It occurred to me while reading the recent Empire article that the X-Men universe will never concede itself to the reboot syndrome simply because of the sheer number of stories that can be told; they can go on indefatigably, one (or more) for each character, as long as audience attention is elastic and...

Fantasy usually attracts people whose imaginations are way more interesting than real life. Far from being eccentric, there is virtue in the way they spin together entire worlds out of pure ideas. It’s a quality that The Hobbit director Guillermo del Toro has in abundance, which Ian McKellen discussed...

If comic book films are going to continue to be recycled and reimagined, they must be less reverential, more innovative, more relevant; Batman Begins signaled a shift in this direction. James McTeigue (V for Vendetta, the upcoming Ninja Assassins), who is rumored to be under consideration to direct the...

Of all the possible X-Men-related movies that FOX is currently looking at right now, from Ryan Reynolds in a “Deadpool” spin-off movie, an “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” sequel that would take Wolvie to Japan, and a “X-Men: First Class” (aka “X-Men: 90210″)...

Bryan Singer kinda wishes he had stayed onboard the X-Men train and directed the third installment of the trilogy, 2006’s “X-Men: The Last Stand”, which went to the much-maligned Brett Ratner after Singer jumped ship to direct the underperforming “Superman Returns”. I happened...

You can’t keep them muties down, what with their healing factors, laser beams out of eyes, and TK’ing and such. During an appearance on Fox movie Channel’s Life after Film School (I haven’t a clue what that is, but apparently it’s some kind of TV show), “X-Men”...

Haven’t heard a lot about the “X-Men” spin-off movie about Magneto for a while, which is probably on purpose. The Powers That Be are probably waiting to see if the Wolverine spin-off sells before they start on the Magneto version, and all this pre-production work on the movie, such...

David S. Goyer is one busy man. No, let me rephrase that: I don’t know how anyone can work as hard or on as many projects at once the way David Goyer does. I swear there must be two or three Davids out there running around scripting “Magneto” and “Jumper” and scouting locations...

You can’t keep the Master of Magnetism down, as the X-Men certainly found out in the comic books and in the movies, as Magneto (played in the film by Ian McKellen) kept coming back again and again. Producer Avi Arad recently talked with MTV about the upcoming “Magneto” spin-off movie,...