Matthew Vaughn helming a young Wolverine movie? Turns out it almost came to pass.
While out promoting his super-slick action sequel, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Vaughn sat down with Collider to discuss Eggsy’s latest globe-trotting adventure (our review). But between Man of Steel 2 and his history with the X-Men series, it didn’t take long before the conversation veered toward Hollywood’s superhero genre and sure enough, Matthew Vaughn revealed that he once considered carving out room for a young Wolverine film between First Class and Days of Future Past.
Of course, Vaughn ultimately bowed out of the latter tentpole, and subsequently handed the keys back over to X-Men mainstay Bryan Singer.
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,...
While out promoting his super-slick action sequel, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Vaughn sat down with Collider to discuss Eggsy’s latest globe-trotting adventure (our review). But between Man of Steel 2 and his history with the X-Men series, it didn’t take long before the conversation veered toward Hollywood’s superhero genre and sure enough, Matthew Vaughn revealed that he once considered carving out room for a young Wolverine film between First Class and Days of Future Past.
Of course, Vaughn ultimately bowed out of the latter tentpole, and subsequently handed the keys back over to X-Men mainstay Bryan Singer.
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,...
- 9/19/2017
- by Michael Briers
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