The story so far: currently on the Fox slate are four X-Men projects in various states of development. Firstly, and likely to go into production next year, is X-Men: First Class, the story of the first year of Professor X's school. You can read more about that here. After that, the smart money is on Hugh Jackman returning in Wolverine 2, which is moving the action to Japan.

Also dotted around the development corridors of the X-Men movie universe are X-Men Origins: Magneto (which looks the least commercially sound of the projects, and thus the one least likely to get made, although writer David Goyer has expressed his belief that the project will get moving in 2010) and Deadpool, the Ryan Reynolds-headlined spin-off from this summer's Wolverine.

Producer Lauren Shuler-Donner has, however, been talking to Slashfilm as part of the promotional work for the release of Wolverine on DVD and Blu-ray, and has thrown two further names into the mix.

She's revealed that a full-on X-Men 4 is on her list of projects, as well as a New Mutants screen adventure. Of those two, X-Men 4 has yet to be pitched to the studio, she confirmed.

At the same time, she nixed the rumour - sparked by a Twitter post from actor Tim ‘Cyclops' Pocock - that First Class would be going before the cameras next year. She told the site that no start date has been confirmed for the project, and that it wouldn't begin filming in February as Pocock's Twitter post had implied.

Read more on these stories at Slashfilm right here.