Brian Singer sounds salty over X-Men comparisons to Marvels success in building the Avengers.
http://www.scifinow.co.uk/news/x-mens-bryan-singer-versus-avengers-and-iron-man/“The Marvel universes – particularly Avengers and Iron Man – are… and it sounds defensive, and it is defensive, but only because people make comparisons between [X-Men: Days Of Future Past] and The Avengers, which is ludicrous.
“The Avengers is a mash-up of massive single character franchises of incredibly familiar characters and Iron Man. And did I mention Iron Man? Oh, and by the way – Iron Man.
“They are huge, colossal franchises that are peppered with all these other characters that are, again, extremely famous and so yes, Fox will at some point synergise [the X-Men] characters and that process is slowly beginning, but it’s very different than taking movies that gross close to a billion dollars and then pushing them together into these giant broad movies.
“If you want to give me Robert Downey Jr in a metal suit and have him join the X-Men, then yes, let’s go head-to-head [with Marvel Studios].â€
This comment is not only made months before release of Guardians of the Galaxy, but it completely ignores the fact that no one outside of comics knows SHIELD, Fury, Black Widow, or Hawkeye. No one outside of comics barely knew who Ironman or Captain America was, and the only reason Thor May have been known was due to confusion with Norse mythology. Hulk was the only popular character, and he had the lowest grossing movie and no sequel since.
X-men on the other hand have Wolverine, Cyclops, Prof. X, Magneto and more. There had plenty of opportunity and a large headstart to build something out of the X-Men and their 1000 characters. He instead decided to go make a Stuperman movie and let it all fall apart before they branched out.
Had he stuck around they had the whole X-Men Origins series with movies for Magneto, Storm and Prof X planned.he started off with the "Avengers" ensemble. There is no one to blame for not capitalizing than himself.
And thus pic couldn't be anymore appropriate, even if it should be Wolvie instead of Spidey.