Posted on Friday, April 22nd, 2011 by Angie Han
A little while back, Star Trek: The Next Generation actor and director Jonathan Frakes revealed that director Bryan Singer (X-Men) once had a pitch for a Star Trek television show that never came to fruition. Singer is a well-known Trek fan, and thanks to some string-pulling by X-Men and Star Trek star Patrick Stewart, has even appeared in an uncredited role on Star Trek: Nemesis.
Recently, more details have come to light about Singer’s failed Star Trek proposal. Read on after the jump to fantasize about what could’ve been.
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Grossing almost $400 million at the worldwide box office is rarely considered a failure. Unless, of course, you’re talking about a Superman movie. Bryan Singer‘s 2006 Superman Returns was meant to reboot the Man of Steel much like Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins did for the Caped Crusader. However, with its lack of action and unusual tweaking of the Superman mythology, the film was largely dismissed by its core fan base and ended up struggling to make $200 million domestically. Warner Bros. is now rebooting the franchise again with Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel and that’s as a good a reason as any for Singer to come out and finally admit his take on the material had some major issues. Read what he had to say after the jump. Read More »
Bryan Singer hasn’t made a movie since the 2008 film Valkyrie, but he’s finally rolling now on Jack the Giant Killer. The film stars Nicholas Hoult (A Single Man, X-Men: First Class) as the title character, and features support from Eleanor Tomlinson as a kidnapped princess and Ewan McGregor, Eddie Marsan, Stanley Tucci, Ian McShane, and Bill Nighy as a variety of characters in the film’s fantasy/medieval world.
Now the first spy set photos are online, and they show Ewan McGregor and Eddie Marsan in costume as members of the King’s elite guard. These costumes should give you an idea of what Bryan Singer is going for with the film’s overall look; check out pics after the break. Read More »
Usually, talking about making sequels to a film that’s still about two months from release would constitute extreme over-confidence. But, usually, those movies aren’t part of the X-Men franchise, a tried and true property that’s already had four successful films with more currently in development. The latest one, X-Men: First Class, is scheduled for release on June 3 and will serve as a prequel to all of those other films, telling the story of two very important mutants – Professor X (James McAvoy) and Magneto (Michael Fassbender) – as they begin to form their opinions, and factions, in the 1960s. Director Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass) and producer Bryan Singer (X-Men) sat down with Total Film and once again threw around some ideas for potential sequel jump off points. Read what they had to say after the jump. Read More »
There are a few little X-Men tidbits making the rounds today, thanks to a new issue of Empire that features X-Men: First Class on the cover and comments from producer Lauren Shuler-Donner within. Check out the cover shots below — they have some images that might look a bit familiar — and read comments from Lauren Shuler-Donner about new developments in the X-Men film world, including how we might see two parallel series over the next few years. Read More »
If you’re going to make a movie about a young man fighting giants, he’s got to have a pretty good reason to do so. Enter Eleanor Tomlinson. She’s just been cast as Isabella, the princess that Nicholas Hoult‘s Jack will fight for in Bryan Singer‘s upcoming big budget, 3D re-imagining of Jack and the Beanstalk called Jack the Giant Killer. This will be Tomlinson’s biggest role to date, though in the past she’s played small parts in The Illusionist and Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. Read more after the break. Read More »
One of the biggest films currently casting, not based on a comic book, is Bryan Singer‘s 3D action epic Jack the Giant Killer. We already knew that Nicholas Hoult (About A Boy) is set to star as the title character in this adult retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk and that he’ll go up against giants, of course, as well as an evil king played by Stanley Tucci. The latest addition to the cast, which also includes Bill Nighy, is Ewan McGregor who’ll most likely play the King’s head of security. Jack the Giant Killer will begin shooting in March. Read more after the jump. Read More »
It’s fitting that after two less-than-stellar X-Men movies, the man who launched the franchise is once again the mouthpiece. Bryan Singer, the director of the first two X-Men films, is a producer on the upcoming X-Men: First Class and has emerged as sort of the behind-the-scenes face of the big screen X-Men. As a follow-up to the first trailer for First Class, which is directed by Matthew Vaughn, Singer spoke to the Los Angeles Times Hero Complex about some of the characters we finally saw in the trailer and Blastr was quick to point out that there is plenty of room for interpretation between the lines of Singer’s quotes. Read what he said after the jump. Read More »
