As we told you here last week, Director Bryan Singer is returning to Fox’s “X-Men” franchise with “X-Men: First Class.” Singer was going to direct the third “X-Men” movie when decided to jump ship and head to Warner Bros. to make the love it or hate it – “Superman Returns.” In a recent interview, Singer spoke about returning to the X-Men Franchise and about X-Men: First Class.

When asked about how he ended up coming back to “X-Men” – Singer said,

It started with a conversation between (Fox co-chairman) Tom Rothman and I some time ago. We not only concluded a deal, but I’ve written a pretty concise treatment. There’s a story that I really want to tell.

When pressed for details on the story – Singer stated,

I can’t tell you that; it’s secret. But it’s basically about the formation of the X-Men. How they began and the relationship between a young Xavier and a young Magneto.

With the original three, “Wolverine”, “Deadpool” and “Magneto” in the works, he was asked if he thought it was possible for the X-Men to exhaust themselves?

This story would probably utilize 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.

But no, I don’t see an exhaustion. The X-Men universe is boundless. These are great characters. And as young characters, they are quite different than the characters we have seen in the contemporary movies.