Bryan Singer Talks X-Men: Franchise And More

Yesterday at the Fantasia International Film Festival, director and producer Bryan Singer attended the Rated X: An Evening with Bryan Singer panel to talk about the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past, but also previous X-Men, Man of Steel and Star Trek.

About the previous X-Men movies, Singer said that he prepared for the first movie by watching all the X-Men episodes from the 1990’s animation series. Singer continued by saying that actor Russell Crowe was keen on playing Wolverine, but didn’t get the role  because he wanted to play Wolverine as a bald man.

Jumping X2 and moving to Last Stand, Singer said that hat he liked that Brett Ratner cast Ellen Page for the role of Kitty Pryde, aka Shadowcat, but would have preferred if Cyclops was still alive. Regarding Professor X sudden resurrection, Singer explains that they “Could justify bringing Xavier back because he transferred his consciousness and could possibly construct a body around that consciousness.”

Moving on to Days of Future Past, Singer restated that the movie will take place ten years after The Last Stand, but the majority of the film will take place in 1973, the cast of First Class,   “You find the characters in very different places than you saw them in First Class.” Singer confirmed that actor Josh Helman will play a young William Stryker and that although Quicksilver is in the movie, Scarlet Witch isn't.

Before ending the X-Men part, Singer said that the movie is being shot in 3D, so there won’t be a 3D conversion later on.

When asked about Man of Steel, he said that it was “a total re-conception of the Richard Donner movies” and that Henry Cavill was a charming Superman. Singer then said that if he could have done a sequel to his Superman Returns, it would also have had an alien threat.

About Jack The Giant Slayer, Singer said that he wasn’t “creatively compromised”, but that the studio didn’t made a great job of distributing it. 

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