Director Bryan Singer, after a couple of misfire action flicks, launched a career of brilliance with The Usual Suspects (ranked by IMDB as the 25th greatest film of all time) which led to a job on the first two X-Men films. They remain the best in the series as he left after that and neither Brett Ratner or Gavin Hood could pick up the pieces. A glimmer of light was shown in the Singer produced and Matthew Vaughn directed First Class and I guess James Mangold did the best he could with the stale The Wolverine. However, the series should be back to its full glory next year when Singer returns to directing the series, after going off to do the iffy Superman Returns and Jack the Giant Slayer as well as the brilliant Valkyrie, with Days of Future Past. But Singer could be here to stay.
He confirmed on twitter that X-Men: Apocalypse was to arrive in 2016. Besides the fact that it’ll feature the title characters the X-Men and Apocalypse, we can’t tell to much about the plot with our current knowledge. I not well versed in recent Marvel Comics runs but the internet’s main suggestion seems to be The Age of Apocalypse. We’re not sure how this’ll run with the new James Mangold/Hugh Jackman Wolverine film but Marvel Disney are having good success with two releases every year. Another project Apocalypse could tie into is Josh Trank’s 2015 reboot of The Fantastic Four who we presumed would be part of Singer’s “marvel mash-up” project.
We move onto San Andreas. As well as being a fault, it’s the new action disaster movie set to star Dwayne Johnson as a rescue helicopter pilot separated from his daughter as a huge earthquake strikes California. Journey 2 director Brad Peyton is currently set to direct but the 2014 scheduled film has had to slip into the ever changing, and busy, 2015 slot but I don’t think it’ll cope and make a great box office against the giants coming our way in two years time.
Another Peyton, this time a first name not a surname, is the subject of this article. It’s Peyton Reed, director of The Break-Up and Yes Man. His next project could be both biopic and Dark Horse comic book adaptation The Fifth Beetle. It’s the story of Brian Epstein, the man behind the decade defining band The Beetles who rose to international fame and legend while Epstein was left behind. The reason the film has taken so long to get out of development was because of the tricky business of claiming the rights to the songs but they’re going to have a even bigger task of casting the legendary members: John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney.
X-Men: Days of Future Past – May 22nd 2014
X-Men: Apocalypse – 2016
The Wolverine 2 – 2016
The Fantastic Four – June 19th 2015
San Andreas – 2015
The Fifth Beetle – 2015
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