10 Directors Who Should Helm The X-Men Reboot
5. J. A. Bayona
Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona, usually known as J. A. Bayona has an impressive filmography, making The Orphanage, The Impossible and the upcoming A Monster Calls. His reputation has led him to be linked to big projects like The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and the World War Z sequel and currently attached to the Jurassic World sequel. However, working on the X-Men would be better suited to Bayona's talents.
As a director Bayona has focused on personal, emotional films, The Orphanage and A Monster Calls centred on the theme of lost. Whilst Bayona has a good dramatic grounding it's his work on The Impossible that makes him a great candidate for the X-Men, showing the Spaniard was able to the story of the family trying to reunite after being separated by disaster and showing the impact of the 2004 Tsunami in Thailand.
Any director of the X-Men would need balance the personal stories of the heroes and villains and the show the wider universe.
His work on A Monster Calls (which is currently been praised on the festival circuit) shows that Bayona can handle CGI sequences, bringing to live a huge tree monster that boomed and crashed around everywhere it went. He could certainly show a large amount of destruction a mutant fight can bring to a city.