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| X-Men Director Bryan Singer |
News is spreading around the Internet today about an unsavory legal situation pertaining to X-Men director
Bryan Singer. As a person who doesn't follow Mr. Singer's career closely, I am still very familiar with him and his work. As excited as I am to still see X-Men: Days of Future Past in just 5 weeks, it is disheartening to learn that a lawsuit has been brought against Bryan, and the cynic in me cannot get over the itch related to the
timing of this 15 year-old allegation. And that's what this is, an allegation. They have to go to trial to determine the facts and evidence in this case, and if he's then found guilty, that would be up to the judge and jury. I hope this is all just a horrible mistake, this is terribly embarrassing and this could have a significant impact on the box office performance of X-Men: DOFP. The PR for 20th Century Fox must be in crisis management mode at the moment. This is not good PR. It does push the film title to the forefront of web internet chat today, but will some of those people take the next step and hold this lawsuit against Singer and not go see X-Men? Some scandalous PR don't harm films much (out of wedlock babies, affairs, videotaped saying some un-PCish, etc), but there are straight-up taboo topics that is the stuff of nightmares for PR teams: This allegation against Singer is said nightmare scenario, times 10.
As I wrote last week, this X-Men film is the most expensive of all the films in this franchise, and it
MUST do well to justify continuing the franchise on this scale. I would not put it past a rival studio to be behind the pursuit of this lawsuit. Why? They would have a lot to gain to have this film fail, and try to ruin Mr. Singer's reputation. The timing is worth noting too - I mean, come on, really? The movie comes out in just a month! I just get the
heebie jeebies thinking about this situation. Again, no one but the accused and the defendant know what is true, and in the meanwhile, I'm going to continue to support the film and it's principle actor, Michael Fassbender and hope the movie does well at the box office.
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