Bryan Singer is ready to make his comeback. Whether you or I actually want him back doesn’t seem to matter. The X-Men director has been a ghost since being essentially banned from Hollywood following years of various sexual assault allegations and reports of unprofessional on-set behavior. All of the projects he had been working on were shelved, and he hasn’t worked in the business since.
Variety reports that Singer is now speaking with potential investors about a number of different projects, the most glaring and problematic being a documentary that’ll give him a chance to address the assault allegations. Oooooh boy. Singer now lives in Israel, and the other films he’s eyeing would all shoot there as low-budget features. Obviously, Singer no longer commands the huge studio budgets that he used to.
So this is clearly not good. Even if the film is only released internationally, and I have no doubt that some producer somewhere would back Singer’s doc, giving the accused a platform like this to attack his accusers is unfair at the very least. It also cracks open the door for Singer to be acceptable again. I’ve long said that people like Singer, Louis C.K., Woody Allen, and others who have been accused of crimes deserve a chance to get their careers back. And we have the right to not want to have anything to do with them or their work.
