New Writer Attending X-Men: First Class
Fri, December 18, 2009 
Only a day after it was confirmed Bryan Singer was returning to the X-Men franchise with First Class, Heat Vision reports that Jamie Moss has been brought on board to write the newest draft. As most expected, the film will concern the exploits of Professor Xavier's original line-up as well as his friendship with Erik Lehnsherr and how their friendship went to the shitter. I’m guessing Singer and his team won’t be employing that awful CG-botox from X-Men: The Last Stand and Wolverine. Hiring younger actor who could pass off as Patrick Stewart and Sir Ian McKellen is the cheaper (and more logical) route.
As Singer explained the matter elsewhere to the trades:
"Whether it's 'Batman,' 'Lord of the Rings' or 'Star Trek,' if the characters are good, you want to see them on their journey even if you know their destiny. I put myself in the fan's position, and I think this story is something I would want to see, and so will they."
The problem, unlike Star Trek or Batman Begins, is that this is a prequel and not a reboot. Singer will be forced to adhere to continuity. That can be a bitch to pull off – especially when you’re trying to build suspense over what will happen next. Look at what happened with Terminator: Salvation.
When you think about it, the expectations for this are much higher as opposed to when Singer took over the Superman franchise. Go to the talk-back section of any website or forum and you’ll read countless "If only Bryan had done X-Men 3 instead…" statements from fanboys. The funny thing is it’s not out of left-field to suggest that maybe his version would have let fans down. I know Mike Dougherty has publicly revealed his ideas and we’ve heard rumblings of what Singer had in mind. But the fact remains that we’ll never truly know.
I say all of this because we’re now hearing from those same people "Singer is coming back. Everything will be great again!" Eh, not necessarily. He’s a filmmaker who’s yet to disappoint me. But fans had better keep their expectations within reality.
Reader Comments (3)
You seem to love Singer's genre films so I know you aren't going to agree with me Jamie but I'm not interested in another action movie by Singer and I think that he is only doing this because Superman Returns failed and that Tom Cruise Nazi movie wasn't the biggest hit in the universe...even if it did make more than people were expecting, it still didn't hit the 100mil mark.
I don't give two shits about First Class either. Or any of the other X-Men prequels, spin-offs, whatever.
But I don't think he's returning because for the reasons you gave. I get what you're saying though. He's already filled up in the genre stuff with his Battlestar Galactica reboot for Universal, Jack the Giant Killer (Uh...OK...Yeah...) and the Excalibur remake with WB.
I agree about the fanboy expectations. It's like they are mindwiped every summer and forget the outrageous statements they made previously. "There's no way Raimi will frack this up."-preSpidey 3 comments.
I hope Singer will be able to pull this off, cause he's proven he can(X2), but he doesn't have the same team behind him this time and it's an established continuity so things will be different. Hopefully, even better.