Why can't Brian (sp?) Singer direct the third X-Men movie?
Basically, Fox wasn't too happy Singer decided to take the director job for Warner Brothers' "Superman Returns" instead of immediately continuing on with X3. Singer also incidentally took most of X-MEN's production crew with him when he left. No way Fox is going to wait around for Singer to finish directing another superhero film for the competition when they already had a release date scheduled for X3 (May 2006. Which I believe is also "Superman Returns" release date or near it). Hence, Singer was cut out of the X-MEN franchise.
Although Fox probably should have worked with Singer and somehow negotiated a return (even if they had to push back X3's release date) since the X-MEN movies are what they are today thanks to him. I fear the replacements Fox are going to force upon the franchise now considering they seem adamant to squeeze X3 out by summer '06, there's still no news on a director or prod. crew and the time is rapidly dwindling away.
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Date: 2005-02-05 10:58 pm (UTC)Basically, Fox wasn't too happy Singer decided to take the director job for Warner Brothers' "Superman Returns" instead of immediately continuing on with X3. Singer also incidentally took most of X-MEN's production crew with him when he left. No way Fox is going to wait around for Singer to finish directing another superhero film for the competition when they already had a release date scheduled for X3 (May 2006. Which I believe is also "Superman Returns" release date or near it). Hence, Singer was cut out of the X-MEN franchise.
Although Fox probably should have worked with Singer and somehow negotiated a return (even if they had to push back X3's release date) since the X-MEN movies are what they are today thanks to him. I fear the replacements Fox are going to force upon the franchise now considering they seem adamant to squeeze X3 out by summer '06, there's still no news on a director or prod. crew and the time is rapidly dwindling away.