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Singer's 'First Class' to supersede 'Magneto'
Published Tuesday, Dec 22 2009, 10:05 GMT | By Simon Reynolds
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The director, who signed a deal to return to the superhero series last week, suggested to The Hollywood Reporter that his project's overlap with Magneto could mean that David Goyer's movie gets put on the back-burner.
"This story would probably utilise some of the Magneto story because it deals with a young Magneto, so it might supersede that because this would explore that relationship between a young energetic professor and a disenfranchised victim of the Holocaust," Singer explained.
The filmmaker said that he does not believe another X-Men movie, the franchise's fifth, will exhaust the Marvel characters on screen.
"I don't see an exhaustion. The X-Men universe is boundless," he added. "These are great characters. And as young characters, they are quite different than the characters we have seen in the contemporary movies."
> Singer reveals X-Men: First Class plot
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