Producer Lauren Shuler Donner has been at the center of a lot of the recent comic book movie news. However, because of her position, she's not always able to give out all of the information at her disposal. Recently, while promoting the release of the X-Men Origins: Wolverine Blu-Ray DVD, Shuler said that she did not know what the next X-Men project for Fox would be:
"I think there are some wonderful storylines I'd like to pursue in X-Men 4 and 5, but who knows? Obviously, Fox is my partner, so we're in discussions about what will be next."
However, actors are not always as tight-lipped as executives, and twitter makes their musings available to the world. According to a recent tweet from Tim Pocock, the actor who portrayed Scott Summers in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X-Men: First Class will be up next:
"currently shooting Australian TV series till February 2010...then X-men first class ;)
7:27 PM Sep 14th from web
"victim of cruel prank.last tweet=NOT me.AM filming Aussie show till2010.no official word on XM:FC but am interested.please post retraction."
about 16 hours ago from web
Was it really a prank or did Fox come down hard on Pocock for leaking the news? I guess we'll have to wait and see...
UPDATE 2: Lauren Shuler Donner says that there's no truth to Tim Pocock's initial claim and that there's no chance of XMFC shooting in February. She also said that no actors were signed to appear in XMFC, but that all of the young mutants who appeared in XMOW are under option for additional films.