Tagged: X-Men First Class

First Class, six degrees…

When he’s not hocking natural products for acne on an infomercial, Kevin Bacon still pops up as an actor once in a while; the rumor mill is hot right now that the notoriously tight-wadded Marvel Studios (Fox is releasing) is allowing X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn pursue Kevin Bacon for a super-villain role in the flick.

While lately Bacon’s best-known for the cheesy Hollywood name-association game built around the once-prolific actor, Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, the former star of Footloose is reportedly willing to deal himself into the X-franchise.

No word on which villain he’s play, although considering they have Emma Frost in this story, Bacon might be a nice fit for Sebastian Shaw of the Hellfire Club. Time will tell.

Singer considering X-Men First Class and X-Men 4

Director Bryan Singer is rolling in rich projects right now; he’s been attached in the Hollywood rumor mill to the movies Jack the Giant Killer and a big-screen version of Battlestar Galactica, but his next project appears to be X-Men: First Class, a reboot of the Marvel mutant he launched and then abandoned to try his hand at a Superman movie.

The result, of course, was not a tuxedo-inspiring piece of cinema, but two subpar superhero flicks, as Superman Returns was disappointing, and the non-Singer X-3: The Last Stand was similarly uninspiring. Even last year’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine, failed to live up to expectations.

At one time, Singer’s return to the X-franchise was doubtful, but given the weakness of films developed without his involvement, his return is now a welcomed bit of news among network execs. Word on the street is that producer Lauren Shuler-Donner has even promised to wait on moving ahead with X-Men 4 in hopes that Singer will helm that project as well.

Of course, with so many irons in the fire, can Singer really make good on all these projects? Probably not; something’s going to drop and hopefully it’s Jack the Giant Killer, a project that would be just fine in someone else’s hands.