X-Men: Days of Future Past Director on Why It's Not Weird

While most fans have been excited to get X-Men and X2: X-Men United director Bryan Singer back in the director's chair for X-Men: Days of Future Past, some have expressed reservations. After all, who says that things will be the same after all this time? And it's not even like X-Men: First Class was, strictly speaking, the same universe Singer gave birth to fifteen years ago. Singer acknowledged these issues and more in a new interview with Crave Online, but said that in spite of not having been the director, his involvement with X-Men: First Class was significant enough that he wasn't phased by the changes. "It would be [weird] if I didn't write the story for X-Men: First Class," Singer said. "I wrote the story to that movie and I produced it and I was instrumental in the casting, in design and involved in the post-production, so I was part of that movie. I initiated that movie and originated it so in that way, and worked with Matthew and I was the one who actually hired Matthew so in a way I feel like I'm not completely entering someone else's franchise. I'm entering one that he executed wonderfully, but one that I was also part of." He added, "It would be different if I was doing a sequel to Star Trek where somebody else cast everybody, somebody else designed it, somebody else created a look and a mood and a story and then I'm just coming in, which can be done. James Cameron did it beautifully with [his sequel to] Alien but it's just a different thing. I'm returning to my [world]. The only thing that will be a unique and exciting thing for me is I get to finally direct Jennifer Lawrence. I've already directed Nicholas Hoult, but Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy, who are phenomenal actors, and I get to work with them as a director as opposed to producer."