10 Directors Who Should Helm The X-Men Reboot

10. Duncan Jones

Since the release of Moon back in 2009 Duncan Jones has become an in-demand director, making Source Code and was linked to Man of Steel before making Warcraft. Moon was a terrific debut, a deliberate throwback to sci-fi films from the '70s that aimed to thoughtful rather than just be about grand spectacle - not that it was without big special effects moments, using traditional model work over CGI.

Both his sci-fi films were character driven and ambitious, characteristics that any potential X-Men reboot. The best X-Men movies are focused on the character relationships and some of the most intense moments are not necessarily the action ones. Jones could match the best emotional moments that Bryan Singer, Matthew Vaughn and James Mangold were able to provide.

Jones' films have been on the serious and Warcraft was his first skirmish into a more a light-hearted storytelling, an approach that some X-Men fans have been calling. Even though Warcraft was a hot mess of a film, requiring the Chinese market to make it profitable there were virtues to the film, namely showing the Orcs in a complicated light and the motion capture. That was at least a useful experience to show the different ideologies within the X-Men universe and mutant super powers.

Jones' next film is a sci-fi thriller for Netflix but film fans would be want to see him direct another major franchise.