Jamie Moss Hired To Write X-Men Origins: First Class

Following up from our post last night of Bryan Singer confirming that he has signed on to direct the new X-Men Origins: First Class movie.

THR is now reporting that Fox has hired a new screenwriter to work with Singer on developing the project: Jamie Moss, writer of the 2008 Fox Searchlight film Street Kings.

First Class is based on a Marvel Comics limited series written by Jeff Parker. Producer Lauren Shuler Donner has said “the movie focuses on the first class at Xavier’s school of the gifted, so only those mutants will be featured in the first movie,” by which she evidently means that we’ll see the early days of the original X-Men team.