Bryan Singer: Why I Challenged 'X-Men: First Class' Writing Credits (Exclusive) Jerod Harris/Getty Images for MySpace X-Men guru Bryan Singer is frustrated by a WGA decision over the writing credits for the summer tentpole X-Men: First Class.
“I don’t understand the decision but I will respect it,” Singer tells THR in his first public comments on the complicated arbitration that ended with Singer sharing “story by” credit with Sheldon Turner, who never officially worked on First Class. (The teams of Ashley Miller & Zack Stentz and Jane Goldman & Matthew Vaughn will share screenplay credit.) Bryan Singer on X-Men: First Class. X-MEN FIRST CLASS EXCLUSIVE: Bryan Singer on the Xavier/Magneto Relationship. Bryan Singer Discusses the Continuity of X-MEN: FIRST CLASS & it's Cast of Characters. The director of the first two X-Men films, and producer for First Class, touches upon the why certain mutants were included in the project, and how they will benefit the story.
X-Men First Class charts the epic beginning of the X-Men saga, and reveals a secret history of famous global events. Before mutants had revealed themselves to the world, and before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Not archenemies, they were instead at first the closest of friends, working together with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop Armageddon.
In the process, a grave rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto's Brotherhood and Professor X's X-Men.