12 Biggest Missed Opportunities In Comic Book Movie History
10. Bryan Singer Leaving X-Men: The Last Stand To Do Superman Returns
As can be seen by his triumphant return to the directors chair in X-Men Days of Future Past, Bryan Singers X2 was not a fluke, and we are finally getting to see how Singer's X-trilogy may have progressed had he not ditched the Mutants for a crack at Supes. As much as DoFP rights some of the wrongs wrought by Ratner's misfiring Last Stand, it ironically cant erase the film from the timeline, nor can it spare us Singers snorefest Superman Returns. Obviously DoFP isn't the film we would have received in lieu of Ratner's Last Stand so a question mark remains as to whether Singers full stop on the initial X trilogy would have been more satisfying than Ratners, though the evidence suggests it would have. Presuming it wouldn't have been bogged down in the middle by a sub-plot involving Genoshan real estate. As with Matthew Vaughan's First Class (who vacated the chair after Singer) we were at least given another chance to see a new X-film by Singer, with the damage wrought by Last Stand and later X-Men Origins: Wolverine thankfully not proving terminal. Both the subsequent films demonstrate (if we needed any further demonstration) that somewhere in the alternative history multiverse exists a critically acclaimed fan-serving X-Men 3, which doesnt include the line Im the Juggernaut B!tch!
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