films but left in order to direct Superman Returns
, has made his return to the mighty mutants as producer of X-Men: First Class. At one time he was up to direct the film, but his schedule was simply too heavy and there was no way he could get out of his previous obligations. Those same issues turned up again as Singer was asked about the prospects of him directing the sequel to X-Men Origins: Wolverine...
Singer:"It's not what I'm going to do right now. The next project for me next year, in London, is Jack the Giant Killer. That is set in the 1300s, and it's very fun. It will be a big movie."
It also looks like it was true that Fox made a play to get Taylor Lautner on the team as well, but as you can imagine the teeny bopper heartthrob has a lot on his plate right now...
Singer: I wanted Taylor [Lautner] to do it, I really did," Singer said in an exclusive interview. "He's doing a movie in Pittsburgh called Abduction, and then he's got the next Twilight movie. We talked about it a lot—he is a friend—and I really wanted to make it work. It just doesn't look like it's possible to do it."
Singer also makes a passing reference to Meagan Good(Waist Deep
) as a possibility for a role as well. Since there are maybe...3 African-American female mutants running around the Marvel Universe I'm going to assume she's a young Storm.
