In an interview with this months issue of Empire Magazine, the Co-Chairmen and Co-CEO's talked about the various projects that 20th Century Fox are working on. The duo was quizzed on the negative fan reaction to Wolverine and talked more about their next mutant related movie, X-Men: First Class.
On The Negative Reactions To X-Men Origins: Wolverine:
Jim Gianopulos: "We're proud of the film and we're proud of Hugh Jackman's work in the film. I think one of the things that has always been a balancing act in the X-Men universe is we have this wonderful base of fans that are deeply immersed in the heritage of these characters, and then we have the civilians. And you have to make the property accessible to people who haven't experienced it. So you need to make certain adaptations, creatively, in order to open up the property a little bit. And that's where I think the fans feel that we missed a turn some place."
On What To Expect From X-Men: First Class:
Tom Rothman: "X-Men: First Class was Bryan Singer's idea and Matthew Vaughn has started directing it. Firstly, it's about the foundation of the friendship between Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr and then eventually the evolution of the split between Professor X and Magneto. In many ways it's bigger than we may have been before in the X-films because it's global - it goes all around the world in it's natural story evolution."
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