Edited sentence: According to this article, Sony is making a movie called Zoom, a comedy that includes elements that parodies the X-Men franchise.Brett Ratner was selected to replace Singer.Director Bryan Singer, who was responsible for the success of the first two X-Men movies, was not rehired for this movie, and in fact Ratner had him was escorted out of Fox Studios by Fox security.Extremely overrated actress Halle Berry, whose role as Storm in X-Men and X2 was disappointing and whose solo super-hero movie Catwoman single-handedly killed that franchise, has been given the central role in this movie.Fox is sueing Sony to change the release date, but if they fail, Zoom's release could hurt X3.He looked like a fool when Singer made not one but two successful X-Men movies, and has held a grudge against him since then.Information coming from sources inside Fox Studios and reported in this article led fans to expect that this movie will be a complete failure.Juggernaut is being given a role reminiscent of the unpopular one Sabertooth played in the first X-Men story.Nightcrawler, the most popular newcomer of X2, was not renewed for this movie.Other popular mutants who are being moved in the background or killed off include Mystique, Professor X, Gambit and Cyclops.Ratner was an outspoken opponent of the X-Men franchise, and on several occasions stated that he believed the first movie would fail.That movie is scheduled to be released just two weeks before X3.The Dark Phoenix storyline that Singer has been setting up for X-Men 3 by including clues in the first two movies, has been dropped, in favour of a remake of the plot of X-Men 2: an anti-mutant individual develops a serum to “cure” mutants.The most important reasons given are:.Wolverine, arguably the most popular X-Men in both the comics and the first two movies, has been given a background role in this movie, and will act mostly as a love interest for Halle Berry