Bryan Singer on potential X-Men: First Class sequels.

X-MEN: FIRST CLASS producer Bryan Singer recently spoke with 24 Frames about the X-Men prequel, and looked towards the future with sequel ideas. The first film, directed by Matthew Vaughn, follows the first class of mutants who band together to stop Armageddon during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

“I don’t know if every movie has to be a history lesson. But there’s a lot of history to cover.” says Singer. “If we sequelized this, it could inhabit a whole world of the 20th century. When [‘First Class’] happened, Kennedy had not been assassinated and the Vietnam War hadn’t happened yet.”

“You don’t need to hit people over the head with them in every movie or every scene,” he said. “But having them at the core of the conflict is what I think makes it all work.”

Something that wasn’t touched upon in ‘First Class’ was the civil rights movement, an era Singer may like to visit in potential sequels.

“What’s really interesting about the ’60s setting is the civil rights movement,” he said. “What’s fascinating about [Magneto and Xavier] is that they’re really the Malcolm X and Martin Luther King of comic mythology.”

5 thoughts on “Bryan Singer on potential X-Men: First Class sequels.”

That sounds okay, and First Class success will likely have 20th Century Fox bankroll more X-Men Movies, but I really want them to start doing X-Men 4.

Agreed. X-men 4 and X-men 5 is what everyone really wants. First Class was great, but it doesn’t have the same appeal because we don’t love the characters the same way.

Also i REALLLLLLY hope they don’t think that every movie from now on has to be a history lesson. I want to see what happens to the X-men, I already know what happened to the US (and history/politics can get boring easily!) I fear that the histories will begin to limit the movies.

Most of all, for x-men 4 and 5 i REALLLY hope they don’t try and follow the same pattern… I love x-men more than anything, but if x4 is about the x-men vs. 9/11 and X5 is the war on Iraq, I will not see them.

What if, they write the story of XFC sequel then leave it all behind and start the X4.

I don’t see any reason why X-men first class sequels and further sequels to the original films can’t be made at the same time tbh. They could even refer to each other (e.g. have mr sinister hinted at in X-men first class 2, and then have him appear as the main villain in x4).