Bryan Singer on Ultimate X-Men.

Re: Bryan Singer on Ultimate X-Men.

I said it. I didn't think the plots to the first and second X-Men movies were that strong. He's got to really surprise me to win me over... I'm not as critical as I was before just because I think Vaughan has taken the title so far from the movie that it would be impossible to ignore all this stuff and come up with something close to what he wanted to do. So, Singer'll be ok.
 
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icemastertron said:
Yeah, don't you remember that someone posted a long, long time ago that Singer had written something (cant remember something what it was) and that just how he had written the script was found horrible or something like that.
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If my memory isn't failing me, I heard it wasn't so much that Singer was turning in bad and horrible scripts, but that he was doing rewrites. Rewrites may occur in the case of bad writing but it doesn't automatically arise from such.
 
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Re-writes, perhaps, to fit with all of the writer's changes in the interim of his run?
 
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DIrishB said:
I still want to know when we'll be seeing the Apocalypse storyline touched on again. It was sort of a book-end type deal to Vaughan's run (beginning in The Tempest and touched upon minorly in Magnetic North), but I know we're going to see more of him and Sinister eventually, I just wonder how long we'll have to wait...hopefully not until UXM #100 or so, but that would be a nice centennial issue event, the unveiling of Ultimate Apocalypse (at least as far as a real, living, breathing, and dangerous enemy, and not only as possibly just the figment of some nut's imagination). Course a storyline focusing on Magneto is probably more likely, but who knows?
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Singer supposedly had plans for Apocalypse, but no one even knows if he actually wants to write UXM.
 
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ProjectX2 said:
Singer supposedly had plans for Apocalypse, but no one even knows if he actually wants to write UXM.
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He did? I thought he had plans for Magneto (though he could have easily had plans for both in his supposed 12 issue run). And its quite possible it'll be around #100 when Singer finally comes onto the title (if he ever does). Hopefully after Superman Returns wraps, but that'll be mid-way through Kirkman's run, won't it? I know he's only doing 9 issues (Kirkman), but with Superman Returns opening next year, I figure the shooting should be wrapping pretty soon. And with Kirkman's run not going to be finished until September or October of next year, that leaves me thinking Singer will get caught up in yet another project before he comes onto UXM. At this point I could care less, I'd much rather see Vaughan come back.
 
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DIrishB said:
He did? I thought he had plans for Magneto (though he could have easily had plans for both in his supposed 12 issue run). And its quite possible it'll be around #100 when Singer finally comes onto the title (if he ever does). Hopefully after Superman Returns wraps, but that'll be mid-way through Kirkman's run, won't it? I know he's only doing 9 issues (Kirkman), but with Superman Returns opening next year, I figure the shooting should be wrapping pretty soon. And with Kirkman's run not going to be finished until September or October of next year, that leaves me thinking Singer will get caught up in yet another project before he comes onto UXM. At this point I could care less, I'd much rather see Vaughan come back.
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Does anybody have an archive of official press releases and other such material that announced that Singer was going to be involved with UXM? It's been so long that this has been promised that I'm beginning to wonder whether it was just a bone thrown by Marvel editorial or it was actually formalized with a press release.

Also, has it been officially declared Singer is actually writing or is he just collaborating with his X-Men screenwriters (David Hayter, Michael Dougherty, Dan Harris) doing the actual scripting or is Marvel sidestepping the issue like they're doing with Stephen King's 'involvement' in the Dark Tower comics?
 
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ourchair said:
Does anybody have an archive of official press releases and other such material that announced that Singer was going to be involved with UXM? It's been so long that this has been promised that I'm beginning to wonder whether it was just a bone thrown by Marvel editorial or it was actually formalized with a press release.
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Well, the same thing has been going on with the UFF timeline answers...still hasn't happened yet though (but hopefully in President Thor).

Also, has it been officially declared Singer is actually writing or is he just collaborating with his X-Men screenwriters (David Hayter, Michael Dougherty, Dan Harris) doing the actual scripting or is Marvel sidestepping the issue like they're doing with Stephen King's 'involvement' in the Dark Tower comics?
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Thats changed depending on the report. Supposedly he's writing, or at least plotting or scripting it, then it was mentioned Hayter, etc would be doing the main amount of writing with him plotting it out, and then Vaughan was supposed to be co-writing or scripting/plotting for him, etc. In other words, no one knows what the hell is going on.
 
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I hope we get Orson Scott Card after Kirkman instead of Singer.
 
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In Wizard, Singer apparently has the first few issues scrippted, but they're waiting for Superman to wrap up before devoting time to it full time.
 
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Lynx said:
In Wizard, Singer apparently has the first few issues scrippted, but they're waiting for Superman to wrap up before devoting time to it full time.
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Yeah, thats what they've been saying, but as I mentioned before, Kirkman's run won't be over until almost the end of next year, so I'm wondering if Singer will take the initiative and still finish his part of the scripts for his 12-issue run (it was 12 issues right?) and give the artist time to draw the issues, then have Marvel just back-log them in a way until Kirman's run ends and they can begin releasing these. Also, I assume if thats the plan, no major changes will be taking place in Kirkman's stories to disrupt Singer's plans. I guess that means mostly character examination in Kirkman's arcs, which does seem to be a strong point of his anyway. What we know of "Date Night" seems to indicate that anyway.
 
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Lynx said:
In Wizard, Singer apparently has the first few issues scrippted,
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He's had the first few issues "Scripted" since dinosaurs roamed the earth. I don't believe them when they say that.
 
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icemastertron said:
He's had the first few issues "Scripted" since dinosaurs roamed the earth. I don't believe them when they say that.
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Maybe, but McNiven said he's well under way with the drawing stage apparently.

Also, Singer said it'd be a much darker story then either of the previous X-men movies. It'll be pushing for a Mature rating.
 
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Lynx said:
Maybe, but McNiven said he's well under way with the drawing stage apparently.

Also, Singer said it'd be a much darker story then either of the previous X-men movies. It'll be pushing for a Mature rating.
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McNiven is doing another arc in New Avengers, PLUS drawing the event with Mark Millar.
 
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icemastertron said:
So McNiven ain't doing nothing for UXM right now. It' be a while longer.
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Only going by what the man said. Don't shoot the messenger. :wink:
 
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icemastertron said:
So McNiven ain't doing nothing for UXM right now. It' be a while longer.
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Right. But I think its entirely possible for him to get started on this by early next summer, to be a few issues ahead of schedule by the time Singer's run will supposedly start. I mean he's not Hitch slow and detail-oriented, so he probably won't get behind. I hope. And if by some chance he's actually managed to get a bit of work in, all the better...less he'll have to do later.

Lynx said:
Also, Singer said it'd be a much darker story then either of the previous X-men movies. It'll be pushing for a Mature rating.
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Yeah, I remember him saying that way back when it was first announced (what, like 2 years ago) he'd be doing UXM. I look forward to that. He also mentioned it'd there'd be some major things going on, stuff he wouldn't even be able to accomplish in a movie due to budgetary contraints on the CGI, etc, which was one of the reasons he wanted to do this in the first place.
 
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Well, I look forward to the Mature rating, too. If it's something that was lost in Millar's run, it would be just that. Vaughan was certainly an all-ages writer, which I appreciated, but let's get dark again. Nice.

About the things happening in the comics that Singer couldn't accomplish in the movies... This can be a really cool thing or a really bad thing. He could mess a lot up with someone simply using their powers too much or too less... We'll see, though.
 
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