The inner fangirl in me is rejoicing in the confirmation of director Bryan Singer coming back to helm X-Men: First Class. The news sprung about through Twitter via Flick Chart. Here’s the ‘tweet’ for you to read below:

Bryan Singer just leaked that he’s directing the next X-men Origins film on the AVATAR “blue carpet”. What do you think about that?

Bryan Singer directed the first two X-Men films and then ended up jumping ship to direct the critically bashed Superman Returns. Singer recently directed the Tom Cruise starring Valkyrie and is already set to direct a Battlestar Galactica movie along with Jack the Giant Killer. Not entirely sure when X-Men: First Class will be on the plate for the director, but at this point it’s a huge sigh of relief for those who are big fans of most of the movie franchise and the comics themselves.

Update: All you have to do is click right on the Myspace Avatar Page. Click on “Next Slide” at the bottom left and then scroll forward to the 27-minute mark where he’s asked about what he has coming up next. He tells the interviewers without any hesitation and complete seriousness: “I’m ramping up to do a movie called ‘Jack the Giant Killer’ at Warner Bros, and I just yesterday signed a deal to do an ‘X-Men: First Class Origins’ picture, which is kind of cool. I’m very excited.” (Thanks to Coming Soon for being one of the few finding this bit of information)

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