Days of Future Past "Director's Cut": The Official Matthew Vaughn Thread

[chaseter]

And I wasn't bashing this film, I was stating what I hope doesn't get put in. What is your point?

 

[FaT_tONle]

I don't know why it's so hard to comprehend that people are well aware of the history of Fox without you reminding them in every. single. post.

Honestly, for someone who's most likely going to spend the next 13 months finding reasons not to see the movie (while, you know...keeping it listed in your sig), you do seem to spend a lot time here complaining about it.

For the regulars on here... yes. For the casual people that aren't aware of the studio politics and stuff that happens behind the scenes, probably not. So just on the off chance that one of those people happens to snooping around the web and stumbles across these boards, wondering why this franchise has gone in the crapper, maybe it will shed some light for them. Just how you are still so preoccupied with what I put in my sig to point it out in every other post, I don't see any harm or foul in repeating what Fox has done with this franchise.

 

[JP]

Sweet Jesus, never mind.

 

[Electrix]

I don't see any harm or foul in repeating what Fox has done with this franchise.

I think you'll get bored with it at some point and find something more productive to do. There's still more than a year to go.

 

[FaT_tONle]

Probably... I figured we'd be getting the influx of casting news this month. Still might, but I honestly don't expect anything.

 

[RomyFan]

Hi! OMG, I hadn't been to this site in like 5 months! So I'm kinda lost when it comnes to the movie-verse!! (shame on me forever, I know). So could someone be so nice to tell me if this movie is confirmed, or what? And yeah I know I could browse through the site and find the information, but thst's why I'm asking the question to someone nice who would just tell me Thanks.

 

[chaseter]

Yes Romy this movie is confirmed and will be released in June of 2011 I do believe. Mathew Vaughn is directing and the script is being polished. No casting confirmations as of yet and no filming dates set as of yet.

 

[dark_b]

On a lighter note, Vaughn has a new daughter:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8684635.stm

I guess that puts to rest any talk of Vaughn doing First Class for the $$$

he is with Claudia Schiffer

you son of a b.....

 

[Electrix]

he is with Claudia Schiffer

you son of a b.....

He has a 3 young children and a supermodel wife. He's also wealthy and gets to direct an X-Men film.

I'm starting to dislike Vaughn now

 

[Iceman]

Dislike? t: I give you Brett Ratner..the guy who "saved the X-Men franchise"!

 

[Iceman]

well, I'm just happy to bet getting another X-Men movie and the possibilities for new characters, story, and action

my only worry is this turning into the Xavier & Magneto story featuring the X-Men...I want characters like Cyclops, Storm, & Beast to have a story, so we can know why Storm was afraid in X1 and why she was angry in X2 and what made Beast leave and go into politics...they touched a little on Jean's origin in X3, so I'm wondering if Singer/Vaughn going to elude to that

I'm being very optimistic about this film and not going to bash it until I see the final product...

Yeah, the Xavier & Magneto story is great & ultra-important but it's not the only thing that ever happened in X-Men land. I suppose by choosing a prequel as the next X-project they will have to use it. Could work out well if they show Magneto as the good guy for some of it.

 

[akfj]

Yeah, the Xavier & Magneto story is great & ultra-important but it's not the only thing that ever happened in X-Men land. I suppose by choosing a prequel as the next X-project they will have to use it. Could work out well if they show Magneto as the good guy for some of it.

I'm not sure the Xavier-Magneto relationship was originally supposed to be in this movie. That's what the Magneto movie was going to be about. With that movie cancelled, I think Singer saw an opportunity to add that story to this movie.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Yeah, the Xavier & Magneto story is great & ultra-important but it's not the only thing that ever happened in X-Men land. I suppose by choosing a prequel as the next X-project they will have to use it. Could work out well if they show Magneto as the good guy for some of it.

I think they HAVE to show Magneto as a good guy in this to keep things fresh, otherwise it would add nothing to franchise, I want Magneto to be a good guy until the very end when he does something that just splits him and Xavier right down the middle, like maybe, if the villain is a child, like Proteus or something, Xavier says he can help him but Magneto just kills him.

Or, the humans kill the villain and Magneto kills a whole bunch of them in revenge, something like this needs to happen in the movie for sure.

 

[Phoenix_Flare]

Hey does anyone know if the actual "First Class" comic is going to be an actual source for this movie??

I just ordered vol.1 of the comic today, and from the reviews I've read I don't think many fans like the retelling of the 616 early yrs., so my ? is are their any storylines from this comic line that can be used or do u think their gonna go with the 616 universe and just using "First Class" as the title??

 

[Squidboy]

I don't think it'll be the source - as in a direct adaptation of the comic. I think it'll have some of those elements, but it'll most likely be a combination of the original X-Men comics Stan Lee wrote, elements of Claremont's New Mutants, First Class, as well as a melding of story elements that Singer envisioned for the X-Men movies from the start. The title is just one of those cases of Marvel reusing their own titles for different purposes.

 

[Electrix]

I am going to bed to watch a film about Leningrad while my wife lies next to me dreaming up dialogue for mutants ! Da, comrades.

http://***********/Wossy/status/14716711277

Looks like Jane is in the UK working on the script.

Vaughn may be in the UK too following the birth of his daughter just over a week ago. (Not that i'm keeping track of their location or anything )

 

[Electrix]

1 year to go!

 

[JP]

WOOT!!!!

 

[Sawyer]

1 year to go!

Yay for rushed film schedules!!!

 

[JP]

Hm, is it really all that different then say, Captain America? I mean, Cap really only has 2 months more than First Class. It starts filming about a month earlier, and is released about a month after.

 

[Sawyer]

But with Cap, I have the feeling that Marvel Studios is actually putting some thought and care into it, as well as time. I rarely if ever get that feeling from Fox. I'd love for Matthew Vaughn to prove me wrong here, but... yeesh.

 

[JP]

That's true, but Fox doesn't put care and effort into anything.. ever. You think they put care and effort into Avatar? No, that was all Cameron. Same with the first two Singer films.

:/

 

[FaT_tONle]

I've always felt they got the ball rolling too late with Cap. With all the colorful characters they appear to be adding along with all the multi-connected plot branches, they just stalled too much. Filming should have been closer to wrapping up filming by now. FC is just an asinine schedule. Not only that, but the Planet of the Apes movie is going to be a disaster as well. Revolutionary monkey CGI in less than a year? Okay...

 

[Electrix]

'Inception' wake-up call -- 'X-Men: First Class' director jettisons similar dream-time scenes

Director Matthew Vaughn is hard at work on "X-Men: First Class" in London but he took some time out Sunday to catch a screening of "Inception." He enjoyed the Christopher Nolan epic immensely -- even though it prompted him to scrap a dozen pages of the "First Class" script.

"I saw 'Inception,' which I loved," Vaughn said Monday. "But my heart sank when I saw that a few of the ideas we had were up [on the screen]. So it's either leave it in and look as if you're copying or change things. We completely ripped out about 12 pages of the script and the storyboards."

X-Men projections The jettisoned sequence was a sort of dream-space combat, according to Vaughn; that reminded me of "psi war" scenes like the one here on the right from "The Uncanny X-Men" No. 117 way back in 1979, but the filmmaker said for the film the fight involving Professor X (James McAvoy) and some other mutants was to going to be presented with spinning rooms and other physics-bending imagery -- visions that he felt drifted too close to signature moments in "Inception," which has now piled up $363 million in worldwide box office and garnered some of the strongest reviews of any 2010 release.

The scramble to change the script adds to the flurry of activity on "First Class," which has gone through numerous revisions (there are six people with writing or story credits listed on IMDB, although that may change by the time it reaches the screen) and Vaughn only just inked the deal to direct in early May.

Vaughn is coming off of "Kick-Ass" (which hits DVD and Blu-ray this week, check back Tuesday for more on that) and says he is still adjusting to the idea of working for a major studio, Twentieth Century Fox, on the reboot of a huge special-effects franchise that has pulled in $1.5 billion in worldwide box office with three films and one spin-off in "X-Men Origins: Wolverine." "I'm an employee now," Vaughn said with a wry chuckle. "I'm not used to that."

"X-Men: First Class" is a franchise reboot that goes back to the younger days of Charles Xavier, a.k.a. Professor X, and Erik Lehnsherr, better known as Magneto and portrayed in this film by Michael Fassbender. The movie marks the return of Bryan Singer to the mutant saga; the director of the first two "X-Men" films is back as a producer on this project and he has a "story by" credit on the screenplay. The film is scheduled for a June 3, 2011 release in the U.S.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/her...t-class-forced-to-jettison-dream-scenes-.html

I never thought i'd say this but damn you Christopher Nolan!!!

 

[Electrix]

MTV: You have "Stardust" and "Kick-Ass" behind you now, and "X-Men: First Class" ahead of you. You're no stranger to adapting fan-favorite material, so how do you find the balance between making the film you envision and satisfying a very active, very vocal fan base?

VAUGHN: I'm a fan as well, and I like to watch these movies. And I, like any fan, am disappointed when the movies aren't quite as good as I hoped they would be. So I set the bar very high for quality. I try to always think about what I would want to see in the film, and how I can make the film better and make it appeal to me more. I'm that person in the audience watching the movie, hoping it's going to be one of the best movies I've seen. I want people to trust me, to believe that I care about it as much as they do. I set my own, personal bar pretty high.

http://splashpage.mtv.com/2010/08/02/matthew-vaughn-kick-ass-dvd-blu-ray-deleted-scenes-kick-ass-2/

This was in MTV's interview about Kick-Ass. The First Class interview will be coming soon I should think.