At this point, it’s looking like the odds of filmmaker Bryan Singer getting back on track in time to start directing X-Men: Apocalypse are pretty small.20th Century Fox, fresh off a hit with The Wolverine, want to capitalize on the popularity of the X-Men franchise so badly that they had already greenlit the new movie and announced the title before X-Men: Days of Future Past was even finished being edited. Now that Days of Future Past isn’t far off, though, one has to wonder how long they’ll wait for its director — Singer — to figure out whether a potentially damaging civil suit filed against him this week for alleged sexual abuse of a minor in the 1990s will prevent him from taking a high-visibility job like directing a major superhero tentpole.While no director had yet been announced for X-Men: Apocalypse, it was widely assumed that the job was Singer’s (who also directed X-Men and X2: X-Men United) to decline. If he can’t or won’t take it, it may be back to the drawing board for a studio that already has a release date in place.Meanwhile, X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn has not only got a full plate of other projects, but has commented in the past that sequels don’t interest him much anyway. Jeff Wadlow, expected to direct the X-Force spinoff, just inked a deal to take over He-Man and the Masters of the Universe and so is presumably off the table for a while.That means the obvious choices are all out of the picture, leaving Fox with a rather tricky question: how do you get a film in production soon, which is expected to be in theaters in 2016…if there’s no director, and all the candidates who could presumably just pick up the ball and run with it are indisposed?Well, we’ve got some ideas for directors who could step up and make it work…Note: A previous version of this story misidentified Pete Travis as Dredd writer Alex Garland. Mostly because I’m a moron.
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