Attention X-Fans: It looks like Bryan Singer won't be making a triumphant return to the director's chair for "X-Men: First Class" after all.
According to Deadline.com, the director of "X-Men" and "X2: X-Men United" will move from director to producer on the upcoming 20th Century Fox film, which takes the X-Men universe back to the early days of Professor Charles Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. The report indicates that the move was made in order to put the film on the fast track, since Singer is currently committed to direct Warner Bros.' "Jack the Giant Killer" in the near future.
That's not the only silver lining for fans of the X-Men movie universe Singer helped create, as the report also mentions that the film is being envisioned as the first part of a trilogy, with a potential 2011 release.
Despite recent interviews in which Singer seemed to be fully on board "X-Men: First Class," his potential exit from the project was rumored earlier this week and now appears to be confirmed — though it won't be anything near a complete departure from the film.
The filmmaker will allegedly join producers Lauren Shuler Donner and Simon Kinberg in shepherding a script by Jamie Moss that focuses on the early years of the telepathic mutant Charles Xavier and the magnetism-manipulating Erik Lehnsherr (a.k.a. Magneto). There is no director for the project at this point, though various reports have indicated that the studio has met with several comics-savvy filmmakers.
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