Buffy supremo is website's choice for third film.

With Bryan Singer abandoning the X-Men film franchise in favour of the new Superman movie, the hunt is on for a director to helm the third mutant feature.

To aid producers in their task, the Cinescope website have held a poll and who should be voters' favourite choice for the task but Buffy, Angel and Firefly creator Joss Whedon.

Whedon captured 35 per cent of the vote, way ahead of Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy) – 15 per cent and James Cameron (Titanic) – 14 per cent.

Of course Whedon is no stranger to the X-Men universe – he performed an uncredited rewrite on the first film and is currently the writer of The Astonishing X-Men comic.

A little film called Serenity might however prevent him from accepting the job, should it be offered to him.