Producer Lauren Shuler Donner has revealed plans on trying to revive the X-Men franchise. She has yet to pitch her idea to 20th Century Fox but it could lead a fourth film. A lot of X-Men fans hated the last film and I doubt Brett Ratner will be asked to return. Bryan Singer seems to be interested in making another X-Men film but hasn't named X4 as being one. I'm sure the studio and producers would try to get him to return. The other issue would be the script and story itself. Having David Hyter (Watchmen, X2), Zack Penn (X1-3) and Christopher McQuerrie (Wolverine 2) collaberate to develop a soild script could be key to a great film. It could eventually lead to another movie or two. The X-Men universe is worth developing if the talent and effort is there.
Possible replacement directors could be Zack Synder (Watchmen) or Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire). Synder was originally attached to Wolverine but had to leave to take on Watchmen instead. He would bring a lot of credibility to the franchise and fans would more than likely embrace his involvement. Boyle was rumored for Wolverine 2 and is producing a new Judge Dredd movie. He also has worked closely with the studio over the years. While I'd rather see Boyle take on Wolverine 2 he could make a decent run at an X-Men film.
Possible Storyline
The covert government operation which was started by Col. William Striker to have mutants registered could lead to someone taking up his work. Developing it into the Sentinel program and creating Master Mold. A super intelligent cyborg who builds an army of robots programed to hunt down and capture dangerous mutants. A Sentinel was shown in X3 during the training program in the danger room. If one was tough to take down one, imagine a whole army of them.
Bolivar Trask the inventor of the Sentinels appeared in X3 and was played by Bill Duke (Predator). If he has already been aserted as being an established character it could make sense that they would bring him back.
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