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Although he famously sat out directing X-Men: The Last Stand in favor of helming Superman Returns, Bryan Singer now says he's open to the idea of returning to the mutant movie franchise he spawned.

The Coventry Telegraph points out an interview that Singer did with Total Film where he addressed his departure from the X-Men franchise and his eagerness to rejoin it. "I'm eternally intertwined with X-Men now. What takes an audience four hours to watch -- the first two movies -- took six years of my life. So, to not be part of it... It's a shame," said Singer.

One X-Men project in-development that Singer says he would "possibly" consider directing is the Magneto prequel. "The only thing that concerns me about Magneto is that if the prequel were to follow the track I used in X-Men, which is Magneto's history in the concentration camp, then I've lived in that world," Singer explained.

But he added, "Apt Pupil, X-Men and now Valkyrie... I've lived in that Nazi universe for quite a while. I just might need to take a little break before I do something like that."