The folks over at /Film got to talk to X-Men franchise producer Lauren Shuler Donner about the future projects with the group of mutants. Here is what she had to say on the subject matter:
According to Shuler Donner, there’s no truth to the initial claim at all. She announced that the film has no scheduled start date and will definitely not be kicking off in February. What’s more, she confirmed that no actors have signed contracts to appear in the film.
As well as the eventual New Class, then – whenever that might be – Shuler Donner revealed that she has been cooking up plans for several other mutant films. The two she named? An X4, reuniting the X-Men and a big screen outing for The New Mutants. X4, she said, had yet to be pitched to the studio, however.
This report here quickly throws out the notion of X-Men: First Class filming early next year in a previous article. The X-Men adaptations have spanned on for almost a decade, starting off with Bryan Singer’s first film in 2000. What continued on was not only the blossoming of a lucrative franchise but a starting off point for the full blast of comic book adaptations that still continue on. Whatever latest step they will take on the popular X-Men movie franchise, we’ll keep you up to date here on Atomic Popcorn.
