or a sequel to X-Men Origins: Wolverine has been talked about and obsessed over for much of the summer. The director also went on to say that he loves Hugh Jackman and the X-cast. Could Singer be coming back for a X-Men 4?
According to Empire, producer Lauren Shuler Donner recently said that an X-Men 4 was a distinct possibility pending Singer’s attachment.
Singer left the X-Men series to direct Superman Returns which left X-Men: The Last Stand »

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Brett Ratner is a real man's man. King of the castle. Pure film gold. Or so he thinks. To the movie die hards, he's "that turd who fucked up the X-Men". To the rest of us, he's just a turd in general. Anyway, that's not what this post is about. No sir. En a recent talk with StarPulse about his various movies over the years, the Ratman defended X-Men: The Last Stand from the major fan backlash that the otherwise commercially succesfull film endured. When the Rat was asked if the comic book demographic were the hardest group to please, he had this to say: "Absolutely. Bryan Singer gave me the best advice when I was doing "X-Men 3," Bryan is a really good friend of mine. Bryan said, "Whatever you do, do not read the Internet." I'm like, "Why?" He's like, "First of all, they hated on me the whole »
- Kasper

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…But not to us unfortunately! Sir Ian McKellen, Master of Magnetism and member of The Council of Elrond spoke to the lucky folks at Empire recently about the roles pertaining to my two geeky references – Magneto and Gandalf (the Grey).
First talking about The Hobbit, McKellen told the online mag that scripts would be handed out very soon, leading to more casting news from the film:

“The scripts for the two films will be delivered very soon,” he revealed. “Then they’ll be budgeted, and then they’ll be cast. And they’ll be going when they’ve always said they would be, which is next spring – March or April. Guillermo even told me at one point, ‘We’re going to film for 383 days.’ He’s got that artistic autism! Jackson’s the same; they’re very, very, very alike. They also very different, but they’ve so much in common. »
- Craig Sharp

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