This from /Film...
After some wrangling, Warner Bros. and Legendary have secured the rights to remake John Boorman’s Excalibur with Singer linked as producer and possible director. A curious move as the source material, even if you count that as Malory and not just the Arthurian myths in essence, is definitely in the public domain. What is it about Boorman’s version that they wanted to secure? Maybe it’s just a preemptive move to totally lock out any potential of a lawsuit? Gotta love megabudget filmmaking and it’s wheelbarrows of dollarcrats.
The same story tells us that “Singer has been flirting with directing” the X-Men: First Class side-quel. A little surprising, perhaps, that of the in-development X-pictures it is this one and not the next Wolverine movie he’s being linked with, not least because his regular collaborator Christopher McQuarrie has set about scripting that one.
None of First Class, Excalibur or Battlestar Galactica seems likely to be Singer’s next directing project however, with the same Variety story suggesting that he’s currently gearing up to move on Jack the Giant Killer. They describe the story as being about “a young farmer who leads an expedition into the land of the giants to recover a kidnapped princess”.