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Matthew Vaughn isn’t exactly twiddling his thumbs waiting for his next big film project while currently working on his thirdKingsmanmovie, he has recently spoken about his history with theX-Menfranchise, notably the trilogy he was poised to helm starting with his critically successfulX-Men: First Classin 2011.
Although originally attached to 2006’sX-Men: The Last Standbefore eventually backing out,X-Men: First Classwas the first, and thus far, only X-Men movie Vaughn has worked on having decided to once again back out of 2014’sX-Men: Days of Future Pastcausing returning director and original visionary Bryan Singer to step back in.
However, Vaughn has revealed that he originally intended to introduce anX-Menmovie in between 2011’sFirst Classand 2014’sDays of Future Past.
Giving a reason as to why fans had never heard anything about this mystery movie prior to now, Vaughn explained that Fox’s decision to makeX-Men: Days of Future Pasta direct sequel toX-Men: First Classwas one of the reasons why Vaughn back out of the franchise.
With the plot being that this new movie would have focussed on a new younger Wolverine and his interactions with the characters he reintroduced fromX-Men: First Class, Vaughn made it clear thatDays of Future Pastwould have still happened but would have been his third in the franchise to both wrap up his trilogy and see it end with the climax of seeing the culmination of characters from the original trilogy and Vaughn’sFirst Classtrilogy.
The decision was made to go ahead withDays of Future Pastas the sequel toFirst Classonce Fox read Vaughn’s script and loved it so much, they wanted to fast-track it. Thus resulting in the likes of Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen and Halle Berry making their X-Men movie return one movie earlier than originally planned.
Fox’s reasoning to defend their decision was to say that whileX-Men: First Classwas both a critical and box office modest success with just under $146.5million worldwide, it is still the second-lowest grossing movie in the franchise just $16.5million ahead of 2013’sThe Wolverine, which incidentally was the X-Men movie in-betweenFirst ClassandDays of Future Past.
Meanwhile, despite the critical and fan response to the 2006X-Men: The Last Stand, the movie is still the highest grossingX-Menmovie outside of the Deadpool movies and third-highest grossing worldwide with $234.3million.
Fox gathered from these numbers that fans wanted to see the original cast return as soon as possible and this, along with the potential of the script, made the studio want to push forward with the crossover movie.
Vaughn’s younger Wolverine movie was reportedly hoping to approach Tom Hardy to portray the adamantium-clawed Mutant, a role which has become synonymous with Hugh Jackman since the movie franchise began in 2000. Hardy later went on to star as Eddie Brock in Sony’s 2018Venom.
While fans will most likely never see Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men trilogy as intended, the X-Men movies as we know them are about to be wrapped up withX-Men: Dark Phoenixhitting theatres next week.
Dark Phoenixstars Sophie Turner, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Evan Peters, Alexandra Shipp, Tye Sheridan, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Jessica Chastain.
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