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What do Blair Waldorf, Ryan Atwood and Wolverine have in common? Not a whole lot—except Josh Schwartz. He was the executive producer of both “Gossip Girl” and "The O.C." and will be writing (and possibly directing) the next of the X-Men franchise.
The fourth film in the mutant franchise, “X-Men: First Class,” will focus on younger heroes still in school at the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning. Maybe FOX chose Schwartz because he intends to "inject a next-gen sensibility into the superhero series," as Variety calls it.
While he’s had much success on the small screen, this will be one of the 32-year-old writer-producer’s major steps onto the silver screen. He also wrote and directed “Looking for Alaska,” a Paramount film expected to be released in 2010.
FOX hopes to bring audiences back to a franchise that earned more than $1.2 billion worldwide, but has been quiet on the details of this film. The previous installment, the Brett Ratner-lead "X-Men: The Last Stand," collected $459 million in 2006.
Can Schwartz live up the the high "X-Men" standard? Maybe. If so, he will have instant credibility in the film world. If not, O.M.G. it's so over.
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