Matthew Vaughn has walked away from directing the sequel to his and Fox’s X-Men: First Class. Deadline reports the studio’s top choice for directing is now Bryan Singer, who directed X-Men and X2 but not X-Men: The Last Stand (blame Brett Ratner for that one). Singer wrote the treatment for and produced X-Men: First Class. The treatment and producing duties for the sequel, titled X-Men: Days Of Future Past, were handled by Matthew Vaughn, meaning the two men may be swapping roles for the sequel.
Fox already has the script for X-Men: Days Of Future Past, and set to return is Fox’s First Class cast that includes Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy and Jennifer Lawrence. Fox hopes to make the July 18, 2014 release date it set for the sequel, but it will have to find a director quickly. [Deadline]
Matthew Vaughn left the project to direct another movie at 20th Century Fox, Secret Service, which is based on the comic book series by Mark Millar and Vaughn. Fox is going to have to hurry up and find a suitable director for X-Men: Days Of Future Past, and we know just the uniquely gifted fellow who can assist in their search:
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that kinda sucks…i enjoyed vaughns take a lot better than the singer movies and was looking forward to him continuing with the franchise…smh
Brian Singer is to Xman as Joel Schumacher is to Batman.
I’m sorry but no. Ratner and Schumacher match up a lot better. They both took over franchises that were fan favorites and managed to hide the fact they didn’t know what to do with it by cramming it with characters and references that made no sense in context. Shumacher was hamstrung by (figuratively) sucking the producer’s dicks and Ratner was occupied trying to suck his own.
Well, that means it’s going back to being boring and plodding… sad. Vaughn’s take was infinitely better than Singer’s two.
I honestly would rather see Bay get his hands on this over Singer….at least if someone’s going to massacre a franchise let it have attractive women in it…..
I’m sorry but Vaughn is kind of a hack. I know everyone likes him, but he has no personnality and no talent as a director. X-Men First Class was really badly directed, and so was Kick-ass, who managed nothing in my opinion other than just be a mash-up between Raimi’s Spider-man and Defendor. Aside from Chloe Moretz and Nic Cage, that movie was just a clusterfuck. Caracters made no sense, the lead is just glasses away from being a teen male model, and the girl just decide that it’s okay and not at all creepy that he lied to her. It’s just fan service and nerd fantasies crammed into a movie with no real sense of what it’s talking about.
I’m glad he’s out, that guy doesn’t derserve the praise, again in my opinion.I enjoyed Layer Cake, but then again it looked like a Guy Ritchie imitation. A good one, but still.
Also Stardust.
well by that logic; Superman Returns
Also Valkyrie
Great. More exposition about how its tough to be adopted and gay by the adopted gay man. X2 should’ve just been titled “Gay teens who become famous directors are sad about having been a gay teen.”