Bryan Singer Calls X-Men Universe "More Serious" Than Other Marvel Films

Speaking in a newly-released interview, X-Men: Days of Future Past director Bryan Singer suggested that the X-Men films are more serious in tone than the rest of the Marvel Universe, giving them a unique feel that means he doesn't feel he has to compete with Marvel Studios--and that he really can't anyway. "You can never compete with that," Singer told SFX in the issue on stands now. "Tonally it's a very different experience, as the X-Men movies operate on very specific themes and it's a much more serious kind of universe, as the [Marvel Cinematic Universe] is not so serious. It's got its own emotional points and the characters are obviously amazing." Interestingly, the characterization of Marvel's Universe as comparably light and "not so serious" isn't a new thing. Similar terminology popped up in a recent interview with Man of Steel writer David S. Goyer, who said that Christopher Nolan's comic book movies were more serious than The Avengers franchise. Critics and some fans, meanwhile, have argued that Man of Steel and other superhero films lose something special when they go too "realistic" or serious.