Director Matthew Vaughn is quickly coming into his own as a filmmaker with the blockbuster touch. This week he continues the franchise world of irreverent super spies with “Kingsman: The Golden Circle,” he was one of the producers on the unfortunate “Fantastic Four” reboot, and it’s easy forget he was behind the camera for “X-Men: First Class.” Whether you enjoy his brand of spectacle or not, Vaughn knows how to sell popcorn, and has his own storytelling vision. In fact, after ‘First Class,’ he wanted to tell a different story before leaping to the narrative in “X-Men: Days Of Future Past.”
Speaking with Uproxx, Vaughn outlined his idea for putting another movie after ‘First Class,’ before rolling into ‘Future Past.’
“The reason I haven’t done sequels in the past is they just weren’t exciting me,” he said. “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. 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.”
It’s intriguing to think what could have been, and a few years back, Vaughn shared with Collider some of changes that Singer ultimately made to his ‘Future Past’ script.
“Bryan [Singer] did a few things, which I thought were genius that weren’t in my script. I had Juggernaut breaking into the Pentagon, he changed it to Quicksilver and did that fucking brilliantly, I have to add. My idea was the sentinels at the end, I wanted them to look like Mystique. I thought there should be thousands of Mystiques attacking them in the future. He changed a few more of the mutants, but it was pretty close,” he explained.
Meanwhile, Vaughn is ready to own up to the fact that 2015’s “Fantastic Four” simply didn’t work, and he’s hoping to get a shot at redemption.
“I wouldn’t mind maybe making a ‘Fantastic Four’ film to apologize to everyone out there that maybe it didn’t go very well for them. It’s brilliant. One of my favorites is the Fantastic Four, so maybe one day I’ll try and rectify the mistake,” he told CinemaBlend.
Well, you have to respect his honesty, though I’m guessing it’s going to be a while before we see the words “Fantastic Four” on a movie poster anytime soon.
“Kingsman: The Golden Circle” opens on Friday.