X-MEN FIRST CLASS EXCLUSIVE: Bryan Singer on the Xavier/Magneto Relationship

I hate Bryan Singer with a passion after the first two movies and Superman Returns, but this is a great interview...nice one ED! :) Fingers crossed that it was Matthew Vaughn who made the big decisions with X-Men: First Class.

Thanks, guys. I actually love the first two X-Men films. I wasn't that in to First Class until I saw the trailer, and now I'm REALLY curious about it.

I wanna start off by saying, I'm a Singer hater and Ratner hater. That being said, here's a thought. Maybe it's a good thing they're ignoring their own universe. Most of it was crap to begin with and if that is the case then Matthew Vaughn is pretty much just making his own X-Men movie with his own take of the universe. Is that really a bad thing? Aside from the fact that it was rushed and the Cat-Beast we're getting (which I'm not even that upset about, truth be told) there's not much I don't like about this movie so far (I'm also bearing in mind that trailers can and have been misleading). On top of that we're also getting a Wolverine movie that's separate from all other X-Men movies (including Borigins!), with a badass director at the helm of the project. I'm not saying Fox is shaping up, I'm not even saying they know what they're doing. What I am saying is I'd rather have this then the crap they've been putting out post-X2.

Editorial you did???

Dunno, don't think so? Been busy though this past week, link bro?

Dude the trailer looked horrible!!!

Seriously, it did lol.

ED @ If they was ignoring the movies, why have they got clips of previous X-Men movies in that trailer lol?

And if they wanted to REBOOT this, best way would have been with the whole cast of FIRST CLASS not just a thundercat [frick]ed up version of Beast lol.

Its like having an AVENGERS film with just IRON MAN in it and a handful of second and third stringers.

F'ing Fox! : P

Great job Ed. I really like Singer's movies(Valkrie being the exception) and hope Jack The Giant Killer is great too.

Josh, you might as well be talking to the wall. To Lee a good movie is one that follows the comics..if it doesn't, it's bad. No grey area. Acting , direction, script..not an issue.

The first 2 x-men movies weren't that bad at all(aside from Sabretooth). Singer ruined Superman for us all for years but I'm excited to see this movie after seeing the trailer. Continuity doesn't matter as much to me when it comes to this franchise. I'm willing to bet this movie is the summer sleeper. Great actors, great fx, cool characters, Bacon, solid director, and an idiot producer...sounds like a decent movie to me.

First Class is not ignoring the other X-movies. It is simply not sticking to all the events of Last Stand and Wolverine. It is a prequel, and it is going to be in line with X1 and X2, which is why they showed clips of Stewart and McKellen in the trailer.

And going by the way fans bash what happened in Last Stand and Wolverine, you would think that they wouldn't mind if First Class ignored some things that happened in each. But no, they still complain that it's not following the continuities of those two movies, continuities they openly hate. Mind-bottling, really.

Yeah @ ROR coz Borigins was so good! : p


TEA @ Bwahahhahahha LOVE that pic man! ; D

I used to think the first two was good... not anymore, the more Fox make these movies, the more they ruin the first two!

I mean, you could have believed ANGEL was an original X-MEN etc but now, nope, they [frick]ed that up with X3 and wtf WHITE QUEEN is her own Mother, great thinking lol.

Reilly @ Cool! :)

One name comes to mind Dougray Scott, if he would have been able to play Wolverine would we have had any interest after the first movie. The critics and many movie goers agreed on the first two movies which were done very well principally by two people Bryan Singer and Hugh Jackman. It is also Singer's fault for the third movie by LEAVING and many in the fan base going huh? Singer is trying to make amends by what I think is the movie he first wanted to make. Fox would have never made the first movie without Wolverine or Xavier or the number one X-Men villian, Magneto. Now I love all the trash talk here but Fox should get it most of all. This is why Marvel and Disney need to grow a set of BALLS and get the characters back!!!

^balls don't matter, Fox and Sony have the rights to alot of their superheroes, it's up to Fox and Sony to sell them, not up to Marvel to buy them.

"In my mind, I think they're pretty much ignoring the first three movies. I really do think this is a reboot and that as the saga continues, it will be from the point of where First Class ends."

I've been saying that since day one. ;-)

Lee@, they are showing some clips from the prior films as a feeble attempt try to show to the fans that they are doing a prequel and show continuity, even though they have shown they have blown the continuity out of the water.

If Marvels two movies this summer do well along with their other related entertainment and merchandise Marvel/Disney will be the only ones able to buy them. Buy them before Sony, Fox and Lionsgate milk them dry and no movie fan or gamer will give a hoot. Now or very soon would be best. So balls do matter and so does money. Money talks and Disney has it, Fox, Sony and Lionsgate will listen and maybe will sell. Yeah no shit it does take a buyer and seller! lol

Even Disney doesn't have extra cash to buy back rights to Spider man and the X-men. Have to be around a couple billion and they only payed 4 for all of Marvel.

Lee, Wolverine is an example of a film that failed on both counts(even though I did still kinda like it:), but the first 2 X movies did not. I just can't take the opinion of a guy that says he no longer likes a movie because other movies turned him off them seriously I'm sorry!

@InTylerWeTrust- THANK YOU!! It gets a little annoying seeing so many people here thinking (or hoping) that Fox will one day let go one of their main cash cows. People don't think about how business works. There is a reason Fox is such a movie powerhouse and has been for several decades. Wether First Class will be good or bad, the X-men and their vast array of characters are going no where. The Fox executives are way too smart to let that happen.

And what happened to the love for X-2?? Wasn't it once considered the new crown jewel of comic book movies? A movie far superior than it's predecessor? I swear fanboys have short memories. SMDH