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X-Men: First Class Director Wanted A Young Wolverine Movie Instead Of Days Of Future Past


Matthew Vaughn might have brought life back into 20th Century Fox's X-Men franchise with X-Men: First Class, however, it seems like the movie the English filmmaker actually wanted to make was one that involved a young Wolverine (Hugh Jackman).

Speaking in an interview with Collider, Vaughn decided to give out the reason why he decided to jump ship on X-Men: Days of Future past even though he had helped write the film.

"The reason I haven't done sequels in the past is they just weren't exciting me. And on Days of Future Past, even though I co-wrote the bloody thing, the reason I bailed out of it is two things: First, I respect Bryan Singer hugely and X-Men is Bryan's world and I feel he let me play in his sandbox. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't my sandbox. I wanted my own sandbox."

Vaughn's always loved his creative freedom, and the filmmaker also wasn't that interested in doing Days of Future Past.

"And, second, I didn't want to do Days of Future Past next. I felt that one should be in a trilogy and Days of Future Past should be the finale of that story. I would have done a film in-between where you meet the young Wolverine and a new character, and then Days of Future Past became the young Wolverine and the old Wolverine and just really blow it out."

Despite his trifles with the film, Vaughn thinks Singer managed to do a much better job with Days of Future Past, adding in things that he didn't place in his script that he thought was genius, like having Quicksilver (Evan Peters) breaking into the Pentagon instead of Juggernaut. We have to admit the scene did work pretty well and we're looking forward to X-Men: Dark Phoenix.

X-Men: Dark Phoenix is scheduled for release on November 2, 2018.

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