When Matthew Vaughn gave the X - Men motion-picture show saga a reorganization with the prequel First Class , he had a grand design to usher in a new trilogy of young ten - hero . Then Kingsman blow up , and he choseto guide Eggsy and his friends over Charles Xaviers ’ merry variation . But what could ’ve been ? Something that sounds a lot more intriguing than what we ’ve got .
Speaking toComingSoonabout his decision to go with Kingsman and its subsequence The Golden Circle ( and itsupcoming prequel ) alternatively of stay on with the X - Men franchise after First Class , Vaughn revealed that his program for the mutants would ’ve go in a very different focus than jumping head - first into the iconic , time - traveling laughable saga of Days of Future Past .
While that finical plot line formed part of Vaughn ’s program , originally , he designate to carry on from First Class with another movie that allowed hearing to get to have sex this untried incarnation of Professor X , Magneto , Mystique , and more a little better — while also bringing in a Modern star to take on the role of a younger Wolverine , something the directorhas discussed before :
What could’ve been in an alternate timeline where we actually got to know these characters in a coherent manner?Image: 20th Century Fox
My design was First Class , then second motion-picture show was fresh young Wolverine in the 70 ’s to bear on those characters , my version of the X - Men . So you ’d really get to know all of them , and my close was gon na be twenty-four hours of Future Past . That was gon na be my number three where you bring them all … because what ’s openhanded than bringing in McKellen and Michael and Stewart and James and bringing them all together ? When I finished the Days of Future Past playscript with it quick to go I appear at it and say , “ I really guess it would be fun to cast Tom Hardy or someone as the untried Wolverine and then convey it all together at the close .
But part of Vaughn ’s conclusion to leave go - Men behind was n’t just because of Kingsman ’s success — but because Fox decided that his plan for Days of Future Past was so intriguing , they ’d start work on it immediately , becoming the 2d film in the new X - Men timeline … despite the fact it primarily revolves around a future jell after Bryan Singer ’s original X - Men trilogy .
Fox read Days of Future Past and went “ Oh , this is too good ! We ’re doing it now ! ” And I said , “ Well what do you do next ? Trust me you ’ve start out nowhere to go . ” Then they did Apocalypse and it ’s like … If you twitch that ’ round out even it would have been better . Hollywood does n’t read pacing . Their executives are drive 100 miles - per - hour looking in the rearward - opinion mirror and not realise why they doss .
Vaughn ’s right — not just because Apocalypse was adull - as - dishwatermovie , but because it feel like a strange place to go with these character after being confront with their next self in Days . So apace barrelling into a storyline like that without the time to get to know this younger rendering of the squad leads to what we have now , come in into a fourth 10 - Men flick where it feels like we still scarcely jazz wildly of import case like Jean Grey and Scott Summers . Which is defective , weigh this quaternary motion picture isanother adaptationof theDark Phoenix storyline !
Not like it matter now that Disney , in a Galactus - story move , has consumed Fox , regained the right to the X - Men , and is nowfully preparedto reboot the X - Men toeventually entanglethem in the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe canon . But still , when we count at where we ’ve arrived with tenner - Men : Dark Phoenix , it ’s hard not to think that Vaughn ’s plans for an X - Trilogy make a lot more sense than what we ’ve had without him .
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