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Simon Kinberg Addresses Directing Rumours for 'X-Men: Supernova,' Talks 'Apocalypse' Flaws

HaydnSpurrell HaydnSpurrell Recently, reports started spreading that Simon Kinberg is in talks with 20th Century Fox to both write and direct (in his debut at the helm) the next X-Men film, which is rumoured to be titled X-Men: Supernova. ComingSoon has sat down with Kinberg, and questioned him on the possibility of taking the top job on the film.

When posited by the interviewer that "they just announced you as the director...", Kinberg shuts it down. "They didn’t announce it, somebody broke a story about it that’s premature, but we have been talking about what the next X-Men movie would be since post-production on the last X-Men movie. We are prepping the film, can’t say much more than that, but we’re excited to get back into telling the story of the mainland X-Men.

" I’ve had the good fortune of working with a lot of good directors, from Bryan Singer to Ridley Scott to Sir Kenneth Branagh, and I’ve also had the opportunity to work with directors that aren’t as good and I learned a lot of lessons from those directors as well. I really like my job, I really like writing and producing movies. If that was my job for the rest of my life I’d be a very lucky man. My directorial style would probably be very similar to my writing and producing style, which is very collaborative."

Clearly, there's some careful word-play going on, which is fine and it's to be expected. But the absence of a denial is something, right? In any case, he also comments on the aftermath of X-Men: Apocalypse, which saw lukewarm reactions from fans and critics alike. "As the writer of it, I thought when we started the movie and when I wrote the movie that we were telling the story of a family splitting apart and coming back together. In the final movie its in there, but it’s a little buried, and the movie on the surface became about a guy who wanted to destroy the world.

"The guy that wanted to destroy the world is a superhero movie from 25, 30 years ago. Today’s superhero movies that we love the most –the “Dark Knight” movies, “Guardians of the Galaxy,” the first “Iron Man” movie, those are movies about human beings in relatable circumstances that happen to have super powers. I think “Apocalypse” became more about global stakes than human stakes. That’s the lesson I learned from the movie, that human and personal stakes always trump global stakes.

"It’s something that Bryan did, if you go back to the first “X-Men” movie, what Magneto’s trying to do is something global in scale, but ultimately it’s about saving Rogue. The movie is about Wolverine and Rogue, a guy who doesn’t want to be connected to anybody and a girl who’s lost. They find each other, and in finding each other they find each other with the X-Men. It was a brilliant way of telling that story. I think with “Apocalypse” we got away from that a little bit. Maybe we all got a little enamored in the possibility of seeing the world get destroyed and do some things in terms of scale and scope that we haven’t done in the X-Men movies. Scale and scope don’t matter. Audiences today know it’s fake, they’ve seen the world blow up a million times in video games and movies."

It's refreshing to hear an honest response to a poor result. While I didn't hate X-Men: Apocalypse, I found it to lack anything unique or fresh and the stakes never felt high enough for what it hoped to achieve. Here's hoping that Supernova can correct those wrongs.

Source: http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/818417-exclusive-simon-kinberg-tal...

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