X-Men: First Class Sequel Has It's Director

That is changing, and the quality of the recent films released by the studio has improved. Fox has just closed a deal with Matthew Vaughn to come back and direct the sequel to X-Men: First Class, with Simon Kinberg writing the script and Bryan Singer back as producer. The studio is so delighted with the job that Josh Trank did on the upcoming under-$20 million thriller Chronicle that he is being eyed for a big assignment, possibly the reboot of Fantastic Four.

The studio has made a priority of the sequel to last summer’s hit Rise of the Planet of the Apes, with Rupert Wyatt back behind the camera. Fox, after ending the year with the Cameron Crowe directed We Bought a Zoo, has the upcoming Ridley Scott-directed Prometheus; and the studio got Timur Bekmambetov to direct Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. That film was produced by Tim Burton, who will direct for the studio Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children, with a script being written by X-Men: First Class scribe Jane Goldman. This year, Fox has Ben Stiller directing and starring with Kristen Wiig in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, has Michael Mann directing Go Like Hell, the duel between Ford vs. Ferrari for sports car supremacy in the 60s; is readying the movie transfer of the hit series 24 with Kiefer Sutherland for late spring. Fox-based filmmaker Shawn Levy will soon set his next directing effort for the studio, likely to be the Max Landis-directed Frankenstein. The studio is currently in production on the Akiva Schaffer-directed Neighborhood Watch, with Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Jonah Hill starring.

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