Gossip Girl Creator Is Writing New X-Men Movie

Josh Schwartz, the creator of Gossip Girl, Chuck, and The O.C., let it slip that he's currently working on the screenplay for the next X-Men film, a prequel/spin-off of sorts. The film will center on the other teenage characters attending the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning.

"I'm very well aware that I'll be bludgeoned by purists, but I love its mythology, and it comes with a pretty hefty paycheck," Schwartz told Black Book Magazine. "It's not like I'm adding new characters like Toaster Head, or anything like that. The Hulk looks like it's going to be terrible. And why does he look like he's fighting against the monster from Cloverfield? I mean, with Transformers, it's not like fans were going to come back saying, 'You used the wrong car.' This, however, is a different story."

Schwartz also admits that hack director Brett Ratner "didn't have a lot of credibility going in to the third X-Men movie," (is this supposed to be to his defense?) and that "Bryan Singer got a free pass on Superman Returns because of his work on X-Men."

But the question is: Can the guy who created Gossip Girl write a good superhero movie?