Bryan Singer Hopes to ‘Fix’ Series With X-Men: Days of Future Past

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Bryan Singer Hopes to ‘Fix’ Series With <i>X-Men: Days of Future Past</i>  

bryan singer Bryan Singer has quite a challenge in front of him. Not only is he returning to the X-Men movie universe he helped to create, but he’s also dealing with a franchise that’s been damaged in the eyes of many by films like X-Men Origins: Wolverine and X-Men: The Last Strand. As he’s said plenty of time before, though, he’s not going to sweep anything under the rug, but instead use the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past to help clean up the mess.

When asked in a new interview with IGN.com whether the 2014 sequel would give him “the opportunity to revisit things that happened in the third film in terms of characters and endings that you might like to see changed,” Singer interpreted that as “fix shit,” explaining, “There’s going to be a little of that, a few things I can repair.”

He was tight-lipped about what those things might be, and about the potential return of James Marsden as Cyclops and Famke Janssen as Jean Grey, but he did shoot down rumors that Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage would be using motion-capture in his mysterious, and presumably villainous, role.

“He’s not going to be a CGI character,” he said. “He’ll be himself. Not that he’ll be playing Peter Dinklage, he’ll be playing this character. It’s not a shy character. He’s just such a phenomenal actor; I’m a huge fan of Peter’s and Game of Thrones. He was my first choice and I was really happy [about the casting]. It’s so funny to talk to him because he does that impeccable accent [on Game of Thrones] and then you talk to him and he’s this guy from New Jersey.”

X-Men: Days of Future Past also stars James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Nicholas Holt, Jennifer Lawrence, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman, Anna Paquin, Ellen Page and Shawn Ashmore. It opens July 18, 2014.

  • bfg666

    I understand where you’re coming from but without being bad per se, it was not as great as you make it out to be, and I especially didn’t find anything genius in it. Though it’s true that the pair of Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber worked really good together, there were some things that left a bad taste in the mouth. Among these was what I believe was the first retcon ever in cinema. People hate retcons in comics, why should they swallow them in a movie? For more detailed reasons to dislike this film, you should read my reply to Onslaught94 just above.

  • Hector

    But as a stand-alone film, I believe it is great. But if you count it as a prequel, then I see your hatred towards it. And on your comment about retcons, I believe this upcoming X-Men film will involve some sort of a retcon to clean up the mess X-Men: Last Stand did (it was a good film, but it sadly didnt tap the vast potential the film could’ve been). Maybe after X-Men: DoFP, they can change the space-time continuity, forget that TLS ever happended and just re-do its story on the next film after this one.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lee-Miller/100000566169277 Lee Miller

    The dude got shot in the head at the end of Origins, remember? So in X1, they didn’t know each other.

  • bfg666

    Please make sense if you want to argue. If one gets amnesia from being shot, it doesn’t affect the other.

  • bfg666

    If you think X3 was a good movie, it’s no surprise you find XO:W great. I don’t find satisfaction in sub-par standards.

  • DireLeon2010

    Please fix Rogue!

  • DireLeon2010

    And, thanks a lot Singer! For bailing out to do your Superman movie instead of making X3. Good-bye any chance of seeing a decent Phoenix Saga type film.

  • robert

    all x-men/wolverine movies so far have been completely inaccurate to comics and no continuity to their own script……and yet bryan singer is still here fml

  • robert

    bryan singer do us all a favor and leave our comic book movies the hell alone

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=740698966 William K Wallace

    How can you include that many stars, contracts and egos demanding X amount of screen time tell and story tell a story that doesn’t leave you feeling cheated like the last damn movie. Harry Potter had loads of talent, mostly the teachers, and it all went near to waste limited to a few brief scenes like Alan Rickman’s stirring performance over the death of Lily Potter. X-3 we barely got to see Angel, while Halle and Hugh clamored for more screen time to the detriment of the franchise, and the killing of or power loss of major characters. Way to shoot yourself in the foot not to mention the irritating departure from convention with team line up starting with the first movie.

  • Nathaniel Essex

    No it wasn’t. X-men was derailed even further by First Class. None of the X-men movies have been up to par with what any comic fan would expect from an X-men movie, especially not First Class. I want to forget that any of the X-men movies were made b/c from my perspective, I’ve yet to see an actual X-men movie. All that’s been delivered so far is X-meh.

  • http://www.facebook.com/dwaynebutcher68 Dwayne Butcher

    hope they replace that smob halle berry with a more component actress

  • Nathaniel Essex

    You obviously have no clue what you’re talking about when you say Singer didn’t screw up the X-men or Superman franchises. Even if you neglect the lack of respect for the source material for either franchise, he turned what should have been action-packed sci-fi/fantasy epics into dramas that just so happen to have superheroes involved, but weaker versions of the characters in poorly designed costumes in the case of X-men to somehow make them more realistic and “believable” (it’s supposed to be fantasy not duck dynasty) and a guy that ultimately fights a really big rock in the case of Superman. Basically, he took two of the most exciting and amazing properties DC or Marvel have to offer and made them both boring. And to make matters worse I will never get to see/enjoy an X-men film as long as Fox owns it b/c they have no idea wtf they are doing with it. I want to forgive Singer but there’s no way in hell I’m going to give him or Fox any more of my money for this movie or any other movie either party is involved in as long as X-men is owned by Fox.

  • Nathaniel Essex

    Not buying it and not buying a ticket to this piece of sh!t. He needs to fix the whole damned thing not just a few parts here and there. Everything in the X-men movies (besides maybe the mansion and correctly spelling the names of characters in the X-men universe) has been so far off that it’s insulting to even call it X-men.

  • BakerMan6

    Right, Storm was a dark skinned African woman, not a biracial woman like Halle Berry… They should cast Taral Hicks, who starred in “A Bronx Tale” to play Storm, she’d be a lot better. Or even Serena Williams… Either one of them would play the character of Storm better than Halle would

  • DireLeon2010

    Please….just leave it alone guys. Or get someone like Josh Whedon, who actually CARES about the continuity of a franchise to do the reboot!

  • jgyap68

    x men first class is great! better than bryan singers x men. why replace matthew vaughn who did a better job than b.singer? didn’t like superman returns, jack the giant killer.

  • Hmm

    The X-Men movies were damaged from the start. The only good thing about the movies were Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Kelsey Grammar & Ian McKellan.

    They butchered Sabretooth, Pyro, Blob, Rogue, Ice-Man, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Storm, basically the entire list of characters were a joke.

    X-Men: First Class was a good re-boot, it seems like they’re headed in the right direction. But Bryan Singer coming back to ‘Fix’ things is laughable at best.

  • Dicksaplenty Smith

    Don’t trust him!!!! He’s Mr. Sinister!

  • Drew G.

    The story you’re describing is Days of Future Present. Days of Future Past occurred about ten years earlier when an older version of Kitty Pryde traded bodies with her younger self in the past to save the life of Senator Kelly and change the future.

  • http://www.facebook.com/jehuty.ender Jehuty Grandius Ender

    I have money riding on this Singer!, you better deliver.

  • Mysterwright

    Ha! I was thinking the same thing! :D Arcade rules!

  • http://www.facebook.com/gabriel.ramnarine Gabriel Ramnarine

    He should’ve introduced cable in X-men first class at the end going back in time to give professor Xavier something . that way his disappearance ( untimely death) can be written back in , but they didn’t and doing it now may be a far reach .

  • fuckbsinger

    fuck bryan singer

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000479207415 Kenneth Cotton

    Did you really just call superman one of the most exciting and amazing properties dc owns???? if so please shoot yourself in the head superman’s always been boring by himself he has no real character or weaknesses and lex luthor is his number 1 villain explain why one of the top 3 strongest characters in superhero history can’t beat a skinny white guy????

  • http://www.facebook.com/outstandingpajamas Karolina Jones

    There was never any indication that Sabretooth didn’t know Wolverine in X1. Did he ever say that he didn’t know him? He had obviously already been through Magneto’s super mutant machine by then which advanced his mutation. But I don’t remember Sabretooth ever behaving like he didn’t know Wolverine. If anything, he had a (then unexplained) infatuation with him — toting around his dog tags, etc.

  • Glen

    Wasn’t one of Stryfe’s henchmen a Little person? I can see him being Puck, tied to wolverine but I can’t see them creating a known role for him an just having him be a little person in that role. I totally agree that X-men was ruined from the first movie. Rogue has none of Ms. Marvel’s powers and no connection to Mystique (who, god love Rebecca Romain but she is not a good enough actress to play Mystique.). The should have just reworked the orgiinal x-men into a modern day tale and had the new x-men in the second movie.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Deacon-Hagan/100002190854170 Deacon Hagan

    well if Dc keeps losing the Lawsuits…..

  • bfg666

    Infatuation?! Wanting to kill someone is a strange way of being infatuated! Anyway, it’s pretty obvious that these two are total strangers when they meet in X1. Since Logan’s memory was wiped, it’s no surprise on his part, but Victor should at least have some spark of recognition for his long-lost brother. And “Magneto’s super mutant machine” is a mutation-inducer for normal people. I don’t reckon it being ever said that it enhances already existing mutations. Believing it does is quite a stretch.

  • bfg666

    Umm, because he’s a goody-two-shoes who couldn’t resort to seriously injuring anyone and Lex is an absurdly rich criminal mastermind?

  • bfg666

    Jeez… Are we to expect Days of Future Future sometime?

  • bfg666

    Huh? Serena Williams does some acting now?

  • bfg666

    Umm, because Matthew Vaughn went to do a little something called Kick-Ass 2?

  • AL

    It’s brains VS Brawn. Superman is physically better and could drop Lex in a heartbeat in an actual fight. But superman also refuses to use his powers in full do to fear of accidentally hurting or killing someone. And Lex being a million times smarter than superman knows this.

  • SimpsonsGoldenAge

    As long as he’s not doing any shitty English accents

  • DP

    Darkseid? Doomsday killed superman. Lex is not his main villain. And against those villains he definitely has weaknesses and that is what the Superman fans are waiting for. Not Supe vs a Rock